Azure FinOps Lead - Cost Optimization & Governance

Julius Baer; Madrid; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Julius Baer in Madrid is seeking a Senior Azure FinOps Engineer to lead cost optimization across the Azure platform, collaborate with engineering and finance teams, and establish FinOps governance that drives business value.

The role emphasizes data-driven cost transparency, forecasting, and implementing showback and chargeback models, with opportunities to evolve into a leading FinOps function within the organization.

Qualifications

• Several years of hands-on experience in Azure engineering, Azure platform operations, cloud architecture, cloud financial management, or FinOps.
• Proven experience managing and optimizing Azure consumption, costs, budgets, reservations, savings plans and licensing models.
• Strong understanding of Azure services, subscriptions, management groups, resource governance, tagging strategies and cloud-native architectures.
• Experience establishing cost transparency through reporting, budgeting, forecasting, anomaly detection and cost governance processes by using tools such as Power BI or Azure Monitor.
• Ability to translate technical cloud consumption data into actionable recommendations and business-relevant insights for management and stakeholders.
• Experience in enterprise-scale environments; experience in banking, financial services, or other regulated industries is an advantage.
• Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business Information Systems, or a comparable discipline (HF/FH/University).
• Strong practical knowledge of Microsoft Azure administration, engineering, governance and cost management.
• Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code, automation, cloud governance frameworks, and container and cloud platforms, including AKS, is beneficial.
• Azure certifications (e.g., AZ-104, AZ-305) and FinOps Certified Practitioner certification are highly desirable.
• Excellent communication, consulting and stakeholder management skills combined with a strong analytical mindset, high level of initiative, ability to work independently and a collaborative, customer-focused approach.

Responsibilities

• Establish, own, and continuously improve FinOps practices, processes, and governance across the Azure platform.
• Analyse Azure consumption and spending patterns, identify optimization opportunities, and drive initiatives to reduce cloud costs through usage and rate optimization.
• Guide cloud engineers and architects in designing, implementing, and operating cost-efficient cloud solutions.
• Define and support the implementation of cost allocation, showback, and chargeback models across business units and customers.
• Support stakeholders and customers with cost estimations, budgeting, forecasting and financial impact assessments for new projects and cloud initiatives.
• Develop dashboards, reporting, alerts, and cost insights for engineering teams, management, finance, procurement, and customers to improve cost transparency and budget control.
• Periodically review and consolidate Azure Advisor recommendations, reservations, savings plans, licensing options, and optimization opportunities together with Microsoft specialists and internal stakeholders.
• Proactively promote cost awareness and accountability by challenging resource consumption patterns and helping customers optimize their cloud usage.

Skills

Azure engineering

Cloud architecture

FinOps

Cost management

Budgeting

Forecasting

Stakeholder management

Communication

Analytical mindset

Initiative

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IT/Engineering

Tools

Power BI

Azure Monitor

AKS

Job description

Julius Baer in Madrid is seeking a Senior Azure FinOps Engineer to lead cost optimization across the Azure platform, collaborate with engineering and finance teams, and establish FinOps governance that drives business value.

The role emphasizes data-driven cost transparency, forecasting, and implementing showback and chargeback models, with opportunities to evolve into a leading FinOps function within the organization.