FinOps Architect, Cloud

Location: St. John's

Why You’ll Love Softchoice
We are a software-focused IT solutions and services provider that equips organizations to be agile and innovative, and for their people to be engaged, connected, and creative t means moving them to the cloud, helping them build the workplace of tomorrow, and enabling them to make smarter decisions about their technology. By doing these things we help them create success for their customers and their people.

The Impact You Will Have
Softchoice is seeking a Cloud Fin Ops Architect to expand its Financial Operations (Fin Ops) and Cloud Economics capabilities. You will support and manage client engagements advising at the highest strategic level with big-picture thinking and tactical guidance on how Fin Ops enables cloud cost governance and business benefits realization. You must possess financial, technical, and creative thinking capabilities. You will need to be ambitious, innovative, and personable, possessing outstanding leadership qualities in working with our customers.

This role guides customers through three elements of Fin Ops – Inform, Optimize, and Operate so that customers can continue to iterate on their own over time. The Architect connects clients to unique perspectives, industry frameworks, and transformative thinking that inspires them to drive the culture of the Fin Ops capabilities of their business together with Softchoice and the Softchoice partner ecosystem.

You will co-create, accelerate, and drive adoption toward optimizing what the client spends and what they use in the public cloud based on customer knowledge and empathy.

What You’ll Do
As a Cloud Fin Ops Architect, you will play a critical role supporting a team in driving the facilitation of Fin Ops services, workshops, and customer engagements.

Be an active contributor and play a key role in the end-to-end client engagement – driving awareness, understanding current capabilities, and advancing future outcomes. This involves all business value chain activities, from procurement, finance, cloud engineering, line of business, and executives addressing their needs and valued outcomes.

Develop expertise in the capabilities of Fin Ops technology platforms such as Cloud Health, Cloudability, and Flexera. Connect and align with other Softchoice services and solutions contributors and leaders to drive additional support for our clients and their needs.

Facilitate and contribute to service engagements by conducting customer interviews.

Lead and conduct workshops and working sessions and creating customer presentations and deliverables.

Seeing the big picture with the ability to start small and guide customers through various lenses of strategic, technical, and business benefits of instilling Fin Ops cultural understanding to continue their innovation independently.

You will develop a growth mindset and relish opportunities to use familiar and unfamiliar technologies, technics, and processes. You will embrace Fin Ops and Cloud Economics practices and contribute to providing feedback to our GTM product team for continual improvements. Through cross functional collaboration, you will also hone your business and consulting skills through interactions with technical and non-technical colleagues. Finally, you will be an active learner, identifying new or better ways to deliver impact with people and technology.

What You’ll Bring To The Table

Minimum 2 years experience in IT Finance or consulting in Cloud Advisory & IT Strategy Services

Currently hold or become certified as a Fin Ops practitioner within 3 months of starting the role and the Fin Ops platform (such as Cloud Health)

Strong consultative experience within the different domains that make up IT Finance and Public Cloud Consumption

Results-driven and goal-oriented

Strong communication and collaboration skills

Demonstrated, applied experience establishing and delivering advanced workshops, supporting custom projects and holding customer conversations and engagement across engineering, finance, production, and product ownership teams

Collecting and interpreting cloud data sets to identify trends, patterns, and actionable insights, to then communicating findings…