Cloud Data Analyst

Requisition ID: 185989

Join a purpose driven winning team, committed to results, in an inclusive and high-performing culture.

**Looking for a hybrid role? We have the job for you Our employees in hybrid roles can alternate between work from home & onsite in the office with the details to be determined, based on business needs.**

**The team**:
Global Technology Enterprise Platforms (GTEP) is a key technology division of Scotiabank, providing critical infrastructure solutions and support to the bank globally and employing approximately 2000 full-time employees and contractors, across 15 countries.

Our inaugural Strategic Portfolio Office (SPO)’s FinOps team for GTEP is mandated to help our internal stakeholders maximize value and achieve more with their cloud investments.

**The role**:
**Is this role right for you?**
- You enjoy building & defining technical and financial visibility; as well as operation tooling for our cloud platforms, working with our Data Office.
- You excel at identifying and surface opportunities for cost optimization and efficiencies by analyzing consumption and spend patterns.
- You are keen at being a key advisor to end users on the data that FinOps provides, and, as well, the expected outcomes of insights and recommendations.
- You are eager to be that visible evangelist promoting FinOps principles, best practices, and culture to increase the ability to understand cloud spend and optimization opportunities.
- You aim to be acutely aware of cloud spend footprint and detect any unusual consumption.
- You can utilize the Azure/GCP cost datasets to innovate data analysis that helps the organization better understand and react to cloud spend.
- You are ready to develop & maintain automated chargeback and workflows to streamline chargeback processes and improve efficiency.
- You shine at understanding data analytics needs and identifying high-impact opportunities to improve the chargeback process and implement sound analytics solutions and capabilities.
- You excel at turning data into valuable and actionable insights, managing, and optimizing data retrieval, administration, and automation.

**Do you have the skills that will enable you to succeed in this role?**
- You possess strong communication (verbal/written) skills to convey technical information to both technical and non-technical audiences. The same in Spanish is an asset.
- You can demonstrate professional working experience with Microsoft Azure and/or GCP & its inherent native tools, including Cost Analysis and the backend cost datasets.
- You have at least 3+ years of professional working experience with Cloud capacity forecasting, cloud cost optimization techniques, and GCP/Azure services.
- You have at least 2+ years of professional working experience in building related practices for data ingestion, reconciliation, validation and visualization.
- You can demonstrate familiarity with Application Programming Interface (APIs), User Interface (UIs), and automation scripting for cloud environments.
- You are self-motivated, independent, and a strategic/conceptual thinker.
- You possess exceptional analytical skills & problem-solving capabilities.
- You can adapt to working in a fast-paced, collaborative team environment.
- You must have attention to detail and a commitment to delivering high-quality results.
- Post-secondary education in Finance, Business, Mathematics, Computer Science, or in a technology related discipline.

**What's in it for you?**
- You'll get to work with and learn from diverse industry leaders, who have hailed from top technology companies around the world.
- We have an inclusive and collaborative working environment that encourages creativity, curiosity, and celebrates success We foster an environment of innovation and continuous learning.
- We care about our people, allowing them to design how they work to deliver amazing results.
- We offer a competitive total rewards package, including a performance bonus, company matching programs (pension & Employee Share Ownership), generous vacation; health/medical/wellness benefits; employee banking privileges.
- As a part of our Hybrid Work Model, when required to be onsite, our primary office in Scarborough is:

- Renovated with a design focus on enabling collaboration through both environment and technology.
- Furnished with an onsite cafeteria that serves hot foods (breakfast & lunch), salads, sandwiches, snacks & hot/cold drinks.
- Our lounges have TV’s, fridges, microwaves, complimentary hot beverage stations & water dispensers.
- Minutes from the 401 & DVP. Free onsite & offsite employee parking. Charging stations for electric vehicles onsite.
- Accessible by TTC bus from Eglinton subway station on Line 1 or from Warden subway station on Line 2 or from Kennedy station on Lines 2/3. When it begins to operate, the Eglinton Crosstown Light Rail Transit’s Birchmount stop is steps away.
- Kennedy GO Station on the Stouffville line & Scarborough GO Sta