FinOps Solution Architect

Flexera; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 125,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as a FinOps Solution Architect, where you'll leverage your expertise to drive customer success through innovative FinOps solutions. This role involves collaborating with diverse teams to optimize technology spend and enhance customer journeys. You'll play a crucial part in consulting with clients, understanding their needs, and delivering tailored solutions that align with their strategic goals. With opportunities to engage directly with customers and contribute to product development, this position offers a dynamic environment where your insights will shape the future of FinOps. If you're passionate about technology and customer success, this role is an exciting opportunity to make a significant impact.

Qualifications

• Expertise in Cloud Financial Management with a focus on vendor billing.
• Strong understanding of RESTful APIs and scripting languages like JavaScript.

Responsibilities

• Act as a subject matter expert for FinOps solutions.
• Partner with sales and success teams to enhance customer journey.

Skills

Cloud Financial Management (FinOps)

RESTful APIs

Customer-centric mindset

Technical influence

Education

Certified FinOps Practitioner

Cloud Solution Architect certification

Tools

Postman

AWS Cost Explorer

Cloudability

CloudHealth

Job description

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FinOps Solution Architect

Apply locations Home-United Kingdom time type Full time posted on Posted Yesterday job requisition id 15308

Flexera saves customers billions of dollars in wasted technology spend. A pioneer in Hybrid ITAM and FinOps, Flexera provides award-winning, data-oriented SaaS solutions for technology value optimization (TVO), enabling IT, finance, procurement and cloud teams to gain deep insights into cost optimization, compliance and risks for each business service. Flexera One solutions are built on a set of definitive customer, supplier and industry data, powered by our Technology Intelligence Platform, that enables organizations to visualize their Enterprise Technology Blueprint in hybrid environments—from on-premises to SaaS to containers to cloud.

As a FinOps Solution Architect at Flexera, you'll join our dynamic Solutions organization, collaborating closely with Enterprise & Strategic sales, Solutions Success, Enablement, and Support teams. Your primary responsibility will be to identify business value and drive architectural solutions that enable customer success through Flexera’s FinOps solutions.

You will consult with both new and existing customers, helping to understand their business requirements and leveraging Flexera’s solutions to deliver value that aligns with their strategic goals across the entirety of the customer’s journey. Additionally, you'll contribute to our global FinOps Architecture & Advisory and Technical Account Management teams, bridging internal stakeholder groups and functional areas to continually enhance our solutions in response to evolving customer needs, market trends, and technological advancements.

The Product:

Flexera One offers a comprehensive approach to FinOps, including the full framework, lifecycle and scopes. This includes identifying savings opportunities, implementing optimizations, and automating processes across the hybrid estate.

Main Responsibilities:

1. Act as a subject matter expert for Flexera’s FinOps solutions.
2. Partner with sales representatives, solution engineers, success managers, advisors, and other team members to enable success throughout the customer journey.
3. Assist solutions engineers when needed as the subject matter expert in discovery calls to uncover customer needs and objectives.
4. Assist in technical validation initiatives to support the solutions engineers when needed, as the subject matter expert.
5. Engage with the product development process on an ongoing basis to provide valuable field insights to product management and engineering teams.
6. Develop best practices for technical validation processes with the enablement team to ensure Solutions Engineers are best positioned to succeed.
7. Travel up to 25% of the time to engage directly with customers and support sales, customer success, and renewal efforts.

Qualifications:

1. Certified FinOps Practitioner.
2. Certification as a Cloud Solution Architect or equivalent; Azure/Google certification is a plus.
3. Proficiency in working with RESTful APIs, API tools (e.g., Postman), or scripting languages (e.g., JavaScript, Python) is a plus.
4. Strong experience in Cloud Financial Management (FinOps), with a deep understanding of cloud vendor billing and discount mechanisms.
5. Familiarity with cloud vendor native tools (e.g., AWS Cost Explorer) and third-party solutions (e.g., Cloudability, CloudHealth).
6. Customer-centric mindset with a strong dedication to achieving customer success.
7. Technical influence and the ability to serve as a trusted advisor to customers.

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Flexera is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will be considered for open roles regardless of age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by local/national laws, policies and/or regulations.

Flexera understands the value that results from employing a diverse, equitable, and inclusive workforce. We recognize that equity necessitates acknowledging past exclusion and that inclusion requires intentional effort. Our DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) council is the driving force behind our commitment to championing policies and practices that foster a welcoming environment for all.

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