Remote Senior FinOps Analyst - Cloud Cost & Optimization

ICF; Reston (VA); Remote; USD 74,000 - 126,000; Full time

Job summary

ICF is seeking a Senior FinOps Analyst to provide cloud financial management expertise for the Summit program. This remote role supports federal clients with dashboards, forecasts, and optimization recommendations across platform, data, and AI/ML workloads.

Strong collaboration with Product Operations, engineering, and data teams is essential to balance cost, utilization, and performance while delivering clear, actionable guidance to leadership.

Qualifications

• U.S. Citizenship required for federal contract roles.
• Residency/work authorization in the U.S. for all work performed within the U.S.
• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field or 4 additional years of related experience in lieu of degree.
• Minimum 6 years of experience developing dashboards, reports, and analytics.

Responsibilities

• Develop FinOps dashboards and executive reporting for cloud spend, utilization, trends, and performance.
• Analyze cloud consumption to identify cost optimization and efficiency opportunities.
• Forecast cloud costs and compare against projected usage and demand.
• Evaluate cost-performance tradeoffs for architecture, platform, data, and AI/ML decisions.
• Analyze Azure and Databricks consumption to spot trends and optimization opportunities.
• Collaborate with product operations and leads to expose cost impact before prioritizing work.
• Document cost savings and efficiency improvements after implementations.
• Translate cloud data into actionable recommendations for technical and leadership audiences.
• Establish metrics and reporting to improve accountability for cloud consumption.
• Support ongoing FinOps practices including cost allocation and governance.
• Identify unusual spending patterns and coordinate root-cause actions.

Skills

FinOps

Cloud cost management

Azure

Databricks

Power BI

Dashboards & reporting

Forecasting

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher in a related field

3+ years of related experience substituting for degree

Tools

Azure

Databricks

Power BI

Job description

ICF is seeking a Senior FinOps Analyst to provide cloud financial management expertise for the Summit program. This remote role supports federal clients with dashboards, forecasts, and optimization recommendations across platform, data, and AI/ML workloads.

Strong collaboration with Product Operations, engineering, and data teams is essential to balance cost, utilization, and performance while delivering clear, actionable guidance to leadership.