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 and we need you as a Senior Datacenter Planning Analyst.
Microsoft’s Cloud Operations & Innovation (CO+I) is the engine that powers our cloud services. As a CO+I Senior Datacenter Planning Analyst, you will perform a key role in delivering the core infrastructure and foundational technologies for Microsoft’s online services including Bing, Office 365, Xbox, OneDrive, and the Microsoft Azure platform. As a group, CO+I is focused on the personal and professional development for all employees and offers trainings and growth opportunities including Career Rotation Programs, Diversity & Inclusion trainings and events, and professional certifications. Our infrastructure is comprised of a large global portfolio of more than 100 datacenters and 1 million servers. Our foundation is built upon and managed by a team of subject matter experts working to support services for more than 1 billion customers and 20 million businesses in over 90 countries worldwide.
With environmental sustainability and optimization at the forefront of our datacenter design and operations, we continue to grow and evolve as we meet the ever-changing business demands that hold Microsoft as a world-class cloud provider.
Do you want to empower billions across the world? Come and join us in CO+I and be at the forefront of the action!
Responsibilities:
Understanding the Business
- Applies in-depth knowledge of the business to proactively identify and address business concerns. Takes measures to determine scope and impact to develop appropriate solutions, builds and leverages connections between their business and Microsoft’s other business areas, clearly articulates connections between internal business topics and relevant external trends, and includes key stakeholders in scoping process. Seeks out opportunities to coach others to broaden business knowledge.
Expertise in Data
- Establishes themselves as an expert in data types and sources relevant to business needs, and shares expertise to guide others. Evaluates sufficiency of data for answering business questions between internal and external sources, and works to identify, anticipate, and address gaps and data quality issues with data providers; drives action to source additional data as needed, and leverages relevant frameworks from others teams. Collaborates with Engineering teams to build needed data pipelines or integrations to address business needs and develops and advises other analysts on ideal ways to present and discuss data to influence business stakeholders’ decision making.
Data Analysis
- Applies expertise in data, business, and customer/client needs to determine optimal analytical tools and techniques, and leads others through the execution of analyses to resolve analytical challenges, interpret results within a business context, and address business questions with actionable insights and recommendations. Identifies gaps in analytical tools, provides feedback on features and/or functions, and recommends changes for Engineering or Data Science teams to improve tools, and/or techniques with the goal of ensuring that outputs align with business needs.
Presentation of Results
- Develops and guides others’ work on presentations of analyses, including dashboards, reports, data visualizations, self-service platforms, slides, and talking points that synthesize insights into a story that influences senior stakeholders’ decision making and drives business outcomes. Actively supports efforts to improve efficiency of reporting and presentations, and guides others to ensure presented results are accessible, provide information accurately, clearly, and appropriately in a relevant and timely manner to influence decision making for intended audience(s).
Evaluation
- Determines preferred factors and/or data types to include in the evaluation of business, product, and/or operational decisions that will provide the most relevant assessment of impact. Independently ensures that evaluations account for anticipated risks and applies learnings from previous evaluations. Proactively synthesizes and connects results across evaluation instances and identifies relevant connections to other work to make recommendations that drive achievement of strategic business goals.
Orchestration and Collaboration
- Establishes and leverages working relationships within and across teams to ensure quality data sources, methodologies, and analytical tools and processes; driving their adoption to address business needs and deliver key insights and results. Proactively seeks to leverage resources and solutions that were instrumental to success in similar contexts, and shares expertise across teams to inform decisions related to analyses, insights reporting, and the interpretation of results.
Improvement, Efficiency, and Innovation
- Drives the implementation of methods that create efficiency in core work related to analytics and reporting that are reusable, readily discoverable, self-service, and directed to meaningful interpretation of data that drive business decisions and impact across teams. Determines and socializes optimal and innovative methods for standardizing, sharing, and scaling insights. Evaluates the viability of implementing automation for patterns of ad hoc analyses or reporting into standard practices, and shares thought leadership in partnership with Engineering or Data Science teams to develop and implement automated methods for use in data collection and analysis that are most relevant to addressing business needs.
Other
- Embody our culture and values
Qualifications:
Required/Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Analytics, Engineering, Computer Science, Marketing, Business, Economics or related field AND 7+ years experience in data analysis and reporting, business intelligence, or business and financial analysis
- OR Master’s Degree in Mathematics, Analytics, Engineering, Computer Science, Marketing, Business, Economics or related field AND 5+ years experience in data analysis and reporting, business intelligence, or business and financial analysis
- OR equivalent experience
- 5+ years of experience in project scheduling and analysis on a construction portfolio
- 5+ years of experience developing PowerBI reports, T-SQL queries and DAX
- Proven experience in converting business requirements into data
Other Requirements:
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.
Preferred/Additional Qualifications:
- Experience with EPC or Data Center construction programs.
- Proven knowledge of project scheduling software tools such as Primavera P6 and Microsoft Project.
- Ability to present data from detailed to high-level depending on audience.
- Familiarity with schedule risk analysis techniques and tools.
Business Analytics IC5 – The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $124,800 – $242,600 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $159,000 – $264,000 per year.
Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay
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. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. 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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