Senior Data Analyst
Role summary
We’re seeking a Senior Data Analyst to define, own, and operationalize metrics and KPIs that measure the health, progress, quality, and business impact of our cloud migration program. This person will translate migration objectives into measurable outcomes, build reliable measurement pipelines and dashboards, and partner with engineering, finance, security, and product teams to drive data-driven decisions that reduce risk, control cost, and maximize business value from cloud migration.
Key responsibilities
- Define the KPI framework for cloud migration (strategy → measurable outcomes), including clear definitions, owners, data sources, SLAs, and alerting thresholds.
- Build and maintain dashboards and automated reports for engineering leadership, and program stakeholders.
- Instrument migration processes to capture quality, reliability, and performance signals (success/failure rate, rollback rate, downtime, restore times).
- Establish baseline metrics and measure delta changes against migration phases (per application, team, and workload).
- Monitor cloud spend and cost KPIs; analyze metrics and recommend optimization actions.
- Partner with cloud engineers to validate instrumentation, tagging, and telemetry needed to generate accurate metrics.
- Implement data quality best practices for migration metrics; perform regular audits and root-cause analyses of metric anomalies.
- Drive continuous improvement by proposing and tracking remediation actions; help prioritize migration work based on data.
- Communicate findings and insights clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders; produce executive summaries and deep-dive analyses as required.
Core KPIs and example metrics to own
- Applications Hosted in Cloud
- Monthly metric showing cloud inventory; both adds and deletes
- Customer-facing data breaking down by business unit, CSP affinity and landing zone
- Migration progress
- % workloads migrated to target cloud vs plan (by count and business criticality)
- Time to migrate per workload (median, 90th percentile)
- Reliability & quality
- Migration success rate (first-pass success)
- Rollback rate and root-cause categories
- Post-migration incident frequency & severity (MTTR, number of P1/P2 incidents)
- Performance & user impact
- Pre-post performance change (latency, throughput) per workload
- Service Level Objective (SLO) compliance pre/post-migration
- Compliance & governance
- Asset tagging coverage and correctness
- Percentage of workloads meeting security & compliance checks before cutover
- Operational readiness
- Runbook/test coverage for migration events
- Automated test/pass rates (integration/smoke tests) during migration
Required qualifications
- 5+ years hands-on experience in data analytics, with 2+ years focused on cloud migration/CloudOps metrics preferred.
- Strong SQL fluency and experience building production analytics pipelines.
- Experience with one or more cloud providers (AWS/Azure/GCP) and cloud reporting.
- Proficiency with analytics & visualization tools (e.g., Tableau, Power BI, Grafana).
- Programming experience in Python, R, or similar for data processing and analysis.
- Strong communication skills and experience working cross-functionally with engineering, executives, and product teams.
Preferred qualifications
- Prior experience owning KPIs for large-scale migration or transformation programs.
- Knowledge of cloud networking, CI/CD, container orchestration, and distributed system performance.
- Familiar with data governance, organizational change management and observability practices.
Only shortlisted candidates are going to be contacted
Benefits:
Paid sick leave, Medical/Dental (optional), 401 (k) Retirement Plan (optional), Employer Paid Life Insurance, Employer Paid Short Term Disability, Optional Life Insurance.
ELYON International, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.
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What We Do
ELYON International is a premier management consulting firm with a diverse list of both government and commercial customers. ELYON International provides comprehensive management consulting, information technology, geospatial and professional support services that enable our customers to meet their goals and exceed performance objectives. Ingrained in the ELYON culture is a commitment to excellence that resonates throughout our valued employees and clients. We are committed to nourishing longstanding and fulfilling careers for our employees that builds on a strong life-work balance, opportunity for advancement and continuous improvement through training opportunities. ELYON has emerged as a trusted name for Government and commercial sector customers. ELYON International’s President is the recipient of various leadership awards including the 2009 Oregon Minority Small Business Person of the Year award, presented by the SBA’s Portland, Oregon District.
ELYON International specializes in the disciplines of Information Technology support, Enterprise Geographic Information Systems, Program and Project Management, and Professional Staffing. Using proven principals and methodologies that begin with a focus on customer satisfaction, the ELYON International Team provides solutions and services to assist government and commercial organizations in meeting and exceeding their business goals
