FinOps Engineer Lead (Python exp. required)

Bank of America; United States; On-site; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Bank of America seeks a FinOps Engineer to manage cloud cost reporting, optimization, and governance across multiple cloud platforms. You will deliver accurate cost analytics, automate reporting, and support onboarding of Cloudability while collaborating with engineering and technology teams.

Ideal candidates have strong analytical skills, hands-on cloud cost reporting experience, and Python proficiency for data extraction and automation.

Qualifications

• Strong analytical skills and experience in cloud cost reporting.
• Working knowledge of Python for data extraction and report automation.
• Hands-on FinOps expertise across cloud platforms.

Responsibilities

• Collaborates with Development and Infrastructure teams to implement monitoring capabilities.
• Develops and maintains reliability scripts, tools and libraries for instrumentation and automation.
• Partners to implement code changes and help teams use reliability libraries.
• Participates in architecture community of practice meetings and related communications.
• Identifies vulnerabilities and opportunities for reliability improvement.
• Engages in major incident triage and failure scenario analysis with Problem Management.
• Provides ad hoc financial analysis and executive reporting on cloud spend and optimization.
• Designs a unified backend data platform and front-end service layer for cloud cost insights.
• Develops and maintains cloud financial reporting, dashboards, and automated processes.
• Supports FinOps activities including budgeting, forecasting, chargeback/showback, and variance analysis.
• Administers Cloudability and other FinOps tools ensuring data accuracy.
• Creates automated reporting and analytics solutions using Python, SQL, and related tools.
• Partners with Agile, engineering, and business teams to promote FinOps best practices.

Skills

Python

SQL

Cloud cost reporting

Data extraction

Monitoring

Automation

Tools

Cloudability

FinOps tools

Job description

Job Description:

At Bank of America, we are guided by a common purpose to help make financial lives better through the power of every connection. We do this by driving Responsible Growth and delivering for our clients, teammates, communities and shareholders every day.

Being a Great Place to Work and providing a culture of caring is core to how we drive Responsible Growth. We are intentional about fostering an inclusive workplace where every teammate has the opportunity to succeed, build a career and contribute to our shared success. This includes attracting and developing exceptional talent, recognizing and rewarding performance, and supporting our teammates' physical, emotional, and financial wellness through affordable, competitive and flexible benefits.

We value the unique perspectives individuals bring from all backgrounds and career paths - whether shaped by military service, community college education, or a wide range of work and life experiences. These journeys foster resilience, leadership and innovation, strengthening our workforce and positively impact the communities we serve.

Bank of America is committed to an in-office culture that supports collaboration, engagement, and career development. Our approach includes clear in-office expectations, while providing an appropriate level of flexibility based on role-specific responsibilities and business needs.

At Bank of America, you can build a successful career with opportunities to learn, grow, and make an impact. Join us!

LOB Description:

The FinOps Engineer will support cloud financial management activities by delivering accurate, timely, and actionable cost reporting and analysis across cloud platforms. This role will play a key part in supporting Cloudability integration and onboarding efforts while continuing to provide FinOps reporting and insights for multiple agile teams. The ideal candidate has strong analytical skills, hands‑on cloud cost reporting experience, and working knowledge of Python for data extraction and report automation.

Job Description:

This job is responsible for partnering with engineering and technology teams to implement measures prescribed by the Site Reliability Engineer teams it leads. Key responsibilities include ensuring appropriate instrumentation, tooling, ticketing, alerting and on call routines are in place for key services, demonstrating technical expertise within domains, and decomposing objectives into work units. Job expectations include advancing efficient solution delivery practices and promoting exceptional design, engineering, and organizational practices.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborates with Development and Infrastructure teams to understand technical solutions and implement monitoring capabilities outlined in the application and system monitoring designs put forward by the Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
• Develops and maintains reliability scripts, tools and libraries and leverages them for common instrumentation, automation, and operational needs, and when mentoring SRE resources on reliability practices and established tools/capabilities
• Partners to implement code changes to make use of common reliability libraries and tools and helps Application Production Services and Application Development teammates understand how to use them
• Participates regularly in architecture community of practice meetings and communication via other channels
• Identifies vulnerabilities and opportunities for reliability improvement, such as investigating low level error rates and 'noise' in monitoring, and defines solutions to reduce manual support effort and/or improve system reliability
• Engages as a subject matter expert in major incident triage efforts and failure scenario modelling and diagnosis with Problem Manager root causes for major incident/problem management investigations.
• Provide ad hoc financial analysis and executive reporting related to cloud spending and optimization initiatives.
• Design and establish a unified backend data platform and front-end service layer that provides a consistent, single interface for consuming cloud cost, usage, and optimization insights-enabling seamless integration, improved data accessibility, and standardized FinOps consumption across enterprise stakeholders.
• Develop and maintain cloud financial reporting, dashboards, and automated processes to provide visibility into cloud spend and resource utilization.
• Support FinOps activities including budgeting, forecasting, chargeback/showback, cost optimization, and variance analysis.
• Administer and support Cloudability and other FinOps tools, ensuring data accuracy, validation, and reporting integrity.
• Create automated reporting and analytics solutions using Python, SQL, and related tools to improve efficiency and streamline data processes.
• Partner with Agile, engineering, and business teams to promote FinOps best practices and improve financial accountability across cloud environments.
• Monitor cloud usage trend