Senior Data Analyst
Role Overview
The Office of the Chief Economist uses economists, data scientists, analysts, and engineers to inform decisions across Microsoft's businesses.
The analyst partners with teams including Microsoft 365 and Azure to identify opportunities and deliver insights for measurable business decisions.
The work includes descriptive and statistical analysis, visualization, reusable analytical tools, and collaboration on prediction, causal inference, and experimentation.
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Role overview
The Office of the Chief Economist uses economists, data scientists, analysts, and engineers to inform decisions across Microsoft's businesses.
The analyst partners with teams including Microsoft 365 and Azure to identify opportunities and deliver insights for measurable business decisions.
The work includes descriptive and statistical analysis, visualization, reusable analytical tools, and collaboration on prediction, causal inference, and experimentation.
Responsibilities
- Translate ambiguous business questions into analytical problems and plans; communicate evidence, assumptions, and trade-offs to stakeholders.
- Analyze large datasets using SQL and Python or R; apply statistical methods to diagnose outcomes and generate actionable insights.
- Build scalable Power BI semantic models with DAX and dimensional modeling; maintain shared metrics and business logic.
- Design impact evaluations with hypotheses, success metrics, guardrails, and result interpretation.
- Create reusable analytical tools and data products; collaborate with economists, data scientists, engineers, and business teams.
Required qualifications
- Master's degree in a listed or related field plus at least two years of relevant experience, or bachelor's degree in a listed or related field plus at least four years, or equivalent experience.
- Relevant fields include mathematics, statistics, analytics, data science, engineering, computer science, business, and economics.
- Strong quantitative and programming skills; experience analyzing data and translating results into business recommendations.
Preferred qualifications
- Master's degree in a relevant field plus at least four years of relevant experience, or bachelor's degree plus at least six years, or equivalent experience.
- Experience applying statistics or data science to pricing, monetization, or related business problems.
- Experience building Power BI dashboards and semantic models on Microsoft Fabric.
Pay
- The typical US base pay range is $106,400 to $203,600 per year; a separate range of $137,600 to $222,600 per year applies to the San Francisco Bay Area and New York City metropolitan area.
Application timing
- Applications are accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled; the posting will remain open for at least five days.
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