Senior Business Analyst

Who are we hiring?

The Sr. Business Analyst, Technology role at Sphere Entertainment Co. operates at the intersection of production operations, enterprise technology, and finance. The ideal candidate must have a strong foundation in financial modeling and operational analytics, paired with knowledge of cloud, hybrid infrastructure, and production workflows within media, entertainment, VFX, or similar environments.

What will you do?

• Partner with technology leadership to translate large-scale studio and infrastructure programs into business cases, capital plans, and executive narratives
• Operate at the intersection of production operations, cloud and on-prem infrastructure, and finance — turning technical programs into quantified outcomes
• Provide exceptional experiences for our guests, partners, and team members, including by adhering to our appearance and presentation guidelines while on-site
• Financial & investment analysis:
  • Build CapEx / OpEx models for multi-tier investment proposals (Good / Better / Best frameworks)
  • Develop ROI and cost-avoidance models for individual technology programs (cloud spend reduction, render farm utilization, VFX labor offset, etc.) with clearly stated assumptions
  • Model total cost of ownership for vendor decisions (storage platforms, virtualization stacks, render management, networking) and produce side-by-side comparisons
  • Track hardware market trends (GPU, memory, networking) and flag pricing windows that should shift purchase timing or scope
• Capacity & operations analytics:
  • Quantify infrastructure utilization across render farm, storage, network, and cloud; build dashboards that expose contention, idle capacity, and forecasted demand
  • Translate production pipeline growth (shows, residencies, marquee events) into infrastructure capacity requirements
  • Identify and size the operational impact of pain points surfaced from production staff, post, playback, and pipeline teams
  • Develop billback and chargeback models that map infrastructure consumption to projects and business units
• Program & portfolio support:
  • Maintain technology roadmaps with level of effort (LOE), resourcing, sequencing, and dependency views
  • Maintain headcount and resourcing models — current vs. required engineering months by program, with shortfall analysis and quarterly hiring plans
• Communication:
  • Produce executive-grade decks, one-pagers, FAQs, and speaker notes for finance, executive, and board audiences
  • Translate architecture diagrams and engineering concepts into business language without losing technical accuracy

What do you need to succeed?

• 5+ years in technology strategy, business operations, or management consulting with exposure to media, entertainment, VFX, gaming, or large-scale infrastructure
• Financial modeling skills in Excel; comfortable with CapEx vs. OpEx structures, multi-year forecasts, and sensitivity analysis
• Working fluency with cloud economics (GCP, AWS, or Azure) — compute, storage, egress, FinOps concepts
• Working understanding of studio / VFX production workflows: render farms, DCC tools, storage tiers, pipeline, post, content delivery
• Strong written communication; able to produce polished executive deliverables with minimal direction
• Familiarity with hybrid-cloud architectures, render management (OpenCue, Deadline), DAM/MAM platforms, or virtualization (VMware, Proxmox)
• SQL or BI tooling (Looker, Tableau, Power BI) for utilization and cost analytics
• Experience supporting capital planning cycles in a media or production environment

Pay Range

$96,000—$160,000 USD