Concepteur(-trice) principal; e), FinOps- FR

Position: Concepteur(-trice) principal(e), FinOps- FR
Location: Montreal (administrative region)

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Job Description ## About the Role Within the Service Reliability team, this position serves as the technical and methodological lead for the Fin Ops framework. The role exists to design, implement, and continuously improve Fin Ops practices that support long-term cost accountability across the organization.

The mandate is to embed Fin Ops principles into technology decision-making, with a focus on reliability and performance. The person in this role will work closely with platform and product teams, as well as governance forums, to strengthen adoption and support informed investment, prioritization, and migration decisions.

A key part of the role is ensuring that cost data used in technical and executive decision-making is accurate, consistent, and credible. The position also brings complementary Cloud Cost Management expertise to identify practical optimization opportunities when relevant.##

Key Responsibilities – Design and evolve the Fin Ops framework, including practices, governance, indicators, and tooling  – Operationalize Fin Ops at organizational scale through visibility, showback, continuous optimization, and trade-off management  – Act as the Fin Ops reference point for platform and product teams to support autonomy and sustained adoption  – Ensure the quality, consistency, and credibility of cost data used in IT and executive decisions  – Contribute to Fin Ops governance forums and support strategic decisions related to IT prioritization, investments, and migrations  – Apply Cloud Cost Management expertise to support technical decisions and identify concrete optimization opportunities when appropriate## Required Skills– University degree in information technology, software engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience  – 5+ years of relevant experience in a Fin Ops framework, including culture, governance, and continuous improvement  – Comfortable working with teams at different levels of Fin Ops maturity  – Strong understanding of cloud environments, specifically AWS and Azure, including their cost models  – Knowledge of analytical platforms, including Databricks and Snowflake  – Knowledge of Datadog and other observability tools  – Ability to translate cost information into actionable decisions  – Systems-level perspective spanning cost, reliability, performance, and technical debt  – Strong written and spoken French and English  – Ability to communicate orally and/or in writing with external partners based outside Quebec## Preferred Skills– Not specified## Cloud Platforms & Technologies### Cloud Providers  – AWS  – Azure### Fin Ops Platforms / Practices  – Fin Ops  – Cloud Cost Management  – Showback### Data & Analytics  – Databricks  – Snowflake### Monitoring / Observability  – Datadog  – Observability tools## Fin Ops Responsibilities– Design and evolve Fin Ops practices, governance, indicators, and tooling  – Improve cloud cost visibility across the organization  – Support showback and ongoing optimization efforts  – Help guide cost-related trade-offs in technology decisions  – Participate in Fin Ops governance and support major decisions on prioritization, investments, and migrations  – Apply cloud cost expertise to identify practical optimization levers## Benefits– Competitive total compensation, including a defined-benefit pension plan and a co-investment program  – Comprehensive health and savings program  – Professional development and internal mobility opportunities  – Work-life balance support  – Hybrid work model with four in-office days per week  – Annual remote-work allowance, including the possibility of working outside Canada## Why You Might Be Interested

This role offers the opportunity to shape Fin Ops practices in a large-scale organization where cost accountability, reliability, and performance are closely linked. It is a strategic position with direct influence on technology decisions, governance, and investment prioritization. The role also provides exposure to cloud cost management across AWS and Azure, along with analytical and observability platforms such as Databricks, Snowflake, and Datadog.

For candidates who want to combine Fin Ops leadership with cross-functional influence, this is a substantive and visible mandate.