Cloud FinOps Architect

Airbus Group India Pvt Ltd; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 900,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working arrangements

Job summary

Airbus India Private Limited is seeking a Cloud FinOps Architect to lead long-term cloud cost strategies and optimization across AWS, GCP, and Azure. You will partner with executives to align cloud spend with business roadmaps and drive governance, automation, and finance-technical alignment.

The role requires deep FinOps expertise, strong analytics, and the ability to translate complex cost data into actionable engineering decisions. Based in India with global collaboration opportunities.

Qualifications

• Expert multi-cloud acumen with a deep production understanding of cloud consumption and pricing models across AWS, GCP, and Azure.
• Fluent in cloud pricing strategies (RI/SP, spot) and their impact on modern architectures.
• Bridge between enterprise finance and infrastructure engineering; can translate financials to technical impact.
• Proven ability to influence global teams and drive high-stakes cost optimizations.
• Experience deploying advanced FinOps platforms and observability tools.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute long-term cloud cost management strategies, including budgeting and forecasting across enterprise scale.
• Design cost-optimization frameworks from telemetry to actionable engineering recommendations.
• Establish governance and compliance around cloud financial controls and regulations.
• Lead FinOps tooling selection and integration to improve cost visibility.
• Create dashboards and KPIs to report usage and spend across AWS, GCP, and Azure.
• Advise executives on aligning cloud spend with business roadmaps and forecasts.
• Evangelize cost-awareness and build training programs for engineering teams.
• Present savings opportunities and roadmaps directly to C-suite levels.

Skills

Cloud FinOps

Multi-Cloud

Cost Optimization

Automation

DevOps

Kubernetes

Executive communication

Stakeholder management

Tools

CloudHealth

Apptio Cloudability

Vantage

Tableau

Power BI

Amazon QuickSight

Job description

Lead Technology Analyst – Finops E3 Job Description

Role: Cloud FinOps Architect
Number of positions: 1

Airbus pioneers sustainable aerospace for a safe and united world. The company constantly innovates to provide efficient and technologically-advanced solutions in aerospace, defense, and connected services. In commercial aircraft, Airbus offers modern and fuel-efficient airliners and associated services. Airbus is also a European leader in defense and security and one of the world's leading space businesses. In helicopters, Airbus provides the most efficient civil and military rotorcraft solutions and services worldwide.

Are you passionate about IT, experienced in cloud technologies and convinced by digital transformation that generates business value for large organizations? Vacancy for Cloud FinOps Architect (f/m) in the cloud team have arisen within Airbus in Bangalore, India. Your role: + 8-10 years experience.

Responsibilities

• Strategic Financial Engineering: Author and execute long‑term cloud cost management strategies, encompassing macro‑level budgeting, predictive forecasting, and automated cost allocation models across enterprise scales.
• Architectural Efficiency Optimization: Continuously analyze deep multi‑cloud usage patterns to architect cost‑optimization frameworks, translating complex telemetry into highly actionable engineering and architectural recommendations.
• Governance & Compliance Stewardship: Establish, champion, and enforce enterprise‑grade cloud financial governance policies. Institutionalize strict compliance with internal financial controls, external data/financial regulations, and global FinOps frameworks.
• FinOps Tooling & Ecosystem Leadership: Strategically evaluate, implement, and orchestrate advanced FinOps platforms and observability tools to enhance absolute cloud cost visibility. Drive the integration of next‑generation FinOps technologies and automation trends.
• Multi‑Cloud KPI & Reporting Design: Architect, build, and oversee high‑fidelity dashboards and KPIs that deliver granular, real‑time usage and spend statistics across a complex, multi‑cloud landscape (AWS, GCP, Azure).
• Executive Stakeholder Advisory: Partner with senior business and technology leaders to align cloud spend with overarching corporate roadmaps, product growth trajectories, and budgeted financial forecasts.
• Value Demystification & Business Value Realization: Act as a critical advocate for internal customers, breaking down complex cloud cost economics to maximize unit economic efficiency and accelerate business value.
• Culture of Accountability & Evangelism: Institutionalize a corporate culture of cost awareness by delivering advanced training, mentoring engineering teams, and establishing accountability models such as gamified optimization or chargeback structures.
• Executive Reporting & Presenting: Synthesize intricate financial and infrastructure data into strategic executive summaries, presenting clear, high‑impact savings recommendations directly to C‑suite and senior VP levels.

Qualifications & Technical Mastery

• Expert multi‑cloud acumen: deep, production‑level understanding of cloud‑based resource consumption and complex pricing matrices across AWS, GCP, and Azure.
• Advanced cloud architecture & finances fluency: mastery of cloud pricing models (RI/SP management, spot strategies), optimization methodologies, and their systemic impact on modern cloud‑native architectures.
• The “Finance‑Tech” bridge: a proven, unique capability to sit at the intersection of enterprise finance and infrastructure engineering, seamlessly speaking the language of both accounting and systems architecture.
• Cross‑organizational influence: strong leadership presence with a demonstrated ability to partner across global business units and assertively drive high‑stakes cost optimization negotiations.
• Enterprise tooling expertise: extensive hands‑on experience deploying and leveraging advanced third‑party cloud cost optimization platforms (e.g., CloudHealth, Apptio Cloudability, Vantage, or native cloud enterprise hubs).
• Automation & DevOps mindset: strong champion of continuous optimization; possessing an automation‑first mindset with proven experience embedding cost‑control mechanisms into DevOps pipelines, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and microservice architectures.
• Core engineering foundation: a robust technical background spanning large‑scale cloud infrastructure, virtualization, container orchestration (Kubernetes/EKS/GKE), enterprise databases, and global networking topologies.
• High‑impact communication: superior articulation skills, with a track record of translating abstract technical dependencies into fiscal impacts for financial stakeholders, and vice versa.
• Agile practice & stakeholder orchestration: proven success leading and navigating complex, multi‑stakeholder initiatives using Agile Scrum and Kanban methodologies.
• Customer‑centric advisory: a natural habit of putting internal/external customers first, combining empathy, technical depth, and strong negotiation skills to bridge user needs with cost‑efficient tech stacks.

Preferred Strategic Qualifications

• Data & Programming capability: practical experience leveraging SQL, Python, or specialized data‑science libraries to query, manipulate, and model massive scale cloud billing datasets (e.g., AWS CUR).
• Advanced data visualization: proficiency in constructing enterprise‑ready data narratives using advanced visualization suites (e.g., Tableau, PowerBI, Amazon QuickSight).
• Advanced cloud certification: professional or expert‑level certification in AWS, Azure, or GCP (e.g., AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional).
• FinOps professional credentials: FinOps Certified Professional or FinOps Certified Practitioner designation.

This job requires an awareness of any potential compliance risks and a commitment to act with integrity, as the foundation for the company’s success, reputation and sustainable growth.

Company: Airbus India Private Limited
Employment type: Permanent
Experience level: Professional
Job family: Digital

Airbus is committed to achieving workforce diversity and creating an inclusive working environment. We welcome all applications irrespective of social and cultural background, age, gender, disability, sexual orientation or religious belief. Airbus is, and always has been, committed to equal opportunities for all. As such, we will never ask for any type of monetary exchange in the frame of a recruitment process. Any impersonation of Airbus to do so should be reported to [e-mail].

At Airbus, we support you to work, connect and collaborate more easily and flexibly. Wherever possible, we foster flexible working arrangements to stimulate innovative thinking.