FinOps Architect

Zynga; Toronto; On-site; CAD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Wellness benefits

Food and snacks

Flexible time-off policies

Transit benefits

Employee resource groups

Competitive compensation

Health insurance

Job summary

Zynga in Toronto leads FinOps initiatives to optimize costs across mobile game platforms. The role directs backend services, data analysis, and tooling to reduce expenditures while maintaining performance and reliability.

You will mentor engineers, collaborate with multiple teams, and stay current with cloud provider changes to identify new savings opportunities and guide architectural decisions.

Qualifications

• BS in CS, math, statistics, engineering or equivalent experience.
• 8+ years hands-on cloud infrastructure (AWS).
• Experience mentoring engineers and leading multi-team projects.
• Proven ability to collaborate with customers and 50+ teams.
• Experience developing APIs, UIs, and data pipelines.
• Hands-on with infrastructure-as-code and CI testing.
• Strong FinOps and cost management background.

Responsibilities

• Lead FinOps team by setting technical direction and backend architectures.
• Mentor engineers and drive cost efficiency across the organization.
• Collaborate with product, data, and engineering to prioritize cost impact.
• Design FinOps tooling: data pipelines, APIs, and dashboards.
• Provide guidance on cloud cost optimization and architecture decisions.

Skills

Mentorship

Leadership

Cross-team collaboration

APIs

UIs

Data pipelines

Infrastructure as code

CI testing

AWS

SQL

Python

FinOps

Cost management

Education

B.S. in Computer Science, Math, Statistics, Engineering, or other quantitative field

Tools

Unity

Splunk

Datadog

JetBrains

Job description

• Come join our team at Zynga making an impact across all of the company’s games - Mobile Game Tech (MGT)
• Lead the FinOps team by setting technical direction, crafting and implementing backend services for our games
• We’re looking for outstanding engineers with a passion for technology and the desire to work in a team with dynamic strengths
• This unique position will challenge you to tackle situations across a broad set of technical stacks, to soak up internal business logic from all kinds of teams, and to drive cost efficiency improvements across the organization
• This FinOps team expands beyond just AWS and GCP and investigates cost optimization and unit economics for a variety of technology vendors
• Lead all technical aspects of the FinOps team’s software development and data analysis, including mentorship of software and cloud engineers
• Stay up-to-date on changes within Cloud Hosting Providers (AWS) and other vendor software (Unity, Splunk, Datadog, Jetbrains, etc) to identify new cost savings opportunities for the organization
• Propose and design new FinOps tooling using a wide array of patterns: Data Pipeline, API, Cron jobs, Slack bot, UI, SQL, NoSQL, Tableau
• Assist Product Management with prioritizing endeavors based upon organization impact, estimated cost reduction, and level of effort
• Assist Data Analysts with designing SQL tables and using Tableau effectively for accurate data analysis
• Coordinate with team members across the enterprise to ensure cost optimization and cost transparency initiatives are effective and valuable
• Partner with engineering, finance, and business teams to resolve ad hoc FinOps inquiries, provide actionable insights, and drive data-informed cost optimization decisions
• Serve as a technical advisor to internal customers and stakeholders, addressing complex FinOps-related questions and providing guidance on cloud cost optimization, architecture decisions, and best practices

Benefits

• WELLNESS - Gym benefits, wellness programs, employee assistance programs and generous time-off policies
• FOOD - Food and snacks made in-house or delivered, healthy snack kitchens with drinks and treats, coffee bars, regular social gatherings and happy hours
• WORK & LIFE - Flexible time-off policies (DTO), office rest areas, gaming spaces, employee discounts and more
• TRANSIT BENEFITS - Shuttle service in select locations, commuter/parking benefits, secure bicycle storage, business travel assistance
• RESOURCE GROUPS - Women at Zynga (WAZ), zCares charitable giving, zParents, zEndurance adventure club, BZU, zPride LGBTQ+ inclusion and belonging
• COMPENSATION - Performance bonuses, opportunities for equity participation & retirement/pension savings support
• HEALTH - Medical, dental & vision covered for employees, with participation for employees eligible dependents, plus disability and life insurance program
• FAMILY - Generous parental leave for birth parents, partners and adoptive families, plus Infertility support, emergency child care and flexible time-off policies

• Experience serving as a mentor to other engineers
• Experience leading projects from the ground up, breaking work into logical components, and delegating tasks
• B.S. in Computer Science, Math, Statistics, Engineering, or other quantitative field (or equivalent experience)
• Experience collaborating with customers across many teams and levels within an enterprise
• Hands-on experience developing APIs, UIs, and data pipelines
• Hands-on experience with infrastructure-as-code and continuous integration testing
• 8+ years of hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS)
• Experience serving as a technical leader in an enterprise (collaboration with 50+ teams)
• Hands-on experience with SQL tables and SQL queries
• Strong collaborative approach
• 8+ years of hands-on experience with software programming (preferably Python)
• Previous experience with FinOps practices and cost management analysis