Data Analyst

In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day. Cloud Operations + Innovation (CO+I) is the team behind one of the World’s largest Cloud Infrastructures, responsible for powering all Microsoft online Products and Services as well as powering Microsoft’s “Cloud First” mission. Our focus is on smart growth, high efficiency, and delivering a trusted experience to customers and partners worldwide, and we are looking for passionate, high-energy program managers to help achieve that mission. If you want to have fundamental impact on how Microsoft’s Cloud is deployed and operated globally, want to be involved with one of the most strategically important teams at Microsoft, have strong technical and business acumen, leadership, creativity, and out of the box thinking are some of the skills you bring to the table - this job is for you! We are looking for an exceptional Business Intelligence Analyst who can apply in-depth knowledge of the business, its data landscape, and the lineage of those data to proactively identify opportunities to explore and address business questions across multiple areas.

In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day.

Responsibilities

· Clean, analyze, and visualize a variety of capacity delivery data to identify opportunities, insights, and anomalies.

· Develop automated dynamic Power BI reports and dashboards to support key business functions and initiatives.

· Own Extract, Transform and Load (ETL), data validations, and documentation to support your and others’ analyses

· Compile comprehensive and accurate client facing reports on a timely basis

· Guide business leaders with confidence in your analytics and reporting to ensure smooth execution.

· Summarize and clearly communicate data analysis assumptions and results.

· Collaborate with stakeholders to take a vague problem statement, refine the scope of the analysis, and use the results to drive informed decisions.

· Collaborate with Power Apps and Automate developer to deliver integrated solutions that enhance team productivity.

· Support day-to-day operations with ad-hoc analysis

Qualifications

Qualifications:

· 5+ years of experience in Data Analytics/Business Intelligence or related roles

· Strong working knowledge of SQL, including the ability to write complex queries and procedures to extract or transform data from various sources.

· Advanced skills in Excel, including the ability to perform data analysis using advanced functions, such as power pivot, data validation, and macros.

· Strong proficiency in Power BI, including the ability to create effective and efficient data models, design and develop interactive dashboards, reports, and data visualizations, and utilize DAX and other advanced functions to support comprehensive analysis and data-driven decision-making.

· Strong problem-solving skills to help refine problem statements and solve them with the available data

· Experience with data cleansing and normalization.

· Possess strong awareness of changes to data privacy requirements and maintenance, responsible and ethical data handling practices, and ensuring classification and governance of rules and regulations are consistently applied in work activities and results.

· Excellent interpersonal, communication and presentation skills.

· Ability to navigate ambiguity, solve complex challenges, and operate in a fast-paced team environment.

Preferred Qualifications:

· Experience in driving execution with hyper-scale cloud engineering groups preferred.

· Python and R coding skills preferred

· Data Architecture experience preferred

The ideal candidate possesses the following:

· Bachelor’s degree in Statistics, Economics, Mathematics, Computer Science, or a related quantitative field

· Experience setting up, building and maintaining production data pipelines

· Experience starting large analytic projects and collaborating with teams across global and functions

· Experience solving business problems and using mathematical techniques using available data

· Ability to embody Microsoft’s Culture and Values

Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to, the following specialized security screenings: Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.

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