Lead Cloud Solution Architect- FinOps

About the role

The Solutions Consulting & Engineering (SC&E) Team at WWT is Customer Focused and Solutions Led. We deliver end-to-end and emerging solutions to drive customer satisfaction, increase profitability and growth. Our success is enabled by our world-class management consulting, delivery excellence, and engineering brilliance. Our goal is to bring together business acumen with full-stack technical know-how to develop innovative solutions for our clients' most complex challenges.

Responsibilities

• Own delivery of FinOps engagements from discovery through realization, including maturity assessment, tooling implementation (Cloudability, CloudHealth, native cost tools), cost allocation models, and optimization realization
• Deliver hands on cloud architecture expertise on at least one hyperscaler (AWS, Azure, or GCP) to translate cost findings into technical remediation, including rightsizing, reserved capacity strategy, architecture refactoring, and workload placement
• Regularly work across multiple concurrent client engagements, providing FinOps quality assurance on FinOps adjacent work
• Partner with Solution Owner to define and continuously improve WWT's FinOps delivery process, including reference architectures, delivery playbooks, assessment frameworks, and reusable delivery assets
• Support Solution Owner in building and maturing WWT's standalone cloud cost optimization offering, contributing methodology and delivery IP the practice can reuse
• Support RFP and RFI responses as the FinOps subject matter expert, providing solution narratives and differentiators grounded in WWT's actual delivery experience
• Support cloud provider field teams and WWT account executives in positioning FinOps offerings and shaping pursuit strategies for strategic accounts

Qualifications

• 8-10+ years in cloud consulting or enterprise cloud roles, with at least 3 years focused specifically on FinOps or cloud cost management
• Demonstrated hands on technical depth in one or more major cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP), covering architecture, infrastructure as code, and cost and billing constructs, not just dashboards
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience
• FinOps Certified Professional required; FinOps Certified Practitioner or equivalent accepted as an interim credential
• Prior consulting experience, meaning client facing delivery and not internal only cost management
• Proven track record advising and presenting to executive level stakeholders
• Comfortable owning delivery from discovery through solution design, implementation, and realization reporting

Success in Year One

• At least two active FinOps engagements are running under this role's direct delivery ownership with no quality gaps
• WWT's FinOps service offerings are sharper, more repeatable, and faster to scope, measurably reducing presales cycle time
• The frameworks, playbooks, and standards this role has built have made WWT's FinOps delivery more scalable, enabling the team to take on greater volume without sacrificing quality
• Client satisfaction scores on FinOps engagements reflect measurable improvement in delivery consistency and outcome achievement

Benefits

• Competitive pay
• Profit Sharing
• 401k Plan with Company Matching
• Life and Disability Insurance
• Tuition Reimbursement
• PTO and Sick Leave (starting at 20 days per year) & Holidays (10 per year)
• Parental Leave
• Military Leave
• Bereavement
• Nursing Mothers Benefits
• Voluntary Legal
• Pet Insurance
• Employee Discount Program