Principal Software Developer - FinOps Austin, TX; Toronto, Canada

Zynga; Austin (TX); Hybrid; USD 119,140 - 169,140; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401(K) plan

Paid vacation and holidays

Wellness programs

Commuter benefits

Job summary

Zynga is seeking an Analyst in Austin, Texas to support FinOps by delivering critical insights into service costs, developing data visualizations, and collaborating with stakeholders. The role requires a B.S. in a quantitative field and 8+ years of experience with SQL and data visualization tools. Employees benefit from a comprehensive package including medical, dental, 14 paid holidays, vacation time, and wellness programs. The salary range for this position is between $119,140 and $169,140 annually, depending on experience.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of hands-on experience with SQL, data warehouses, Tableau, or similar data visualization tools.
• Demonstrated proficiency with Python for data cleaning and data wrangling.
• Ability to think through the UI/UX of data visualizations to best serve the audience.

Responsibilities

• Lead financial analysis activities for internal cost allocations.
• Engage with customers to design user-facing data visualizations.
• Develop data ingestion and normalization to support data visualizations.

Skills

Financial analysis

Data visualization

SQL

Python

Collaboration with stakeholders

Data quality monitoring

Education

B.S. in Computer Science, Math, Statistics, Engineering, or equivalent experience

Tools

Tableau

AWS

Splunk

Datadog

Job description

Position Overview

Come join the team at Zynga making an impact across all of the company’s games - Mobile Game Tech! Do you love developing data models and visualizations to help teams make strategic decisions? This analyst role is a key figure in our cost transparency efforts on the FinOps team, delivering critical insights into service costs. This position also provides dashboards, data visualizations, and analyses for areas that make our org effective at serving our internal customers, allowing all teams to make better decisions.

What You’ll Do

• Lead financial analysis activities with regards to internal cost allocations for technology spend
• Lead data model design and data analysis aspects of the FinOps team’s software development, including close collaboration with other FinOps software engineers
• Engage with customers and stakeholders to design and iterate upon user-facing data visualizations
• Develop data ingestion and normalization to serve data visualizations and dashboards, as well as owning maintenance and ensuring ongoing data quality
• Support FinOps guidelines and work with other teams and partners to implement cost analysis and optimizations for technology spend across Zynga
• Interact with members of Finance and the C-suite with regards to technology cost allocations, forecasts, and ad hoc FinOps-related requests

What You Bring

• B.S. in Computer Science, Math, Statistics, Engineering, or other quantitative field (or equivalent experience)
• Demonstrated proficiency with Python for data cleaning and data wrangling (pandas, NumPy), and ability to work with source code via pull requests, CICD pipelines, etc
• 8+ years of hands‑on experience with the following: SQL, data warehouses, Tableau or similar data visualization tools
• Ability to design monitoring rules for validating data quality within data pipelines
• Experience collaborating with customers to assess their analysis and visualization needs and design solutions that present the data effectively and clearly
• Ability to think through the UI/UX of data visualizations to best serve the target audience’s needs
• Comfort interacting with stakeholders at a much more senior level, ability to adjust communication style to the audience
• Experience working autonomously and capable of tackling solo projects with ease

Bonus Points

• Familiarity with FinOps practices
• Familiarity with financial concepts related to budgeting, forecasts, amortization, etc
• Previous experience with software engineering platforms such as AWS, Splunk, Datadog

What We Offer You

Zynga offers a world-class benefits package that helps support and balance the needs of our teams. To find out more about our benefits, visit the Zynga Benefits site.

The pay range for this position in Ontario at the start of employment is expected to be between $119,140 and $169,140 per year. However, base pay offered is based on market location, and may vary further depending on individualized factors for job candidates, such as job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and other objective business considerations.

Subject to those same considerations, the total compensation package for this position may also include other elements, including a bonus and/or equity awards and eligibility to participate in our 401(K) plan and Employee Stock Purchase Program. Regular, full‑time employees are also eligible for a range of benefits at the Company, including: medical, dental, vision, and basic life insurance coverage; 14 paid holidays per calendar year; paid vacation time per calendar year (ranging from 15 to 25 days) or eligibility to participate in the Company’s discretionary time off program; up to 10 paid sick days per calendar year; paid parental and compassionate leave; wellbeing programs for mental health and other wellness support; family planning support through Maven; commuter benefits; and reimbursements for fitness-related expenses.

We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer, which means we are committed to creating and celebrating diverse thoughts, cultures, and backgrounds throughout our organization. Employment with us is based on substantive ability, objective qualifications, and work ethic – not an individual’s race, creed, color, religion, sex or gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin or ancestry, alienage or citizenship status, physical or mental disability, pregnancy, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, status as a victim of domestic violence or sex offenses, reproductive health decision, or any other characteristics protected by applicable law.