Microsoft · 3 hours ago
Core Datacenter Services Business Analyst
Redmond, WA
Full-time
Hybrid
Mid, Senior Level
$85K/yr - $170K/yr
3+ years expMicrosoft is a leading technology company committed to an inclusive work environment. They are seeking a Business Analyst for the Core Datacenter Services team to improve availability and efficiency for Microsoft's cloud business, focusing on data analysis, evaluation, and collaboration across teams.
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Responsibilities
Determines appropriate analytical tools and techniques to address business questions, executes analyses and interprets results with actionable recommendations, and partners to build on others' frameworks
Determines factors and/or data types to include in the evaluation of the impact of business, product, and/or operational decisions with little or no guidance
Ensures that evaluations can account for anticipated risks and applies learnings from previous evaluations
Analyzes and reports results or expected outcomes, and identifies relevant recommendations and/or connections to results of other work
Leverages appropriate types of data and/or metrics, determines alignment with business needs and whether to integrate additional data
Identifies and takes steps to address gaps and/or quality issues in data with data providers, in partnership with other teams
Applies data governance standards to solutions with guidance and understands how security (encryption, role restrictions) are aligned with company policy
Recommends efficiency improvements for core work related to analytics and reporting that are reusable, self-service, and directed to meaningful interpretation of data and driving business decisions
Evaluates the viability of automated methods including efficiency gains that leverage AI for use in reporting, and/or analysis and makes recommendations for whether to make them standard practices
Works within and across teams to deepen expertise in data sources, methodologies, analytical tools and processes, and business and client needs, to facilitate relevant insight generation, reporting, and interpretation
Engages stakeholders to identify and act on opportunities to leverage resources and solutions that were instrumental to success in similar contexts, and consults across teams on decisions related to analyses, insights reporting, and/or their interpretations
Develops appropriate presentations that tell stories of analyses, including dashboards, reports, data visualizations, self-service platforms, slides, and talking points
Ensures presented results are accessible, provide information accurately and clearly, and appropriately speak to the needs of the intended audience(s)
Recommends and makes improvements to presentations as appropriate
Develops a solid understanding of the business across multiple areas, considers relevant external trends, anticipates business problems, and probes for insight to understand problems beyond stated concerns
Begins to connect themes across internal work activities and relevant external trends and anticipates potential business questions
Qualification
Required
Master's Degree in Mathematics, Analytics, Engineering, Computer Science, Marketing, Business, Economics or related field AND 3+ years experience in data analysis and reporting, business intelligence, or business and financial analysis
Bachelor's Degree in Statistics, Finance, Mathematics, Analytics, Engineering, Computer Science, Marketing, Business, Economics or related field AND 4+ years experience in data analysis and reporting, business intelligence, or business and financial analysis
equivalent experience
Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role
Preferred
Master's Degree in Mathematics, Analytics, Engineering, Computer Science, Marketing, Business, Economics or related field AND 6+ years experience in data analysis and reporting, business intelligence, or business and financial analysis
Bachelor's Degree in Statistics, Finance, Mathematics, Analytics, Engineering, Computer Science, Marketing, Business, Economics or related field AND 8+ years experience in data analysis and reporting, business intelligence, or business and financial analysis
equivalent experience
Benefits
Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.
Company
Microsoft
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