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

FinOps Weekly; Montreal (administrative region); Hybrid; CAD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Remote-work allowance

Professional development

Pension plan

Health and savings program

Job summary

FinOps Weekly is seeking a technical FinOps lead to design, implement, and continuously improve the organization’s FinOps framework. You will partner with platform and product teams to embed cost accountability in decisions, ensuring accurate cost data and driving optimization across AWS and Azure.

You will guide governance, enable showback, and translate cost insights into actionable technology choices while supporting a hybrid work model and international collaboration.

Qualifications

• University degree in information technology, software engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of FinOps experience including governance and continuous improvement.
• Experience working with teams at different FinOps maturity levels.
• Strong understanding of cloud cost models (AWS, Azure).
• Familiarity with analytical platforms (Databricks, Snowflake).
• Knowledge of Datadog and observability tools.
• Ability to translate cost information into actionable decisions.
• Systems-level view across cost, reliability, performance, and debt.
• Fluent in French and English, with ability to communicate with external partners outside Quebec.

Responsibilities

• Design and evolve the FinOps framework, governance, indicators, and tooling.
• Increase cloud cost visibility and support showback and optimization.
• Act as FinOps reference point for platform and product teams.
• Ensure credible cost data for IT and exec decisions.
• Contribute to FinOps governance forums and strategic IT decisions.
• Apply cloud cost expertise to identify optimization opportunities.

Skills

Cloud cost analysis

AWS & Azure cost models

Databricks

Snowflake

Datadog

Observability tools

Cost decision communication

Systems-level thinking

French and English

External partner communication

Education

University degree in information technology / software engineering

Tools

Databricks

Snowflake

Datadog

Job description

## Job Description## About the RoleWithin the Service Reliability team, this position serves as the technical and methodological lead for the FinOps framework. The role exists to design, implement, and continuously improve FinOps practices that support long-term cost accountability across the organization.The mandate is to embed FinOps 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 FinOps framework, including practices, governance, indicators, and tooling – Operationalize FinOps at organizational scale through visibility, showback, continuous optimization, and trade-off management – Act as the FinOps 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 FinOps 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 FinOps framework, including culture, governance, and continuous improvement – Comfortable working with teams at different levels of FinOps 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### FinOps Platforms / Practices – FinOps – Cloud Cost Management – Showback### Data & Analytics – Databricks – Snowflake### Monitoring / Observability – Datadog – Observability tools## FinOps Responsibilities– Design and evolve FinOps 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 FinOps 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 InterestedThis role offers the opportunity to shape FinOps 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 FinOps leadership with cross-functional influence, this is a substantive and visible mandate.