FinOps Lead

What we would expect from you:

• Experience in leading Finops programs ( 5+ Years)

• Experience in cloud programs ( 5+ yrs)

• Familiarity with Cloud service pricing models, cost and usage estimates and forecast modeling using AWS or Azure tooling or third-party tooling.

• Ability to work both independently and collaboratively as part of a team, adapt to changes in priorities according to business needs, and prioritize tasks to meet deadlines.

• Experience leveraging infrastructure as code to create and manage solutions

Responsibilities include but not limited to:

• FinOps Leadership– financial optimization

Leading the FinOps program to drive efficiency and cost savings opportunities across Enterprise platforms ( EXAAS FINOPS), with targeted savings over baseline costs

Developing and promoting practices and behaviors around engineering excellence & FinOps. Collaborate with finance, technology, and business teams to mature FinOps governance processes including embedding FinOps functions into existing governance and architectural review processes. This includes incorporating cost optimization reviews as part of code reviews, integrating cost reporting into dashboards used by engineering teams, and setting up alerts for cost thresholds.

Leveraging and creating metrics, tools and dashboards for FinOps o Building and establishing TCO (Total Cost of ownership to increase visibility into the interconnectedness between applications and infrastructure via engineered solution(s).

Leading the FINOPS council and core team – comprising of resources across Finance, Engineering and Operations, Vendor Management & Contracting & Billing teams o Financial Analysis of software and related assets

• Understanding of cost drivers including license consumption, storage and compute models, etc

• Understanding of Enterprise platform models – PaaS, SaaS, etc

• Technical understanding of cloud usage patterns

• Working with Vendor Management and Contracting teams - analyze usage patterns and recommend or purchase reserved instances or savings plans where beneficial working with finance professionals to procure.

• Foster partnerships with engineers and architects to drive Enterprise cloud optimization initiatives. Encourage cross-functional collaboration to implement cost-effective architectural patterns, review resource usage patterns, and iterate on optimization strategies.

• Develop chargeback mappings and tagging strategies for cloud resources through Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

• Collaborate and partner with other technology teams, cybersecurity, and governance/risk/compliance teams to ensure capabilities continue to meet requirements throughout their lifecycle.

• Excellent communication and collaboration skills with attention to detail and accuracy and comfort with a wide variety of personas (technology associates, business representatives, finance partners, engineers, data scientists, leadership etc.

• Work with teams to implement automated anomaly detection using tools like AWS Cost Anomaly Detection or custom scripts that analyze cost and usage trends across accounts, teams, and environments and integrate automated tools to recommend optimal instance sizes based upon usage patterns.

• Work with teams to utilize CI/CD pipelines to automate the deployment of cloud cost monitoring tools and scripts (e.g., Cloudability, AWS Cost Explorer, Azure Cost Management). Ensure these tools are integrated to provide continuous visibility into trends and their alignment with business goals and KPIs. Then using these goals and KPI’s, develop scripts or use cloud-native tools to enforce compliance with policies (e.g., unused resources cleanup, adherence to budgeting rules