Cloud Data Analyst

Requisition ID

185989

About

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

Hybrid Work Model

• 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.

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.

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.

Requirements

• 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.

Benefits

• 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.

Office Location (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