Data & Applied Scientist

At Microsoft, our mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. We plan to achieve this mission by building best-in-class platforms and productivity services for a mobile-first, cloud-first world. Our core ambitions are to reinvent productivity & business processes, build the intelligent cloud platform and create more personal computing. The Experiences + Devices organization is critical to delivering on this mission and vision, maintaining responsibility for the end-to-end physical and digital supply chains for Microsoft’s vast array of existing and next-generation hardware and software products.

The Microsoft Devices Supply Chain (MDSC) organization within Microsoft is responsible for the design, manufacturing, distribution, sales, and customer support of Microsoft’s hardware products. The product portfolio includes HoloLens, Xbox, Surface, Surface Hub and others spanning operations in hundreds of countries across online, retail, enterprise and operator channels. This role will be a critical part of the Supply Chain Analytics team, which reports into the COO of Microsoft’s Devices Organization.

We are looking for a skilled Data & Applied Scientist who is passionate about data analytics, is comfortable dealing with ambiguity, and has a track record of storytelling and making data-driven recommendations to drive business value.

Responsibilities

Our work is highly varied and offers a chance to focus on many different data science techniques and aspects of the Devices Operations businesses and beyond. As a Data Scientist, you will need a mix of deep data science and broad consultative skills.

• You will work with stakeholders to formulate approaches to solve problems using algorithms and data sources in context of customer, engineering, and business needs.
• You will use data exploration techniques to discover new opportunities within your problem area.
• You will interpret the results of analyses, validate approaches, and learn to monitor, analyze, and iterate to continuously improve.
• You will engage with stakeholders to produce clear, compelling, and actionable insights that influence product and service improvements that will impact millions of customers.
• You will also engage in the peer review process and act on feedback while learning innovative methods, algorithms, and tools to increase the impact and applicability of your results.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required
• 3-6 years’ experience as a data engineer, BI developer, or data analyst, in an engineering or technology operations environment
• 3-6 years’ experience in building BI solutions, Excel, PowerBI, and SQL required
• Experience with complex data stores and big data platforms required
• Excellent project management skills, including issue tracking, research, cross-group collaboration, and communication
• Strong problem resolution, judgment and decision-making skills required
• Prior experience and knowledge of MS systems tools such as MS Sales, SAP, Azure Insights preferred
• Prior experience programming in SQL, R, Python preferred