FinOps Specialist – Databricks and Cloud
RemoteUnited States
Job Summary
Monitor and analyze Databricks and cloud spending across workspaces, projects, teams, environments, and workloads, tracking compute usage, SQL warehouses, jobs, storage, and networking. Identify idle, oversized, or inefficient resources and recommend improvements involving cluster sizing, autoscaling, job scheduling, serverless compute, and workload design. Develop budgets and forecasts, compare actual costs against budgets, and investigate significant variances. Create cost-allocation models by client, project, contract, cost center, team, or data product, and support showback, chargeback, tagging, and resource-ownership standards. Build dashboards covering spend, trends, forecasts, anomalies, savings, and commitment utilization, while configuring budgets, thresholds, alerts, and financial guardrails. Review invoices for accuracy, reconcile charges, and evaluate reserved capacity and savings plans. Maintain a register of optimization opportunities and track realized savings. Provide financial estimates for new workloads, migrations, and architectural changes, helping technical teams understand the financial impact of platform decisions. Support development of FinOps policies and cost-aware engineering practices.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, business, information technology, data analytics, or a related field
- At least five years of experience in FinOps, cloud financial management, technology finance, or cloud cost optimization
- Experience analyzing Databricks or other cloud data-platform costs
- Experience with Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud pricing, billing, and cost-management tools
- Strong knowledge of budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, cost allocation, and optimization
- Experience with showback, chargeback, tagging, invoice reconciliation, and commitment management
- Strong Excel or financial-modeling skills
- Ability to translate technical usage data into clear financial recommendations
- Strong analytical, communication, reporting, and stakeholder-management skills
Desired Qualifications
- FinOps Certified Practitioner or FinOps Certified Professional
- Hands-on experience with Databricks billing data, system tables, cluster policies, SQL warehouses, and serverless compute
- Experience with Azure Cost Management, AWS Cost Explorer, Google Cloud Billing, Cloudability, CloudHealth, Flexera, Finout, or similar tools
- Experience with Power BI, Tableau, SQL, Python, or Databricks SQL
- Familiarity with data engineering, Apache Spark, Delta Lake, Terraform, and infrastructure as code
- Experience supporting large enterprise, consulting, government, or regulated programs
- Cloud or Databricks certification
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