AI FinOps Lead: Cost-Efficient AI Operations

LGT Financial Services AG, Vaduz, Zweigniederlassung Zürich/Schweiz; Zürich; On-site; CHF 110,000 - 165,000; Full time

Job summary

LGT Financial Services AG in Zürich is seeking an AI Operations Specialist with a technical IT background to optimize AI usage and costs across projects, products and platforms. You will collaborate with developers, data scientists, platform teams and Finance, analysing usage data to drive actionable cost improvements.

The role focuses on governance, budgeting and reporting for AI initiatives, including cost observability across major cloud providers.

Qualifications

• Two to three years of experience in a technical IT role such as software development, application operations or cloud engineering, with FinOps or cloud cost management
• Strong understanding of modern AI and machine learning ecosystems, including platforms such as AWS SageMaker, Bedrock, Azure AI Services and Azure OpenAI
• Experience with cost observability and monitoring tools
• Excellent analytical skills with the ability to interpret usage data, identify anomalies and provide practical recommendations
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, translating technical data into financial explanations
• Very good German and English language skills for clear communication with diverse audiences

Responsibilities

• Track AI costs at a granular level, including API calls, token usage, model runs and infrastructure consumption
• Build and maintain reports, dashboards and forecasting models for AI workload growth and budget utilization
• Identify opportunities to reduce costs through right-sizing and more efficient usage patterns
• Monitor AI usage across AWS, Azure and GCP for governance and cost control
• Support planning, forecasting and budgeting for AI initiatives and funding alignment
• Act as a link between data scientists, engineers, product teams and Finance to translate AI challenges into financial requirements

Skills

Technical IT experience

FinOps

Cost observability

AI/ML ecosystems

Stakeholder management

German & English fluency

Tools

AWS SageMaker

Bedrock

Azure AI Services

Azure OpenAI

Job description

LGT Financial Services AG in Zürich is seeking an AI Operations Specialist with a technical IT background to optimize AI usage and costs across projects, products and platforms. You will collaborate with developers, data scientists, platform teams and Finance, analysing usage data to drive actionable cost improvements.

The role focuses on governance, budgeting and reporting for AI initiatives, including cost observability across major cloud providers.