Senior Director, Data Observability & FinOps – GCP

Revolution Technologies; Houston (TX); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Revolution Technologies in Houston, TX, seeks a senior leader to drive Data Observability and FinOps across a large-scale Google Cloud Platform Data & AI ecosystem. The role blends data architecture, cloud, AI/ML, and governance to ensure reliable, observable platforms while improving cost visibility.

The leader will guide architecture and governance, provide technical direction, and partner with engineering, analytics, and finance teams to deliver measurable platform improvements.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in data architecture, observability, and governance.
• Strong cloud FinOps understanding with measurable cost optimization impact.
• Proven ability to lead cross-functional data platforms on GCP.

Responsibilities

• Define enterprise data observability strategy across cloud data and AI platforms.
• Establish data quality, lineage, SLA/SLOs, and proactive monitoring.
• Lead cost visibility for data/AI workloads and drive cost optimization.
• Provide architecture guidance and governance for data platforms.
• Collaborate with engineering, finance, and operations to remediate issues.
• Create executive dashboards and reporting on platform health and cost.

Skills

Data Architecture

Data Engineering

Data Platforms

Data Reliability

Data Observability

Cloud FinOps

Leadership

Tools

BigQuery

dbt

Dataform

Vertex AI

Job description

Revolution Technologies in Houston, TX, seeks a senior leader to drive Data Observability and FinOps across a large-scale Google Cloud Platform Data & AI ecosystem. The role blends data architecture, cloud, AI/ML, and governance to ensure reliable, observable platforms while improving cost visibility.

The leader will guide architecture and governance, provide technical direction, and partner with engineering, analytics, and finance teams to deliver measurable platform improvements.