Cloud FinOps Leader: AI Cost Optimization & Strategy

Fidelity; United States; On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Fidelity seeks a Director of FinOps and Cloud Optimization to lead end-to-end financial stewardship of cloud and AI initiatives. You will align enterprise strategy, governance, automation, and cost accountability across technology investments, driving transparency and measurable optimization outcomes.

You will partner with engineering and finance to forecast, budget, and report on cloud and AI spend, establishing governance, dashboards, and successful ROI tracking.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in FinOps, cloud financial management, engineering, cloud operations, or technology finance.
• Leadership experience managing enterprise-scale optimization and governance programs.
• Deep understanding of AWS, Azure, cloud economics, billing models, and optimization techniques.
• Experience supporting AI and generative AI platforms.
• Strong executive communication, financial modeling, and stakeholder management skills.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute Enterprise FinOps strategy across cloud and AI platforms.
• Lead executive reviews of cloud, platform, and AI spend and present recommendations to senior leadership.
• Drive forecasting, budgeting, chargeback, showback, and optimization programs.
• Partner with engineering teams to improve utilization, efficiency, and cost transparency.
• Lead FinOps tooling, automation, tagging governance, allocation models, and reporting capabilities.
• Establish tagging standards and cost governance controls.
• Develop executive dashboards, KPIs, and operational scorecards.
• Own AI cost governance including AI credit consumption, model usage, inference costs, forecasting, allocation methodologies, and executive reporting.
• Drive AI credit optimization initiatives and provide reporting on AI spend, consumption trends, allocations, and ROI.
• Provide enterprise accountability for cloud and AI spend while enabling innovation and delivering optimization outcomes.

Skills

FinOps

Executive communication

Financial modeling

Stakeholder management

Cloud cost optimization

Leadership

AWS/Azure cost economics

Tools

Coin

Cloudability

CloudHealth

Databricks

Snowflake

APIs

Job description

Fidelity seeks a Director of FinOps and Cloud Optimization to lead end-to-end financial stewardship of cloud and AI initiatives. You will align enterprise strategy, governance, automation, and cost accountability across technology investments, driving transparency and measurable optimization outcomes.

You will partner with engineering and finance to forecast, budget, and report on cloud and AI spend, establishing governance, dashboards, and successful ROI tracking.