Associate Director FinOps Practitioner for Data Cloud Platforms

Are you ready to make an impact at DTCC? 

Do you want to work on innovative projects, collaborate with a dynamic and supportive team, and receive investment in your professional development? At DTCC, we are at the forefront of innovation in the financial markets. We are committed to helping our employees grow and succeed. We believe that you have the skills and drive to make a real impact. We foster a thriving internal community and are committed to creating a workplace that looks like the world that we serve. 

Finance is one organization composed of ten functions forming the financial backbone of DTCC, leaders who stand at the forefront of DTCC’s competitive endeavors across the globe. From accountants and financial analysts to internal consultants and workplace designers, the CFO Organization employs diverse individuals who work together to help make DTCC a global leader in the financial services industry.

Pay and Benefits:
 

• Competitive compensation, including base pay and annual incentive
• Comprehensive health and life insurance and well-being benefits, based on location
• Pension / Retirement benefits
• Paid Time Off and Personal/Family Care, and other leaves of absence when needed to support your physical, financial, and emotional well-being.
• DTCC offers a flexible/hybrid model of 3 days onsite and 2 days remote (onsite Tuesdays, Wednesdays and a third day unique to each team or employee).

The Impact you will have in this role:

Your Primary Responsibilities:

• Monitor and analyze cloud data platform spending across services, environments, business units, projects, and data products.
• Develop dashboards and reports to track data cloud expenditure, consumption trends, unit costs, and budget utilization.
• Build cost allocation and chargeback/showback models for data platforms and shared data services.
• Identify cost anomalies, unexpected consumption spikes, and spending trends, and coordinate corrective actions.
• Reconcile cloud provider invoices and platform usage reports with internal financial records.
• Analyze consumption patterns across data warehouses, lakehouses, ETL/ELT pipelines, streaming workloads, and analytical queries.
• Identify optimization opportunities related to compute sizing, cluster utilization, workload scheduling, autoscaling, and resource concurrency. 
• Optimize query performance and workload design in collaboration with data engineering teams to reduce processing costs.
• Evaluate workload placement and platform choices based on performance, reliability, scalability, and total cost of ownership.
• Assess the financial impact of architectural decisions, including real-time versus batch processing and cloud-native versus managed data services.
• Develop and maintain budgets and forecasts for cloud data platforms and associated services.
• Analyze actual spending against budgets, forecasts, business demand, and historical consumption.
• Build predictive cost models based on data growth, workload volumes, user adoption, and business initiatives.
• Support financial planning for new data products, platform migrations, analytics initiatives, and AI workloads.
• Prepare financial variance analysis and communicate cost drivers, risks, and corrective actions to leadership.
• Implement FinOps policies, controls, standards, and operating procedures for data cloud services.
• Establish ownership for data platform costs across engineering teams, product owners, and business stakeholders.
• Establish governance for budget thresholds, anomaly alerts, cost optimization actions, and escalation procedures.
• Develop standardized KPIs and maturity assessments to measure the effectiveness of data cloud FinOps.
• Define and monitor unit-cost metrics relevant to data services.
• Automate cost reporting, anomaly detection, budget monitoring, and optimization recommendations.
• Partner with platform engineering teams to introduce cost controls and guardrails into CI/CD and infrastructure-as-code pipelines.

Qualifications:

• Minimum of 8 years of related experience

• Bachelor's degree preferred or equivalent experience

Talents Needed for Success:

• 5–8 years of experience in data cloud cost management, data cloud operations or data cloud engineering, ideally in financial services or a regulated industry.
• Deep working knowledge of Snowflake billing, pricing models, and optimization levers is a key requirement. Data platforms Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery, Redshift, Microsoft Fabric, Synapse, or similar
• Experience managing multi-cloud cost reporting and governance frameworks.
  Strong understanding of FinOps principles, budgeting, forecasting, and cloud cost transparency practices.
• Advanced Excel and data visualization skills (e.g., Power BI, Tableau, or QuickSight).
  Excellent communication and collaborator management skills with both technical and finance audiences.
• FinOps Certified Practitioner or FinOps Certified Professional credential.
• Familiarity with ITIL, Cloud Governance.
• Experience with data platforms and Snowflake usage optimization.
• Proficiency in scripting or SQL for custom cost analytics and automation.
• Strategic and analytical problem solver with attention to detail
• Strong financial literacy and business insight
• Ability to influence across engineering and finance teams
• Proactive attitude for continuous improvement and innovation
• Strong leadership and collaborator communication

The salary range is indicative for roles at the same level within DTCC across all US locations. Actual salary is determined based on the role, location, individual experience, skills, and other considerations. We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.