Azure Senior Financial Operations Engineer

About Us:

LSEG (London Stock Exchange Group) is more than a diversified global financial markets infrastructure and data business. We are dedicated, open-access partners with a commitment to excellence in delivering the services our customers expect from us. With extensive experience, deep knowledge and worldwide presence across financial markets, we enable businesses and economies around the world to fund innovation, manage risk and create jobs. It’s how we’ve contributed to supporting the financial stability and growth of communities and economies globally for more than 300 years. Through a comprehensive suite of trusted financial market infrastructure services – and our open-access model – we provide the flexibility, stability and trust that enable our customers to pursue their ambitions with confidence and clarity.

LSEG is headquartered in the United Kingdom, with significant operations in 70 countries across EMEA, North America, Latin America and Asia Pacific. We employ 25,000 people globally, more than half located in Asia Pacific. LSEG’s ticker symbol is LSEG!

Role Description:

An Azure Senior FinOps Engineer who combines financial operations (FinOps) expertise with deep technical knowledge of Microsoft Azure to help organizations manage, optimize, and govern their cloud spending effectively.

The successful candidate would ideally have a proven background in technical engineering; be able to support the application teams at every stage of the application lifecycle to drive improvements with cost / performance; support Finance & Procurement teams to simplify complex billing data received; and to assist Architecture & Design teams where sharing cloud best practice and industrial experience aids long-term decision making!
 

Key Responsibilities:

The Azure Senior FinOps Engineer is responsible for working with our business key collaborators, partners and customers to enable an efficient use of Cloud during the application lifecycle.

• Deep understanding of Azure Cloud Services and architectures, pricing models, and billing structures that will allow the candidate to perform deep dives and complex analysis of cost trends, anomalies, identify areas of improvement and support decision making with data driven-insights.
• Ensure that the appropriate Azure Services are used in each environment to avoid overspending.
• Establish and track KPIs for Azure Cloud Financial Performance.
• Collaborate with the platform teams to ensure that the Cost Financial Management tooling is configured accurately across all environments.
• Construct dashboards to analyze costs trends and anomalies to be able to perform a root cause analysis.
• Automate the configuration and management of Cloud Financial Management tooling via APIs.
• Configure pipelines that run daily/nightly/weekly for automatic updates of these configurations and automatic reports generation.
• Ensure that the tagging standards are respected and new guidelines are implemented.
• Demonstrable eagerness to learn the latest industry trends and can translate how these services or technologies can improve cost / performance for our business stakeholders.
• Collaborate with application teams to understand their approaches and designs to optimize performance and costs.
• Keep up to date with industry trends so that business collaborators and customers can be advised how to use the latest services to improve cost/performance ratios.
• Collaborate with other team members to understand and break down sophisticated requests using diagramming tools and team breakout sessions.
• Understand the needs of our internal customers: finance team, procurement team, business application team and propose new solutions to their challenges. 

Minimum Requirements:

• At least 3-5 years working experience with Azure Cloud Services and performing optimizations via rightsizing/modernization.
• Performed evaluation of existing infrastructure and created processes for cost improvement without reducing performance.
• Experience working with REST APIs and crafting automation based on REST APIs.
• Experience with object-oriented programming in at least one language: Python preferred.
• At least 5+ years experience in a large-scale organisation in a similar role.
• Experience with bash scripting or PowerShell scripting.
• Have excellent debugging skills and a proactive attitude when performing deep dive analysis.
• Have a proactive and positive attitude and be open to adapt to the changes and new challenges;
• Be able to understand the business requirements and translate them into PoCs/new features that can be presented as demos to our collaborators, partners and customers.
• Presentation skills required.
• Fluent English language verbal and written communication skills are required.

Nice to have:

• Our candidate is familiar with the FinOps Foundation framework and has an understanding of what reaching maturity means.
• Holds a degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or equivalent.
• Ideally, the candidate will have good knowledge of roles and permissions at cloud level, having experience with RBAC management and least privileged access.
• Ideally the candidate should have working experience with a public Cloud Financial Cost Management product and what it means to reach “run” maturity level.
• Understand common financial terms, key drivers, and concepts that Technology, Finance, Procurement, Accounts Payable and Receivable teams use day-to-day is important.

LSEG is a leading global financial markets infrastructure and data provider. Our purpose is driving financial stability, empowering economies and enabling customers to create sustainable growth.

Our purpose is the foundation on which our culture is built. Our values of Integrity, Partnership, Excellence and Change underpin our purpose and set the standard for everything we do, every day. They go to the heart of who we are and guide our decision making and everyday actions.

Working with us means that you will be part of a dynamic organisation of 25,000 people across 65 countries. However, we will value your individuality and enable you to bring your true self to work so you can help enrich our diverse workforce. You will be part of a collaborative and creative culture where we encourage new ideas and are committed to sustainability across our global business. You will experience the critical role we have in helping to re-engineer the financial ecosystem to support and drive sustainable economic growth. Together, we are aiming to achieve this growth by accelerating the just transition to net zero, enabling growth of the green economy and creating inclusive economic opportunity.

LSEG offers a range of tailored benefits and support, including healthcare, retirement planning, paid volunteering days and wellbeing initiatives.

We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer. This means that we do not discriminate on the basis of anyone’s race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. Conforming with applicable law, we can reasonably accommodate applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs.

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