Senior Business Analyst - remote

Posted 3 years ago
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ThycoticCentrify's Engineering organization seeks a Senior Business Analyst to manage the Engineering budget and produce KPIs, data analytics, reports, and dashboards that drive improvements in the operational efficiency of product development and SaaS operations. You will partner with world class business and engineering leaders to research problem areas, mine data, discover insights, and develop monitoring analytics that lead to cost optimizations, productivity gains, and operational efficiencies in the Engineering group. This is a remote based position with the ideal candidate being located in the Salt Lake City, UT area. This position will report to the SVP, Engineering.

Key Responsibilities

      • Define and develop a set of operational KPIs that drive operational efficiencies and benchmark against best-in-class organizations.
      • Develop a system to monitor, provide visibility, and provide proactive notifications to leadership and engineering teams around operational metrics.
      • Define and implement the culture and mechanics of cloud hosting cost awareness and drive efficiencies in cloud margins.
      • Analyze data looking for key insights that improve the operational efficiencies of product development teams around productivity, quality, and cost optimizations.
      • Manage the Engineering budget, spend analysis and reduction, and resourcing strategies to drive efficiencies.
      • Foster a culture of cost awareness and ownership.

Skills and Requirements

      • Experience developing reports and dashboards with a BI tool like PowerBI or Tableau.
      • Experience with Amazon AWS and/or Microsoft Azure cloud costing and cost tracking tools.
      • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills to identify problems, research solutions, and validate theories.
      • Strong quantitative skills with ability to take complex factors and create concise decision-supporting analyses.
      • Be self-driven and show ability to deliver on ambiguous projects with incomplete data.
      • Strong relationship building skills with ability to engage business and engineering leaders as a finance and operations partner.
      • Excellent written and verbal communication skills;proven experience articulating financial metrics and operational monitoring to all audiences, including C-level executives and engineers.
      • Outstanding interpersonal skills: proven ability to communicate effectively with technical contributors, management, and executive leadership.
      • Bachelor's degree in business or finance.
      • MBA highly valued.