Senior FinOps Practitioner

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.

The Information Technology group delivers secure, reliable technology solutions that enable DTCC to be the trusted infrastructure of the global capital markets. The team delivers high-quality information through activities that include development of essential, building infrastructure capabilities to meet client needs and implementing data standards and governance.

• 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).

We are seeking a Fin Ops Practitioner to lead cloud financial optimization across AWS, Azure, and Snowflake environments within a regulated financial services organization. This role serves as a critical bridge between Finance, Engineering, Architecture, and Cloud Operations, ensuring that cloud investments are aligned with business objectives, financial discipline, and operational efficiency.

In this role, you will establish and mature Fin Ops capabilities aligned with the industry‑standard Fin Ops Foundation framework (Inform, Optimize, Operate) while driving governance, transparency, and accountability for cloud spend. You will partner closely with stakeholders to track Fin Ops objectives, influence architectural and consumption decisions, and embed a culture of fiscal responsibility across the organization.

• Establish and mature key Fin Ops capabilities aligned with the Fin Ops Foundation framework (Inform, Optimize, Operate) across AWS, Azure, and Snowflake environments.
• Lead Fin Ops practices to optimize and govern cloud spend across multi‑cloud and data platform ecosystems.
• Collaborate with Finance, Engineering, Architecture, Product, and Cloud Operations stakeholders to define, track, and measure Fin Ops objectives, ensuring ongoing visibility into cost performance and business outcomes.
• Develop and enforce cost allocation models, tagging standards, and chargeback/showback frameworks.
• Establish governance standards for resource usage, pricing model adoption (e.g., Reserved Instances, Savings Plans), and Snowflake warehouse and consumption optimization.
• Conduct detailed analysis of cloud and data platform cost data to identify savings opportunities, waste, and efficiency improvements.
• Implement and recommend rightsizing, scheduling, and reserved capacity strategies while balancing performance, resilience, and cost efficiency.
• Partner with engineering teams to influence architectural decisions through financial impact analysis and cost modeling.
• Collaborate with Finance and Business Unit leaders on budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, and financial planning for cloud and data platform expenses.
• Build and maintain cloud spend models that demonstrate historical trends, growth patterns, and unit‑cost metrics.
• Communicate cost insights and optimization outcomes to senior leadership through dashboards and executive‑ready reporting.
• Leverage cloud cost management and Fin Ops tooling (e.g., AWS Cost Explorer, Azure Cost Management, Snowflake Usage Views, Cloud Health, Cloud Aware, Cloudability) for continuous monitoring and reporting.
• Serve as a liaison across Finance, Engineering, Architecture, and Product teams to foster cost awareness, accountability, and informed decision‑making.
• Champion Fin…