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Senior Business Intelligence Analyst

Workday Pleasanton, CA Hybrid senior full-time

Salary

$139,800 USD - $209,600 USD per year

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Description

We are looking for a Senior Business Intelligence Analyst to operate as a strategic partner to finance and engineering leadership, architecting the next generation of cost governance and forecasting models across AWS and GCP.

The ideal candidate will have 6+ years of experience defining, designing, and implementing solutions to achieve desired business outcomes by evaluating, diagnosing, and evolving business processes and software technologies.

Responsibilities:

  • Architect the next generation of cost governance and forecasting models across AWS and GCP
  • Operate as a strategic partner to finance and engineering leadership
  • Bring an agent-first mentality to everything you build
  • Own the deployment and continuous refinement of agentic AI tools that autonomously monitor spend, flag anomalies, and execute cost-optimization actions at enterprise scale
  • Architect the governance frameworks that let those agents operate safely and independently
  • Guide junior and mid-level analysts, and represent FinOps in cross-organizational initiatives

Requirements:

  • 6+ years' experience defining, designing, and implementing solutions to achieve desired business outcomes
  • Proven ability to work with large-scale billing/usage datasets (billions of rows daily)
  • 3+ years of experience analyzing or operating software systems in one or more public cloud service providers (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
  • Demonstrated experience designing and deploying agentic AI tools or workflows as the primary mechanism for solving business problems
  • Demonstrated experience leading enterprise-scale initiatives with measurable financial impact

Nice to Have:

  • Direct experience working at a hyperscale cloud provider (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure)
  • Prior experience specifically in a FinOps role or function
  • Hands-on experience building or deploying AI agents
  • Background in pricing strategy and cost optimization at scale

Benefits:

  • Annualized base salary ranges: $139,800 USD - $209,600 USD
  • Eligible for the Workday Bonus Plan or a role-specific commission/bonus
  • Annual refresh stock grants
  • Comprehensive benefits

Flexible Work:

  • Spend at least half (50%) of your time each quarter in the office or in the field
  • Create a flexible schedule that caters to your business, team, and personal needs

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Skills

Required

  • SQL
  • large-scale data querying/analysis
  • agentic AI tools
  • cost governance
  • forecasting models

Nice to have

  • direct experience working at a hyperscale cloud provider
  • prior experience specifically in a FinOps role or function
  • hands-on experience building or deploying AI agents
  • background in pricing strategy and cost optimization at scale

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