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As a FinOps Program Lead, your role will involve driving the planning, coordination, and execution of enterprise-scale cloud cost optimization initiatives for a large IT organization. Your responsibilities will include: - Leading the day-to-day execution of a multi-phase FinOps program across engineering, analytics, and financial operations workstreams. - Managing and maintaining the master optimization backlog and use case register across business units and cloud platforms. - Defining and maintaining a program-level KPI tracking framework aligned with enterprise cost efficiency, utilization, and forecast metrics. - Coordinating tagging strategy alignment, resource reservation planning, and commitment governance across teams. - Overseeing the creation and rollout of dashboards, reports, and stakeholder enablement materials. - Partnering with product and portfolio owners to validate optimization actions and ensure forecast re-alignment. - Planning and facilitating Agile ceremonies, stakeholder meetings, and executive updates to maintain program visibility and accountability. - Tracking and managing the program budget, sprint plans, resource allocations, and delivery milestones. - Providing risk mitigation, escalation handling, and continuous improvement feedback loops. Qualifications Required: - 8+ years of experience in cloud program management, FinOps, enterprise IT delivery, or cloud financial operations. - Proven success managing programs or portfolios involving multi-cloud cost optimization, cloud resource planning, or IT financial management. - Strong familiarity with Azure, AWS, and/or GCP cost structures, pricing models, and optimization strategies. - Understanding of cloud tagging, chargeback/showback models, reserved instance planning, and enterprise cloud budgeting. - Experience facilitating Agile/SAFe ceremonies and cross-functional planning in globally distributed teams. - Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills, including experience with executive reporting and alignment. - Ability to interpret and manage KPIs, savings realization metrics, and financial thresholds. The company prefers candidates with a background in FinOps Frameworks, Cloud Financial Management (CFM), or cloud governance initiatives, exposure to Cloudability or native CSP cost management tools, experience managing delivery teams with reporting, automation, or engineering components, and fluency in English. In this role, you will work towards achieving key outcomes such as a fully aligned and prioritized cloud cost optimization backlog, timely and validated reporting on savings realization, engaged and enabled stakeholder community, measurable improvement in resource planning, tagging strategy adherence, and reservation commitments, and an operational governance structure that sustains ongoing cost optimization at scale.,
