Business Analyst - Infrastructure Cost Management

EA's Production Infrastructure & Engineering (PI&E) organization provides the essential platforms and infrastructure hosting solutions that power EA's live services. Our charter is to make EA's games and services available to all players anytime and anywhere. To do this, we focus on the high availability of infrastructure, primary services, and studio services. We aim to help developers to experiment and build new games quickly with infrastructure services on-demand and workflows that promote rapid development in the cloud. In all of this, we focus on being there for players where and when they want to play.

Infrastructure Optimization

We are a group of Business Analysts, Data Analysts, and Engineers who work with multiple teams to provide insight about our online services that enhance the game experience. We support a multi-billion-dollar video game ecosystem and non-development departments within EA – our portfolio is wide. Our environments are challenged by marketing promotions, game launches, and security threats. We are passionate about automation. You will report to the Director of Infrastructure Cost Management.

Responsibilities

• You will influence and support strategic decision-making; model business scenarios and provide deep insights into data and complex problems or situations using appropriate methodologies and performance metrics.
• You will track and report important insights to partners and leadership, on our infrastructure spend.
• You will forecast infrastructure costs, build queries and analyze data to support forecasting, cost modelling, chargebacks and show important insights into infrastructure cost drivers.
• You will partner, liaise, and translate technical requirements to spend with teams across the organization, including finance and other technical teams.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in related fields
• Familiarity with SQL and similar database tools for querying complex data sets.
• Familiarity with Infrastructure costs, and workload usage /consumption patterns on cloud including an understanding of cloud providers, platforms and configurations (AWS, GCP, Azure)
• Experience with data visualization software packages, e.g., Looker, Power BI, Tableau
• A B.A./B.S. in STEM, Mathematics, Statistics, Economics, Computer Science, or Engineering Sciences