Data Scientist II

Microsoft is on a mission to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Our culture is centered on embracing a growth mindset, a theme of inspiring excellence, and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day. In doing so, we create life-changing innovations that impact billions of lives around the world. You can help us achieve our mission.

Cloud Operations + Innovation (CO+I) is the organization that powers Microsoft’s core cloud platforms and services that millions of people use every day. With more than 95% of Fortune 500 business on Azure, 180 million using Office 365, and millions using other services – all running on Microsoft's cloud infrastructure, CO+I builds and operates the foundation upon which Microsoft’s mission to empower every person and organization comes to life. 

The Datacenter Integration Services (DCIS) team is part of CO+I. The DCIS vision is to ensure Microsoft can deploy and operate cloud infrastructure for any offering, at any time, in any location, at any scale. DCIS is a core team that is integral to the planning, development, deployment, and intelligent operations of innovative technologies and offerings such as immersion cooling, the fastest public cloud supercomputers and for customers running their mission critical workloads or providing unique AI offerings such as Azure OpenAI service. The DCIS leadership team deeply believes in Microsoft’s core values of Respect, Integrity & Accountability and each team member lives by Microsoft’s leadership principles to Create Clarity, Generate Energy & Deliver Success. Each of us is expected to model-coach-care with and for each other. 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.

The DCIS Strategy & Data team is looking for a Data Scientist II to provide deep, data-driven insights into datacenter operations processes and systems that will inform strategy in key areas. Ideal candidates will have technical skill, business domain knowledge, and the ability to explain findings and concepts in plain language to a variety of business stakeholders at multiple organizational levels. Candidates will be able to work in an applied manner from concept through execution and will be able to drive and affect impact with their work.  Your work will shape and impact outcomes in a variety of domains within datacenter process, operations, systems, and strategy. In our evolving cloud business, constant growth in both scale and complexity makes this an exciting opportunity to transform how we grow Microsoft's cloud infrastructure.

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.

• This role is located either in one or all hub locations - Atlanta, GA, Washington, D.C., Redmond, WA, San Antonio, TX or Phoenix, AZ. 
• Relocation support will be provided, and successful candidates must ​relocate or reside within 50 miles of the hub office location. 
• This role is eligible for hybrid or remote work, up to 100%. 

Responsibilities

• Explore and analyze data to supply meaningful insights on a wide range of organizational processes.
• Communicate with technical and non-technical audiences and contribute modeling expertise as a team player.
• Partner with teams to identify and explore opportunities for the application of machine learning and predictive
• Influence across disciplines and teams to ensure we are making data-driven decisions and solving critical problems for our customers.
• Design, prototype, implement and test descriptive, predictive analytics, forecasting, and causal inference models.
• Bring relevant data into a central system to create a single version of the truth.
• Build and deploy visualizations that deliver insights to decision-makers at an array of levels, from executives to front-line staff.
• Mentor