Director, FinOps and Cloud Optimization

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Job Description:

Director, FinOps and Cloud Optimization

The Role

The Director, FinOps and Cloud Optimization leads Fidelity Brokerage through connecting the Enterprise strategy, governance, automation, and financial accountability for technology investments across Cloud and AI usage and adoption.

Key Responsibilities

• Define and execute Enterprise FinOps strategy across cloud, and AI platforms.

• Lead executive reviews of cloud, platform, and AI spend and present recommendations to senior leadership.

• Drive forecasting, budgeting, chargeback, showback, and optimization programs.

• Partner with engineering teams to improve utilization, efficiency, and cost transparency.

• Lead FinOps tooling, automation, tagging governance, allocation models, and reporting capabilities.

• Establish tagging standards and cost governance controls.

• Develop executive dashboards, KPIs, and operational scorecards.

• Own AI cost governance including AI credit consumption, model usage, inference costs, forecasting, allocation methodologies, and executive reporting.

• Drive AI credit optimization initiatives and provide reporting on AI spend, consumption trends, business-unit allocations, and ROI.

• You will provide enterprise accountability for cloud and AI spend while enabling innovation, improving forecasting accuracy, increasing financial transparency, and delivering measurable technology optimization outcomes for Fidelity Brokerage

The Expertise & Skills You Bring

• 10 plus years of experience in FinOps, cloud financial management, engineering, cloud operations, or technology finance.
• Leadership experience managing enterprise-scale optimization and governance programs.
• Deep understanding of AWS, Azure, cloud economics, billing models, and optimization techniques.
• Experience supporting AI, and generative AI platforms.
• Strong executive communication, financial modeling, and stakeholder management skills.
• FinOps certification, experience with Coin, Cloudability, CloudHealth, Databricks, Snowflake, automation frameworks, APIs, and AI cost governance programs.

The Team

The Fidelity Brokerage Tech Health team is central to mapping and delivering priorities across the Brokerage Technology organization. We are the connection point between the Enterprise Technology and Fidelity Brokerage Technology Business Units to educate, align, and implement Projects through partnering closely with Engineering Leaders to promote prioritized work items, lead the daily operation to deliver each effort.

Members of our team are highly dynamic, team-oriented and partner with each other and business partners. We are passionate about good communication, leading by example, seeking to continuously improve and solve complex challenges leveraging automation and cross-collaboration to scale. We demonstrate leadership behaviors valued at Fidelity; we evolve and sustain an innovative culture that emphasizes efficiency, collaboration, quality, and speed to market to achieve prioritized business outcomes.

Fidelity’s Onsite Working Model
Fidelity is transitioning to a full-time onsite working model through a phased rollout across regions and roles. Currently, some roles and locations require 100% onsite presence, while others require less. Onsite expectations are likely to evolve as the rollout continues. This transition does not apply to fully remote roles.

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Please be advised that Fidelity’s business is governed by the provisions of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Investment Advisers Act of 1940, the Investment Company Act of 1940, ERISA, numerous state laws governing securities, investment and retirement-related financial activities and the rules and regulations of numerous self-regulatory organizations, including FINRA, among others. Those laws and regulations may restrict Fidelity from hiring and/or associating with individuals with certain Criminal Histories.