FinOps Architect: Agentic AI for Cloud Optimization

Citi; Singapore; On-site; SGD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Citi is seeking a FinOps Analytics leader in Singapore to drive cloud cost optimization and governance. The role covers cost observability platforms, budgeting models, and real‑time cost management for cloud and on‑prem environments.

You will architect autonomous AI workflows, enforce guardrails, and collaborate with finance, engineering and product teams across the Citi tech stack. Responsibilities include optimizing cloud spend, building forecasting dashboards, and ensuring cost transparency

Qualifications

• Exposure to cloud architecture (AWS, Azure, GCP) with hands-on cost optimization experience.
• Strong knowledge of FinOps principles, cost models, and cloud financial governance.
• Understanding of LLMs, multi-agent architectures, RAG workflows, and AI cost models.
• Ability to design secure, budget-controlled environments for autonomous agents.

Responsibilities

• Optimize cloud architecture and provide technical cost advisory across AWS/Azure/GCP.
• Review high-spend services to identify inefficiencies and suggest code and infra changes.
• Promote cost-efficient design, serverless patterns, right-sizing and storage tiering.
• Build cost observability, real-time analytics, forecasting models, dashboards and anomaly detection for cloud budgets.
• Implement tagging standards, cost attribution, chargeback/showback, and governance policies.
• Integrate data from cloud providers, usage logs, telemetry, and AI agent activity streams.
• Oversee Agentic AI workflows and ensure safe, compliant automated optimizations.
• Lead cross-functional collaboration with finance, engineering and product teams on cost goals.

Skills

Cloud cost optimization

FinOps

Cost governance

LLMs & AI

AI architectures

Tools

Azure Copilot Optimization Agent

OpenTelemetry

Job description

Citi is seeking a FinOps Analytics leader in Singapore to drive cloud cost optimization and governance. The role covers cost observability platforms, budgeting models, and real‑time cost management for cloud and on‑prem environments.

You will architect autonomous AI workflows, enforce guardrails, and collaborate with finance, engineering and product teams across the Citi tech stack. Responsibilities include optimizing cloud spend, building forecasting dashboards, and ensuring cost transparency