Lead Cloud & AI FinOps Architect

Autodesk; New York (NY); On-site; USD 98,000 - 175,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Paid time off

Wellness program

Comprehensive benefits

Job summary

Autodesk seeks a Senior Cloud & AI FinOps Analyst to expand FinOps services across multi-cloud infrastructure, SaaS AI platforms, and developer tools. You will drive self-service capabilities, improve spend visibility, and automate cost optimization workflows using AWS, Azure, GCP, and AI apps.

You will lead a FinOps Champion Network and collaborate across engineering, finance, product, cloud, and automation teams to improve cost governance, forecasting, and attribution.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, Information Systems, Information Technology, or related field.
• 5+ years of experience as a Business Systems Analyst or FinOps Analyst.
• Experience eliciting requirements, mapping processes, facilitating stakeholders, and delivering stakeholder-facing capabilities.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, including metric definition, data validation, ambiguity management, and evidence-based communication.
• Hands-on experience building and maintaining dashboards using Apptio Cloudability, Apptio BI, Turbonomic, or comparable tools.

Responsibilities

• Own stakeholder-facing FinOps capabilities, including dashboards, reporting, documentation, enablement, automation, and intake workflows.
• Manage the FinOps services portal as the central self-service resource for cloud and AI services, optimization guidance, license support, and budget assistance.
• Maintain the FinOps operating model, including roadmap planning, backlog prioritization, and continuous improvement.
• Lead a FinOps Champion Network across engineering, finance, and product teams.
• Promote governance practices such as showback and chargeback, KPI standardization, infrastructure tagging, and AI tool user attribution.
• Build and maintain dashboards and reporting in Apptio Cloudability, Apptio BI, and Turbonomic.
• Define metric standards, validate data quality, and improve reporting usability.
• Track AI application usage, user seats, license utilization, and token consumption across developer and corporate tools.
• Analyze spend anomalies, monthly variances, and major cost drivers, and communicate findings to stakeholders.
• Establish allocation logic and tagging requirements for accurate cost attribution to business units.
• Productize cost optimization activities through automation, recommendations, approvals, execution, and verification.
• Support cloud and AI spend forecasting, budget tracking, and variance analysis.
• Improve cloud rates and AI vendor economics through commitments and discounts.
• Partner with cloud and automation teams to implement guardrails.

Skills

FinOps

Dashboarding

Apptio Cloudability

Apptio BI

Turbonomic

Cloud billing

AWS

Azure

GCP

Stakeholder management

Automation requirements

Education

Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, Information Systems, Information Technology, or related field

Tools

Apptio Cloudability

Apptio BI

Turbonomic

Job description

Autodesk seeks a Senior Cloud & AI FinOps Analyst to expand FinOps services across multi-cloud infrastructure, SaaS AI platforms, and developer tools. You will drive self-service capabilities, improve spend visibility, and automate cost optimization workflows using AWS, Azure, GCP, and AI apps.

You will lead a FinOps Champion Network and collaborate across engineering, finance, product, cloud, and automation teams to improve cost governance, forecasting, and attribution.