Lead Azure FinOps Analyst

Responsibilities

• Influence enterprise-wide cloud financial strategy across a multi-million-dollar Azure environment.
• Partner directly with senior leaders across Engineering, Information Security, Finance, Architecture, and Cloud Platform organizations.
• Drive next-generation AI for FinOps capabilities including intelligent anomaly detection, optimization recommendations, automated reporting, and decision support.
• Help optimize Azure commitments, discount programs, and consumption strategies to maximize business value.
• Design intelligent automation that safely eliminates cloud waste and improves operational efficiency.
• See the measurable impact of your work by helping manage and optimize over nine figures of annual cloud spend.
• Be part of a highly collaborative, innovative team that encourages experimentation, continuous learning, and new ideas.

Qualifications

• Strong experience working with Microsoft Azure in large-scale enterprise environments.
• Experience using Azure native cost management, billing, and governance capabilities.
• Understanding of FinOps principles and cloud cost optimization strategies.
• Strong knowledge of Azure cost drivers including: Compute, Storage, Networking, Commitments and reservations, Utilization patterns.
• Experience developing dashboards and reports using Power BI.
• Experience working with APIs, scripting, or automation technologies such as Python, SQL, infrastructure tooling, or workflow orchestration platforms.
• Strong analytical, conceptual thinking, communication, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to communicate technical concepts to both engineering and business audiences.
• Curiosity, creativity, and a willingness to challenge conventional thinking.
• Comfortable experimenting with new ideas and learning from failure to drive innovation.