FinOps Specialist: Databricks & Cloud Cost Optimization

Scicominfra; Atlanta, Northern (GA, KY); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Scicom Infrastructure Services is seeking a FinOps Specialist to oversee cost visibility, forecasting, financial governance, and optimization for a large Databricks and cloud data platform.

You will partner with engineering, operations, finance, procurement, and leadership to monitor cloud spend, identify savings, improve cost allocation, and keep platform spending aligned with projects and business objectives.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting, business, information technology, data analytics, or a related field.
• At least five years of FinOps or cloud cost optimization experience.
• Experience analyzing Databricks or other cloud data-platform costs.
• Experience with Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud pricing, billing, and cost-management tools.
• Strong budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, cost allocation, and optimization skills.
• Experience with showback, chargeback, tagging, invoice reconciliation, and commitment management.
• Strong Excel or financial-modeling skills.
• Ability to translate technical usage data into clear financial recommendations.
• Strong analytical, communication, reporting, and stakeholder-management skills.

Responsibilities

• Monitor Databricks and cloud spending across workspaces, projects, teams, environments, and workloads.
• Track Databricks compute usage, SQL warehouses, jobs, storage, networking, and related cloud services.
• Identify idle, oversized, underutilized, or inefficient resources.
• Recommend improvements involving cluster sizing, autoscaling, job scheduling, and serverless compute.
• Develop monthly, quarterly, and annual budgets and forecasts.
• Compare actual costs against budgets and investigate significant variances.
• Create cost-allocation models by client, project, contract, cost center, team, or data product.
• Build dashboards and reports covering spend, trends, forecasts, anomalies, savings, and commitment utilization.
• Configure budgets, thresholds, alerts, and financial guardrails.
• Review invoices for accuracy and reconcile charges against usage and contract terms.
• Evaluate reserved capacity, savings plans, and enterprise agreements.
• Maintain a register of optimization opportunities and track realized savings.
• Provide financial estimates for new workloads and architectural changes.
• Help technical teams understand the financial impact of platform decisions.
• Support development of FinOps policies and cost-aware engineering practices.

Skills

FinOps

Budgeting & Forecasting

Cost Allocation

Showback/Chargeback

Excel/Financial Modeling

Stakeholder Management

Databricks Cost Experience

Cloud Pricing Tools

Education

Bachelor’s degree in finance/related field

Tools

Azure Cost Management

AWS Cost Explorer

Google Cloud Billing

Power BI

Tableau

Job description

Scicom Infrastructure Services is seeking a FinOps Specialist to oversee cost visibility, forecasting, financial governance, and optimization for a large Databricks and cloud data platform.

You will partner with engineering, operations, finance, procurement, and leadership to monitor cloud spend, identify savings, improve cost allocation, and keep platform spending aligned with projects and business objectives.