Director, Cloud FinOps & AI Cost Optimization

Fidelity Investments Inc.; Westlake (TX); On-site; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

Fidelity Investments Inc. is seeking a Director of FinOps and Cloud Optimization to lead enterprise cost governance across cloud and AI platforms. You will align finance, governance, and automation with technology investments and report to senior leadership.

In this role, you will drive forecasting, budgeting, cost transparency, and optimization programs, partnering with engineering to improve utilization and accountability. Onsite work is required.

Qualifications

• 10+ years 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, business-unit allocations, and ROI.
• Provide enterprise accountability for cloud and AI spend while enabling innovation, improving forecasting accuracy, increasing financial transparency, and delivering measurable technology optimization outcomes for Fidelity Brokerage

Skills

Leadership experience

Executive communication

Forecasting & budgeting

FinOps

Cloud economics

AI platforms

Tools

Coin

Cloudability

CloudHealth

Databricks

Snowflake

Automation frameworks

APIs

Job description

Fidelity Investments Inc. is seeking a Director of FinOps and Cloud Optimization to lead enterprise cost governance across cloud and AI platforms. You will align finance, governance, and automation with technology investments and report to senior leadership.

In this role, you will drive forecasting, budgeting, cost transparency, and optimization programs, partnering with engineering to improve utilization and accountability. Onsite work is required.