FinOps Architect: Optimize Cloud Costs & Data Platforms

FinOps Weekly; Dublin; Hybrid; EUR 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

FinOps Weekly is seeking a FinOps Architect to optimize cloud costs and shape data platform architectures across AWS, Databricks and Palantir. You will partner with engineering, data, finance, and operations to drive savings and governance while improving workload efficiency.

The role focuses on cost allocation, tagging governance, and automated cost reporting, with a strong emphasis on stakeholder communication and ROI analysis.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree and 5 years relevant experience in AWS, Databricks and Palantir.
• Proficiency with AWS Cost Explorer, Budgets, Cost Anomaly Detection, Savings Plans, RI and Compute Optimizer.
• Familiarity with optimizing Databricks workloads and cost governance.
• Hands-on SQL and scripting to automate cost workflows and reporting.
• Strong budget forecasting, capacity planning and ROI analysis.
• Experience establishing tagging strategies and governance for cost visibility.

Responsibilities

• Analyze AWS cost and usage to spot patterns, anomalies and optimization opportunities.
• Develop reports and dashboards using Cost Explorer and FinOps platforms.
• Recommend rightsizing, Savings Plans and Reservations for cost efficiency.
• Monitor Databricks DBU usage, tagging, cluster config, auto-scaling and policies.
• Define cost allocation models for Palantir workloads and integrate metrics.
• Identify cost drivers in data pipelines and feature deployments for optimization.
• Establish tagging standards and governance for cross-account visibility.
• Automate cost governance signals like budgets, alerts and provisioning controls.
• Drive FinOps adoption by coordinating with engineering, finance and cloud ops.
• Facilitate cross-functional cost review forums and governance cadences.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Communication

Automation

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

AWS

Databricks

Palantir

SQL

Job description

FinOps Weekly is seeking a FinOps Architect to optimize cloud costs and shape data platform architectures across AWS, Databricks and Palantir. You will partner with engineering, data, finance, and operations to drive savings and governance while improving workload efficiency.

The role focuses on cost allocation, tagging governance, and automated cost reporting, with a strong emphasis on stakeholder communication and ROI analysis.