Overview
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.
We are looking for an exceptional Data Analyst / Power BI 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.
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!
Responsibilities
- Clean, analyze, and visualize a variety of Data Center telemetry data to identify opportunities, insights, and anomalies.
- Develop automated dynamic 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.
- Partner with Data Engineers to identify and scope integrations of new value-add datasets
- Support day-to-day operations with ad-hoc analysis
This role is based in Singapore and offers a hybrid model of x3 days a week in office
Qualifications
- Strong working knowledge of SQL programming, 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 create and manipulate complex financial models and perform data analysis using advanced functions, such as pivot tables, data validation, and macros.
- Strong working knowledge of Power BI, including the ability to design and develop interactive dashboards, reports, and data visualizations to support analysis and decision-making.
- Strong problem-solving skills to help refine problem statements and solve them with the available data
- Experience driving execution with hyper-scale cloud engineering groups preferred.
- 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.
In addition, the ideal candidate will possesses the following:
- Power BI and Tableau data visualization experience
- Python and R coding skills
- Data Architecture experience
- 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.
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