Senior Data Engineer​/Data Analyst – FinOps

Overview

Senior Data Engineer / Data Analyst - Fin Ops. This role focuses on Fin Ops (Cloud Financial Operations) to support our Data Platform/Engineering teams. The ideal candidate brings both technical data skills and financial acumen to help internal customers understand their financial usage of the data platform and deliver cost and usage report analytics.

Base pay range: $60.00/hr - $80.00/hr

The ideal candidate has strong finance modeling and business case analysis skills, along with experience in planning, forecasting, and business management. You should be able to manage financial reporting, data collection, and dashboard integration, while overseeing central chargeback and showback processes, as well as OPEX/COGS split and allocation. This role requires central ownership of all cost, reporting, P&L, and business reporting for infrastructure, including managing monthly forecast updates, maintaining a unified financial model that spans all lines of business, and supporting business management for both on-prem and third-party environments.

You will also build and deliver executive-level presentations that translate complex financial and operational insights into actionable recommendations.

• Partner with engineering, product, and finance teams to analyze cloud spend (AWS, GCP, Azure, or equivalent) and identify optimization opportunities.
• Build dashboards, reports, and cost allocation models for chargeback/showback.
• Track and forecast cloud usage (compute, storage, networking) in alignment with business and LOB needs.
• Perform deep-dive analysis on usage anomalies, budget overruns, and ROI of infrastructure programs.
• Support quarterly and annual planning with insights into capacity and cost drivers.

• 8+ years of experience in a Data Engineering & Analytics role with strong SQL and data visualization skills (Tableau, Superset, Looker, or Power BI). Proven ability to create ETL pipelines and dashboards for data analysis and financial reporting.
• Hands-on experience with cloud cost and billing data (e.g., AWS CUR, GCP Billing Export, Azure Cost Management).
• Deep understanding of public cloud pricing models (AWS, Azure, GCP), compute/storage/networking costs, instance types, serverless pricing, tagging, and resource hierarchy. Experience analyzing cloud cost and building usage reports.
• Strong experience with Fin Ops practices like tagging, cost allocation, budgeting/forecasting, and efficiency reporting. Knowledge of showback/chargeback and unit-based cost metrics (e.g., cost per job, API call, GB processed). Experience building Fin Ops dashboards and KPIs to improve cost transparency and forecasting accuracy.
• Proficiency in Python and SQL for scripting and automation. Experience with CI/CD pipelines, APIs, and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Cloud Formation, Pulumi).

• Comprehensive medical benefits
• Competitive pay
• 401(k) retirement plan
• ...and much more!

Technology is our focus and quality is our commitment. As a national expert in delivering flexible technology and talent solutions, we strategically align industry and technical expertise with our clients  business objectives and cultural needs. Our solutions are tailored to each client and include a wide variety of professional services, project, and talent solutions. By always striving for excellence and focusing on the human aspect of our business, we work seamlessly with our talent and clients to match the right solutions to the right opportunities.

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