Director, Data Observability & FinOps Leader

Revolution Technologies; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Short-Term Disability

Health Savings Account (HSA)

Tuition Reimbursement

401(k)

Life Insurance

Supplemental Insurance Options

Paid Time Off

Job summary

Revolution Technologies seeks a senior Observability & Data FinOps Leader to drive reliability and financial accountability across a large-scale cloud data ecosystem. Leading enterprise Data Observability, FinOps, and platform governance, you will guide a strategic program on GCP and BigQuery while collaborating with data engineering, analytics, and AI/ML teams.

The role emphasizes establishing enterprise standards, roadmaps, and executive reporting to optimize cloud investments and data

Qualifications

• 8+ years leading enterprise data platforms, observability, or DataOps.
• Experience building strategy, roadmaps, operating models, and governance for data platforms.
• Strong background in data reliability, pipeline monitoring, data quality, and incident management.

Responsibilities

• Define and lead enterprise Data Observability and Data FinOps strategy across data engineering, platforms, analytics, and AI/ML.
• Establish a framework for monitoring data pipelines, platform health, data quality, and reliability; set SLAs, SLOs, KPIs, alerts, and root-cause analysis.
• Drive cost visibility, forecasting, allocation, optimization, and financial governance for cloud spend on GCP and BigQuery.
• Identify and implement automated remediation, anomaly detection, and AI-driven observability enhancements.
• Provide executive-level reporting on platform reliability, performance, and cloud cost trends.

Skills

Data Observability

Data Reliability

DataOps Leadership

Cloud Cost Optimization

Leadership & Strategy

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Engineering/Data Science

Tools

GCP

BigQuery

Job description

Revolution Technologies seeks a senior Observability & Data FinOps Leader to drive reliability and financial accountability across a large-scale cloud data ecosystem. Leading enterprise Data Observability, FinOps, and platform governance, you will guide a strategic program on GCP and BigQuery while collaborating with data engineering, analytics, and AI/ML teams.

The role emphasizes establishing enterprise standards, roadmaps, and executive reporting to optimize cloud investments and data