Senior Business Analyst

• Partner with stakeholders across CO+I to gather business requirements and translate them into analytical frameworks, dashboards, and reporting solutions.
• Analyze operational, financial, and performance data to identify trends, risks, and opportunities that inform leadership decisions.
• Support executive review rhythms (e.g., fundamentals reviews, planning cycles) by developing insights, summaries, and data narratives.
• Contribute to the design and evolution of platforms such as OKR tracking, budget planning, and datacenter insights hubs.
• Build and maintain data models, queries, and reports using tools such as Power BI, Excel, Fabric, or similar analytics platforms.
• Drive data quality and governance practices by collaborating with data owners and engineering partners.
• Create clear documentation, visualizations, and presentations that communicate insights to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Identify opportunities to automate manual reporting processes and improve operational efficiency through scalable solutions.

Required/minimum qualifications

• Master's Degree in Mathematics, Analytics, Engineering, Computer Science, Marketing, Business, Economics or related field AND 3+ years experience in data analysis and reporting, business intelligence, or business and financial analysis
  
  • OR Bachelor's Degree in Statistics, Finance, Mathematics, Analytics, Engineering, Computer Science, Marketing, Business, Economics or related field AND 4+ years experience in data analysis and reporting, business intelligence, or business and financial analysis
  • OR equivalent experience.

Background Check 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.

Additional or preferred qualifications

• Master's Degree in Mathematics, Analytics, Engineering, Computer Science, Marketing, Business, Economics or related field AND 6+ years experience in data analysis and reporting, business intelligence, or business and financial analysis
  • OR Bachelor's Degree in Statistics, Finance, Mathematics, Analytics, Engineering, Computer Science, Marketing, Business, Economics or related field AND 8+ years experience in data analysis and reporting, business intelligence, or business and financial analysis
  • OR equivalent experience.
• Experience with the Microsoft Fabric ecosystem, including, but not limited to the development and maintenance of Fabric Notebooks, Lakehouses and Delta tables, Semantic Models, Power BI Reports and Dashboards, AI/ML modeling within Fabric, Prompt engineering, Data Pipelines
  
  • OR equivalent experience.
• Experience building solutions with the Power Platform, including but not limited to Power Apps, Power Automate Microsoft Dataverse
  
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 2+ years of business strategy and product management.
• 2+ years of experience with large-scale distributed systems.
• 2+ years of experience building dashboards, writing queries and analyzing structured and unstructured data.

Business Analytics IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $106,400 - $203,600 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 $137,600 - $222,600 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

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.