Responsibilities

• Work directly with Bazaarvoice leaders to help them understand their AWS spend and optimize it based on their unique architecture and desired business outcomes. This will include leveraging cloud cost data and documentation to support your work.
• Work with a high degree of autonomy, though you won’t be alone–you’ll have a team there to help when you need it.
• Communicate across multiple internal customer personas, from Engineering to Finance, and up to C-Suite staff
• Build and maintain tools to improve our execution of cost optimization projects
• Work directly with internal customers to help them understand their AWS spend and optimize it based on their unique architecture and desired business outcomes
• Keep up to date on the latest AWS news and changes
• Continually work at being an expert in all-things-AWS, especially from a cost standpoint, and disseminate your knowledge to the team whenever possible
• Maintain and improve the quality of deliverables and internal documentation.
• Mentor and level up technical knowledge of fellow colleagues.

Skills

• Financial Acumen: Ability to produce and present value propositions through quantitative financial analysis
• Business Acumen: Through effective discovery, extract a customer’s unique financial and operational pain points and business outcomes and align Bazaarvoice solutions accordingly
• Detail-Oriented Focus:  Very strong attention to detail, to ensure financial summaries are exact and complete.
• Build vs Buy Mindset:  Ability to grasp the technical requirements for both Bazaarvoice and competing solutions, including public cloud providers and traditional IT vendors
• Communication Effectiveness:  Ability to explain complex problems and solutions in a concise and easy to understand and compelling way

Requirements

• Prior experience in AWS cost management.  
• Strong understanding of the business and strategic needs around cloud computing
• Strong knowledge of AWS concepts, tools, and services.
• Demonstrable history of self-direction. 
• Ability to self-start and self-regulate your work, and communicate clearly when you need help.
• Excellent verbal, written, and client-facing communications skills. 
• Prior ample experience communicating effectively with executive audiences
• A desire to improve the AWS practitioner community by sharing knowledge. 
• A knack for putting people at ease when discussing the systems they’ve built, which will allow you to dive deep into an environment and make improvement recommendations.
• Meticulous attention to detail

Required experience

• Demonstrated financial modeling capabilities in an IT context (ROI analysis, TCO Analysis, Cloud Costing, Technology Business Management, Financial Analyst roles)
• Knowledge of financial budgeting practices, capital vs. operating expense items, and software purchasing
• Strong MS Office skills
• Strong TCO/ROI development proficiency
• AWS Certifications: AWS Solutions Architect: Professional (Desirable)