Senior Data Scientist
MicrosoftAbout the role
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 trusted experience to customers and partners worldwide, and we are looking for passionate, high-energy analytics professionals to help achieve that mission.
If you want to have fundamental impact on how Microsoft’s Cloud is deployed and operated globally, be involved with one of the most strategically important teams at Microsoft, have technical and business acumen, and leadership, creativity and out-of-the-box thinking are some of the skills you bring to the table - this job is for you!
We are looking for a Senior Data Scientist to collaborate with our data science and engineering teams to build solutions that improve our data center delivery cycle time. As a Senior Data Scientist, you will partner with various teams to develop business requirements to standardize the business input and develop a long-term vision.
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.
Responsibilities
- Build scalable data assets (dashboards, underlying data models, and workflows) to provide reliable and high velocity decision support
- 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.
- Apply statistical methods, causal inference, and machine learning to inform data center business decisions, and optimize our processes and systems.
- Develop and implement innovative solutions to increase the quality of data products and support interactions.
- 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.
- Oversee the lifecycle of analytics artifacts (e.g., models, dashboards) from data analysis, creation to deployment, and ensure robustness and scalability.
- Collaborate closely with product development and engineering teams to deploy high-quality analytics solutions.
- Mentor and support the growth of colleagues, stay current with advances in analytics, and foster a culture of learning and innovation.
- Embody our Culture and
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