Azure Senior FinOps Engineer

LSEG (London Stock Exchange Group); St. Louis (MO); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare benefits

Retirement planning

Volunteer days and wellbeing programs

Job summary

LSEG (London Stock Exchange Group) in St. Louis is seeking an Azure Senior FinOps Engineer to optimize cloud spending and govern Azure costs across environments.

You will partner with application, finance, and procurement teams, driving cost/performance improvements through data-driven analysis and automation. Responsibilities include building dashboards, implementing tagging standards, and automating FinOps tooling via APIs while staying current with industry trends and best practices for cloud

Qualifications

• 3–5 years of Azure Cloud FinOps experience with optimization
• Experience evaluating infrastructure for cost improvement without reducing performance
• Experience with REST APIs and automation
• Proficient in Python; scripting in PowerShell or Bash
• 5+ years in a large organization, similar role
• Excellent debugging and proactive analysis skills
• Fluent English in speech and writing

Responsibilities

• Analyze Azure pricing models, detect cost trends, and provide data-driven insights
• Ensure appropriate Azure services are used to avoid overspending
• Track KPIs for Azure financial performance and optimize tooling configurations
• Collaborate with platform teams to configure cost management tooling across environments
• Create dashboards to monitor cost trends and perform root-cause analyses
• Automate configuration and management of cost tooling via APIs
• Build pipelines for daily/weekly updates and automated reports
• Enforce tagging standards and implement new guidelines
• Translate business needs into PoCs or new features for stakeholders
• Stay updated on industry trends to advise on cost/performance improvements
• Collaborate with teams to break down complex requests using diagrams

Skills

Azure FinOps

Fluent English

Presentation skills

Problem solving

Education

Bachelors in CS/Software Eng

Tools

Python

REST APIs

PowerShell

Bash

Azure Cost Management

Job description

Role Description

An Azure Senior FinOps Engineer who combines financial operations (FinOps) expertise with deep technical knowledge of Microsoft Azure to help organizations manage, optimize, and govern their cloud spending effectively. The successful candidate would ideally have a proven background in technical engineering; be able to support the application teams at every stage of the application lifecycle to drive improvements with cost/performance; support Finance & Procurement teams to simplify complex billing data received; and to assist Architecture & Design teams where sharing cloud best practice and industrial experience aids long-term decision making!

Key Responsibilities

• Deep understanding of Azure Cloud Services and architectures, pricing models, and billing structures that will allow the candidate to perform deep dives and complex analysis of cost trends, anomalies, identify areas of improvement and support decision making with data driven-insights.
• Ensure that the appropriate Azure Services are used in each environment to avoid overspending.
• Establish and track KPIs for Azure Cloud Financial Performance.
• Collaborate with the platform teams to ensure that the Cost Financial Management tooling is configured accurately across all environments.
• Construct dashboards to analyze costs trends and anomalies to be able to perform a root cause analysis.
• Automate the configuration and management of Cloud Financial Management tooling via APIs.
• Configure pipelines that run daily/nightly/weekly for automatic updates of these configurations and automatic reports generation.
• Ensure that the tagging standards are respected and new guidelines are implemented.
• Demonstrable eagerness to learn the latest industry trends and can translate how these services or technologies can improve cost/performance for our business stakeholders.
• Collaborate with application teams to understand their approaches and designs to optimize performance and costs.
• Keep up to date with industry trends so that business collaborators and customers can be advised how to use the latest services to improve cost/performance ratios.
• Collaborate with other team members to understand and break down sophisticated requests using diagramming tools and team breakout sessions.
• Understand the needs of our internal customers: finance team, procurement team, business application team and propose new solutions to their challenges.

Minimum Requirements

• At least 3-5 years working experience with Azure Cloud Services and performing optimizations via rightsizing/modernization.
• Performed evaluation of existing infrastructure and created processes for cost improvement without reducing performance.
• Experience working with REST APIs and crafting automation based on REST APIs.
• Experience with object‑oriented programming in at least one language: Python preferred.
• At least 5+ years experience in a large‑scale organisation in a similar role.
• Experience with bash scripting or PowerShell scripting.
• Have excellent debugging skills and a proactive attitude when performing deep dive analysis.
• Have a proactive and positive attitude and be open to adapt to the changes and new challenges;
• Be able to understand the business requirements and translate them into PoCs/new features that can be presented as demos to our collaborators, partners and customers.
• Presentation skills required.
• Fluent English language verbal and written communication skills are required.

Nice to Have

• Our candidate is familiar with the FinOps Foundation framework and has an understanding of what reaching maturity means.
• Holds a degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or equivalent.
• Ideally, the candidate will have good knowledge of roles and permissions at cloud level, having experience with RBAC management and least privileged access.
• Ideally the candidate should have working experience with a public Cloud Financial Cost Management product and what it means to reach "run" maturity level.
• Understand common financial terms, key drivers, and concepts that Technology, Finance, Procurement, Accounts Payable and Receivable teams use day‑to‑day is important.

Benefits

LSEG offers a range of tailored benefits and support, including healthcare, retirement planning, paid volunteering days and wellbeing initiatives.

Equal Opportunity Employer

We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer. This means that we do not discriminate on the basis of anyone's race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. Conforming with applicable law, we can reasonably accommodate applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs.