Principal Cloud FinOps Lead

🔥 18 hours ago

🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

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Cloudera

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2008

💼 Consulting

🏥 Healthcare

📦 Logistics

💰 $4.1M Venture Round on 2013-01

Consulting • Healthcare • Logistics

Cloudera is a leading enterprise data cloud company that empowers businesses to manage and analyze data across any environment. Offering a hybrid data platform, Cloudera facilitates modern data architectures with solutions like open data lakehouse, scalable data mesh, and unified data fabric, designed for artificial intelligence, data engineering, and machine learning. Key industries served include financial services, telecommunications, healthcare, and more, where Cloudera's platform enables secure, scalable, and effective data management. By leveraging AI and advanced analytics at scale, Cloudera helps organizations transform their data into actionable insights.

📋 Description

• Own and manage cloud financial operations across AWS, Azure, and GCP, aligning usage and spend with business and product goals • Build and evolve cost governance frameworks for tagging, chargeback, budgets, and commitment management, including RIs, Savings Plans, and CUDs • Partner with engineering and platform teams to embed cost efficiency into architectures, CI/CD processes, and lifecycle management • Lead analysis and reporting using CloudZero, providing actionable insights through dashboards and monthly reviews • Work with Finance on forecasting, variance analysis, and cost allocation • Develop and present business cases for optimisation, automation, and migration initiatives • Drive the FinOps Champion Programme, mentoring cost owners across departments and supporting financial accountability • Collaborate with Procurement and vendor management on cloud contracts, renewals, and commercial negotiations • Promote continuous improvement through tooling, automation, and education that enhances FinOps maturity and measurable savings

🎯 Requirements

• Significant experience in FinOps, cloud cost optimisation, or cloud architecture in a large multi-cloud enterprise • Strong understanding of cloud pricing and billing models (AWS, Azure, GCP) and how to optimise them • Hands-on experience with CloudZero or similar FinOps and cost visibility platforms • Proven ability to drive measurable savings and influence technical and financial stakeholders at all levels • Excellent communication and collaboration skills, able to translate data into actionable insight • Excellent data analysis skills • FinOps Certified Professional or equivalent certification • Background in CloudOps, SRE, Platform Engineering, or IT Finance • Experience implementing cloud financial governance, chargeback models, or automation at scale • Familiarity with FP&A and financial forecasting • A passion for operational excellence, automation, and data-driven decision-making • This role is not eligible for immigration sponsorship

🏖️ Benefits

• Generous PTO Policy • Unplugged Days to support work-life balance • Flexible WFH Policy • Mental & Physical Wellness programs • Phone and Internet Reimbursement program • Access to Continued Career Development • Comprehensive Benefits and Competitive Packages • Paid Volunteer Time • Employee Resource Groups