Do strategic analytics excite you?
Do you like collaborating across teams to deliver operational excellence?
Join our Cloud Technology Program Management team
We are seeking a data-savvy, detail-oriented Analyst to join our PMO's Transformation and Operations team. This individual will play a critical role in our Data Transformation initiatives supporting data standardization, metric development, performance monitoring and analytical insights that drive decision-making and organizational effectiveness.
Partner with the best
This role is ideal for someone who thrives in a cross-functional environment, can translate data into actionable insights. and has the critical thinking to challenge inconsistencies in metrics or trends
As a Strategy & Operations Analyst II, you will be responsible for:
- Collecting, consolidating, transforming, and automating headcount and budget data from multiple systems into standardized and automated formats
- Driving requirements gathering, user acceptance testing, and automation of dashboards and analytical tools using platforms such as Tableau, Google Apps Scripts, Gemini, and Claude Code
- Collaborating with finance, hiring managers, and talent acquisition to ensure accurate tracking, maintenance of headcount and cost data, along with standardizing procedures for these processes
- Identifying and investigating anomalies or inconsistencies in headcount or OpEx data, and suggest corrective actions or data-quality improvements
- Enabling easier data intelligence through the automation of OpEx & Headcount Reporting
- Partnering with strategy & operations leadership, hiring managers, finance, and talent acquisition to ensure alignment on reporting goals, analytical needs, and automation
- Recommending and implementing data governance and analytics best practices
Do what you love
To be successful in this role you will:
- Have relevant experience in data analytics, business analysis, or a similar role
- Be familiar with Matrix / Virtual Org Dynamics: solid understanding of how to allocate costs and headcount across virtual business units and functions
- Be proficient in tools such as SQL, Google Sheets, Geminin, Google Apps Scripts, Claude Code, and Tableau
- Be proficient using AI tooling to automate data analysis and workflow automation
- Have experience with financial & budget data
- Have great analytical and critical thinking skills with a detail-oriented mindset
- Be comfortable with ambiguity and ability to drive structure and clarity in complex environments
- Be passionate for streamlining complex data collection & budget approval processes
- Have excellent communication skills; able to present complex data to non-technical audiences clearly and effectively
About us
At Akamai, we make life better for billions of people, trillions of times a day.
Whether you're streaming live events, scrolling social media, watching your favorite series, or managing your savings, we're the engine behind the scenes. We provide the world's most distributed platform from Cloud to Edge to help the giants of the digital world work faster and stay more secure, making the internet a better experience for everyone.
Our focus is simple:
Cloud and Edge: Running apps closer to users for instant performance.
Security: Neutralizing threats before they ever reach your data.
Content Delivery: Scaling the world's biggest moments without a glitch.
AI: Enabling our customers to build, secure, and scale AI apps on the world's most distributed cloud platform.
At Akamai, we don't just support the internet; we power and protect it, because behind every great digital experience is a massive hidden challenge. And we're the ones who solve it. When millions of people hit play or pay, Akamai ensures it just works.
Benefits at Akamai: We support your health, well-being, finances, and life beyond work. See our benefits.
FlexBase adapts to your job's needs
Akamai's FlexBase program is yet another way we show our commitment to providing employees with an exceptional workplace experience. It's not about telling employees where to work; it's about supporting employees to do their best work.
We trust our incredible employees to work in ways that suit them best: at home, in an office, or a combination of both.
Skills Required
- Experience in data analytics, business analysis, or similar role
- Familiarity with matrix/virtual org dynamics and allocating costs/headcount across units
- Proficiency with SQL
- Proficiency with Google Sheets
- Proficiency with Google Apps Scripts
- Proficiency with Tableau
- Proficiency with Gemini
- Proficiency with Claude Code
- Proficiency using AI tooling to automate data analysis and workflows
- Experience with financial and budget data
- Strong analytical and critical thinking skills with attention to detail
- Comfortable with ambiguity and ability to create structure in complex environments
- Excellent communication skills; present complex data to non-technical audiences
Akamai Technologies Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Akamai Technologies and has not been reviewed or approved by Akamai Technologies.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Unlimited PTO in the U.S., wellness days, paid volunteering time, and the FlexBase model contribute to broad time‑off flexibility. These practices are described as supporting strong work‑life balance.
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Parental & Family Support — Generous paid parental leaves, paid family care leave, subsidized backup childcare, and inclusive family‑building benefits via Carrot form a comprehensive family support suite. Coverage spans fertility support through caregiving resources.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) with a substantial company match and immediate vesting, plus Roth and Mega Backdoor Roth options, underpin long‑term savings. These features provide reliable long‑term savings opportunities.
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What We Do
At Akamai, we make life better for billions of people, billions of times a day. Every moment, billions of people, all over the world, are using the internet to shop, play games, look after finances, learn remotely, share videos, connect across the world, and so much more. These life-shaping digital experiences wouldn’t be possible without Akamai. We power and protect life online. It’s an extraordinary mission, and our global teams achieve it by solving the toughest challenges, and turning the impossible into the possible. With the world’s most distributed compute platform — from cloud to edge — we make it easy for businesses to develop and run applications, while we keep experiences closer to users and threats farther away. That’s why innovative companies worldwide choose Akamai to build, deliver, and secure their digital experiences. Thanks to our world’s most distributed platform for cloud computing, security, and content delivery. Akamai keeps applications and experiences closer and threats farther away. Devoted, determined problem-solvers who share a passion for technology, we’re always pushing ground-breaking ideas and driving innovation. Do you want to power and protect life online, by solving the toughest challenges with us? Be part of an amazing team!
Why Work With Us
Our people are devoted, determined problem-solvers who share a passion for technology. We find solutions through persistence, and push ground-breaking ideas forward with urgency and courage. This creates an environment where we harness creative energy and drive innovation. We are inclusive and diverse, and we love to collaborate across the world.
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