Associate Director - Cloud FinOps Manager

Technologies we use

Your responsibilities

• Cultural Transformation: Act as a subject matter expert for Cloud FinOps, driving a culture of cost ownership across the engineering organization through technical guidance, insight dashboards, and knowledge sharing.
• Governance & Visibility: Design and implement a universal resource tagging strategy and robust showback/chargeback models to ensure clear service delivery accountability.
• Optimization & Efficiency: Lead a continuous optimization program, collaborating with engineering to refactor applications for cost-efficiency and adopting advanced pricing models.
• Commercial Strategy: Develop and execute strategies for cloud vendor negotiations, aligning commitments with business objectives to mitigate financial risk.
• Forecasting & Budgeting: Build and operate data-driven forecasting models, partnering with Tech and Finance stakeholders to eliminate spending volatility and provide accurate budgetary projections.

Our requirements

• 7+ years of dedicated experience in Cloud FinOps or Cloud Financial Management, with a proven track record of managing significant AWS spend.
• Mastery of Cloud Economics, including deep expertise in AWS cost structures (Savings Plans, Reserved Instances, Spot, and CUR).
• Exceptional analytical and financial modeling skills, with the ability to build data-driven business cases for executive-level stakeholders.
• Technical credibility to discuss architectural trade-offs with engineers and optimize application architecture for cost.
• Proven experience in leading or participating in large-scale commercial negotiations with major cloud vendors.
• A "builder's mentality" with the ability to design FinOps processes and strategies from the ground up.
• Proficiency with scripting (e.g., Python/Bash) and experience with third-party tools (e.g., Vantage, CloudHealth) is highly advantageous.

What we offer

• Global collaboration at scale: Collaborate with experienced engineers and product partners across HelloTech’s international teams, in a culture of active knowledge sharing.
• Technology with real-world impact: Build and operate modern systems at global scale, supporting 6+ millions of customers and complex supply chain operations.
• Technical/Product/Design leadership: Drive best practices and influence architecture/design, quality, and ways of working in an autonomous, product-led setup.
• End-to-end development/delivery: Drive decisions from problem definition to production, improving systems and enabling long-term scalability.
• Access to workspace at Warsaw Centre Point. The hub offers modern facilities including showers, breakout zones, outdoor space, cycle parking, and refreshments (coffee, soft drinks, and fruit).

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