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Cloud Operations + Innovation (CO+I) is the organization behind one of the world’s largest cloud infrastructures, responsible for powering all Microsoft online Products and Services as well as enabling Microsoft’s “Cloud First” mission. Our team is focused on smart growth, operational efficiency, and delivering a trusted, world‑class experience to customers and partners globally. We are looking for passionate, high‑energy analytics professionals to help us achieve that mission. If you want to have a fundamental impact on how Microsoft’s cloud is deployed and operated worldwide, be part of one of the most strategically critical teams at Microsoft, and bring strong technical and business acumen, leadership, creativity, and out‑of‑the‑box thinking - this role is for you. We are looking for an exceptional Data Scientist to collaborate closely with our data science and engineering teams to build advanced analytics solutions that improve data center capacity delivery. In this role, you will partner with cross‑functional stakeholders to shape business requirements, drive standardization of inputs, and help define a long‑term analytical vision that influences how Microsoft delivers cloud capacity at scale.
Job Responsibility:
Build scalable data assets (dashboards, underlying data models, and workflows) to provide reliable and high velocity decision support
Oversee the lifecycle of analytics artifacts from data analysis, creation to deployment, and ensure robustness and scalability
Assist with extract transform load (ETL), address data quality issues, apply the right analysis techniques and leverage the right data exploration technologies and tools
Build end-to-end Business Intelligence (BI) Solutions: Own business customer relationship, BI reporting, Data Quality/Security aspects by adopting standard architectural standards
Apply statistical methods, causal inference, and machine learning to inform data center business decisions, and optimize our processes and systems
Deeply understand the data center delivery cycle and underlying data to support leadership and stakeholders make data-driven decisions and continuous process improvements
Partner closely with cross functional stakeholders to build and deliver world-class support and data insights
Guide business leaders with confidence in your analytics and reporting to ensure smooth execution
Collaborate with stakeholders to take an ambiguous business problem statement, refine the scope, conduct the analysis, and use the results to drive informed decisions
Summarize and clearly communicate data analysis assumptions and results
Mentor and support the growth of colleagues, stay current with advances in analytics, and foster a culture of learning and innovation
Requirements:
Doctorate in Data Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Econometrics, Economics, Operations Research, Computer Science, or related field
OR Master's Degree in Data Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Econometrics, Economics, Operations Research, Computer Science, or related field AND 1+ year(s) data-science experience (e.g., managing structured and unstructured data, applying statistical techniques and reporting results) or consulting experience
OR Bachelor's Degree in Data Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Econometrics, Economics, Operations Research, Computer Science, or related field AND 2+ years data-science experience (e.g., managing structured and unstructured data, applying statistical techniques and reporting results)
OR equivalent experience
Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements
Pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter
Nice to have:
Doctorate in Data Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Econometrics, Economics, Operations Research, Computer Science, or related field AND 1+ year(s) data-science experience
OR Master's Degree in Data Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Econometrics, Economics, Operations Research, Computer Science, or related field AND 3+ years data-science experience
OR Bachelor's Degree in Data Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Econometrics, Economics, Operations Research, Computer Science, or related field AND 5+ years data-science experience
OR equivalent experience
2+ year(s) hands-on experience in SQL queries
2+ year(s) hands-on experience in a data visualization tool like Power BI
2+ year(s) hands-on experience in AI, ML or statistical modeling
2+ year(s) hands-on experience in data acquisition/ETL