Remote FinOps Analyst: Cloud Cost & Optimization Lead

FinOps Weekly

United States

Hybrid

USD 74,000 - 126,000

Full time

4 days ago

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Job summary

ICF seeks a Senior FinOps Analyst to support the Summit program, delivering cloud financial management across a federal data and analytics ecosystem. You will craft FinOps dashboards, analyze spend, and forecast costs to improve efficiency and performance.

You will partner with Product Operations, engineering, and leadership to surface cost impacts of architecture and workload decisions, and to document savings and optimization outcomes across Azure and Databricks.

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in Data Management, Information Systems, Data Governance, Business Analytics, Computer Science, Library/Information Science, or a related field; or a high school diploma plus four additional years of relevant experience.
At least 6 years of relevant experience aligned with FinOps, dashboarding, reporting, and analytics development.

Responsibilities

Build and maintain FinOps dashboards and executive reporting for cloud spend, utilization, trends and performance.
Analyze cloud consumption to identify optimization and rightsizing opportunities.
Create cloud cost forecasts and compare actual spend with projected usage.
Assess cost-performance tradeoffs across architecture, platform, data, and AI/ML.
Analyze Azure and Databricks consumption patterns for trends and optimization.
Surface cost impact of planned work before priorities are finalized.
Track and document savings and efficiency gains after implementation.
Translate cloud data into recommendations for technical teams and leadership.