FinOps and Technology Business Management (TBM)

Strategic Growth Partners; Washington (District of Columbia); Hybrid; USD 96,000 - 179,000; Full time

Job summary

Strategic Growth Partners is partnering with a leading global professional services firm to seek a FinOps and TBM leader who will bridge finance, engineering, and operations to optimize on-premises and cloud IT investments.

This full-time engagement requires active Top Secret clearance, willingness to travel up to 80%, and hands-on design of cost models, governance, and automation across government and commercial programs.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional experience in cloud and on‑prem cost management and FinOps.
• FinOps Practitioner or FinOps Engineer certification strongly preferred; TBM certification a plus.
• Demonstrated 15–30% cloud and hybrid IT cost savings delivery on prior engagements.
• Strong data analytics and visualization skills - experience with SQL, PowerBI, or equivalent.
• DoD or federal FinOps, cost recovery, or working capital fund experience strongly preferred.
• Bachelor's degree required; Finance, Computer Science, or MIS preferred.
• Comfortable with travel up to 80%, including on-site work as required.
• Active Top Secret Clearance; SCI eligibility preferred where required by the engagement.
• United States Citizenship; physically resides in the United States.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute comprehensive FinOps and TBM strategies aligned with mission goals and DWCF cost-recovery requirements, detailing frameworks, processes, and governance.
• Create and maintain FinOps roadmaps embedding cost-conscious practices into engineering and architecture lifecycles.
• Design KPI frameworks with clear targets and accountability mechanisms to monitor FinOps delivery.
• Establish governance frameworks for tagging, budgeting, and resource accountability - including guardrails to prevent unnecessary resource allocation.
• Drive automation and transparency in cost reporting, anomaly detection, and forecasting - providing real-time visibility into combined on-premises and cloud spend across mission partners.
• Build per-service and per-user cost baselines and pricing transparency that customers can use to compare current costs with rates and plan budgets, including advance cost estimates for emerging services.
• Build ROI models and cost reduction business cases that quantify optimization impact for executive audiences.
• Integrate findings into A&M's broader engagement scope and deliverables.
• Build a unified TBM-based cost model that maps on-premises and cloud costs to IT towers, services, and mission partners, enabling like-for-like comparison and workload placement decisions.
• Support practice development through internal training, content creation, and people development.

Skills

FinOps

TBM

Cloud cost management

Data analytics

SQL

PowerBI

Federal contracting knowledge

Citizenship

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

FOCUS

AWS Cost Explorer

Azure Cost Management

GCP Billing

Apptio

Flexera

CloudHealth

Job description

Strategic Growth Partners provides both operations and strategic support to commercial organizations. Our client is a leading global professional services firm dedicated to helping organizations tackle their most complex business issues, maximize stakeholder value, and deliver sustainable change.

Their Corporate Performance Improvement practice is looking for a FinOps and Technology Business Management (TBM) leader who bridges finance, engineering, and operations to align on-premises, cloud, and enterprise IT investments in a single combined. This is both a strategic role - defining combined on-premises and cloud financial management and TBM roadmaps - and a hands‑on tactical role designing and implementing cost avoidance and cost reduction measures.

Workplace Type: 80% travel. Hybrid.

Employment Type: Full-Time.

Clearance: Active Top Secret Clearance; SCI eligibility preferred where required by the engagement.

Compensation: Hourly rate is DOE.

Experience Should Include:

• Combined on-premises and cloud cost modeling, optimization, and benchmarking (government and/or commercial comparables) including AI workloads, and cost analysis of task orders.
• FinOps and TBM framework implementation - governance, tagging taxonomy, chargeback/show-back models and KPI frameworks.
• FinOps Open Cost and Usage Specification (FOCUS).
• Technology Business Management (TBM) - TBM Taxonomy cost pools, towers, and solutions; mapping on-premises data center, network, labor, and licensing costs together with cloud spend into one unified cost model.
• Workload rightsizing, auto-scaling, and commitment-based discount strategy (reserved instances, savings plans, committed-use agreements), including in classified or restricted cloud regions
• Orphaned/unused resource identification (cloud and on-premises) and remediation - VM rightsizing, guardrails, tagging automation.
• Native cloud cost management tools (AWS Cost Explorer, Azure Cost Management, GCP Billing, Oracle Cloud cost tools) and third-party FinOps and TBM platforms (Apptio, Flexera, CloudHealth) approved for government use.
• Government cost recovery and rate setting - working capital fund rate development, full-cost recovery principles, per-service and per-user cost baselines, and separating consumption-driven charges from fixed overhead.
• Enterprise software licensing consolidation and optimization, including duplicate licensing across organizations and classification levels.
• AI-assisted cost anomaly detection, forecasting, and optimization recommendation engines - must demonstrate active use of AI tools in delivery, within tools approved for the environment; AI fluency is required for this role.
• Federal Contracting, including working knowledge of FAR and DFARS requirements and task order ordering procedures.

Responsibilities:

• Develop and execute comprehensive FinOps and TBM strategies aligned with mission goals and DWCF cost-recovery requirements, detailing frameworks, processes, and governance.
• Create and maintain FinOps roadmaps embedding cost-conscious practices into engineering and architecture lifecycles.
• Design KPI frameworks with clear targets and accountability mechanisms to monitor FinOps delivery.
• Establish governance frameworks for tagging, budgeting, and resource accountability - including guardrails to prevent unnecessary resource allocation.
• Drive automation and transparency in cost reporting, anomaly detection, and forecasting - providing real-time visibility into combined on-premises and cloud spend across mission partners.
• Build per-service and per-user cost baselines and pricing transparency that customers can use to compare current costs with rates and plan budgets, including advance cost estimates for emerging services.
• Build ROI models and cost reduction business cases that quantify optimization impact for executive audiences.
• Integrate findings into A&M's broader engagement scope and deliverables.
• Build a unified TBM-based cost model that maps on-premises and cloud costs to IT towers, services, and mission partners, enabling like-for-like comparison and workload placement decisions.
• Support practice development through internal training, content creation, and people development.

Qualifications:

• 8+ years of professional experience in cloud and on-premises cost management, FinOps, and TBM practice development.
• FinOps Practitioner or FinOps Engineer certification strongly preferred; TBM certification (e.g., TBM Council) a plus.
• Demonstrated 15–30% cloud and hybrid IT cost savings delivery on prior engagements.
• Strong data analytics and visualization skills - experience with SQL, PowerBI, or equivalent.
• DoD or federal FinOps, cost recovery, or working capital fund experience strongly preferred; demonstrated cost optimization at scale in any large enterprise remains the primary qualifier.
• Bachelor's degree required; Finance, Computer Science, or MIS preferred.
• Comfortable with travel up to 80%, including on-site work as required.
• Full-time, contract, and project-based engagements available.
• Active Top Secret Clearance; SCI eligibility preferred where required by the engagement.
• United States Citizenship.
• Physically resides in the United States.
• Ability to meet DoD information system access and training requirements, including annual cyber awareness training and, where applicable, DoD 8140 workforce qualification.

What Distinguishes a Great Candidate:

Has built FinOps practices from scratch in large enterprises - not just reported on costs. Can do rate negotiation strategy and explain cost and rate structures clearly to non-finance customers. Understands both the financial and engineering levers of cost optimization across on-premises and cloud environments, and how fixed-overhead and consumption-driven costs should be treated differently in a cost-recovery environment. Brings AI-powered cost analytics and forecasting as standard practice, not as an add-on.