Lead Technology Analyst - Finops E3

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Job Description

Role : Cloud FinOps Architect

Number of positions : 1

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Airbus pioneers sustainable aerospace for a safe and united world.

The Company constantly innovates to provide efficient and technologically-advanced solutions in aerospace, defense, and connected services. In commercial aircraft, Airbus offers modern and fuel-efficient Airliners and Associated Services. Airbus is also a European leader in Defense and Security and one of the world's leading space businesses. In Helicopters, Airbus provides the most efficient civil and military rotorcraft solutions and services worldwide.

Are you passionate about IT, experienced in Cloud Technologies and convinced by Digital Transformation that generates Business value for large organizations?

Vacancy for Cloud FinOps Architect (f/m) in the Cloud Team have arisen within Airbus in Bangalore, India,.

Your Role:+ 8-10 years Experience

With the Digital Transformation of Airbus at full pace, the information technology ecosystem of the company is completely being redesigned and looking to take advantage of the best in class digital technology available in the market to deliver business value. Cloud is one of the main enablers of this transformation.

In that context, Airbus IT teams are being entirely reshaped and seeking a Cloud FinOps Architect, whose responsibility will be to ensure we get the most value out of every dollar we spend in the cloud. As a Cloud FinOps Architect, you will be a member of the cloud computing team continuously innovating and improving our path on cloud optimization, while helping to drive a culture of accountability regarding efficient cloud usage.

Your Responsibilities / Architectural Mandate:

• Strategic Financial Engineering: Author and execute long-term cloud cost management strategies, encompassing macro-level budgeting, predictive forecasting, and automated cost allocation models across enterprise scales.
• Architectural Efficiency Optimization: Continuously analyze deep multi-cloud usage patterns to architect cost-optimization frameworks, translating complex telemetry into highly actionable engineering and architectural recommendations.
• Governance & Compliance Stewardship: Establish, champion, and enforce enterprise-grade cloud financial governance policies. Institutionalize strict compliance with internal financial controls, external data/financial regulations, and global FinOps frameworks.
• FinOps Tooling & Ecosystem Leadership: Strategically evaluate, implement, and orchestrate advanced FinOps platforms and observability tools to enhance absolute cloud cost visibility. Drive the integration of next-generation FinOps technologies and automation trends.
• Multi-Cloud KPI & Reporting Design: Architect, build, and oversee high-fidelity dashboards and KPIs that deliver granular, real-time usage and spend statistics across a complex, multi-cloud landscape ($AWS, GCP, Azure$).
• Executive Stakeholder Advisory: Partner with senior business and technology leaders to align cloud spend with overarching corporate roadmaps, product growth trajectories, and budgeted financial forecasts.
• Value Demystification & Business Value Realization: Act as a critical advocate for internal customers, breaking down complex cloud cost economics to maximize Unit Economic efficiency and accelerate business value.
• Culture of Accountability & Evangelism: Institutionalize a corporate culture of cost awareness by delivering advanced training, mentoring engineering teams, and establishing accountability models (such as gamified optimization or chargeback structures).
• Executive Reporting & Presenting: Synthesize intricate financial and infrastructure data into strategic executive summaries, presenting clear, high-impact savings recommendations directly to C-suite and Senior VP levels.

Qualifications & Technical Mastery:

• Expert Multi-Cloud Acumen: Deep, production-level understanding of cloud-based resource consumption and complex pricing matrices across AWS, GCP, and Azure.
• Advanced Cloud Architecture & FinOps Fluency: Mastery of cloud pricing models (RI/SP management, spot strategies), optimization methodologies, and their systemic impact on modern cloud-native architectures.
• The "Finance-Tech" Bridge: A proven, unique capability to sit at the intersection of Enterprise Finance and Infrastructure Engineering, seamlessly speaking the language of both accounting and systems architecture.
• Cross-Organizational Influence: Strong leadership presence with a demonstrated ability to partner across global business units and assertively drive high-stakes cost optimization negotiations.
• Enterprise Tooling Expertise: Extensive hands-on experience deploying and leveraging advanced 3rd-party cloud cost optimization platforms (e.g., CloudHealth, Apptio Cloudability, Vantage, or native cloud enterprise hubs).
• Automation & DevOps Mindset: Strong champion of Continuous Optimization (CO); possessing an automation-first mindset with proven experience embedding cost-control mechanisms into DevOps pipelines, Infrastructure as Code (IaaC), and microservice architectures.
• Core Engineering Foundation: A robust technical background spanning large-scale cloud infrastructure, virtualization, container orchestration ($Kubernetes/EKS/GKE$), enterprise databases, and global networking topologies.
• High-Impact Communication: Superior articulation skills, with a track record of translating abstract technical dependencies into fiscal impacts for financial stakeholders, and vice versa.
• Agile Practice & Stakeholder Orchestration: Proven success leading and navigating complex, multi-stakeholder initiatives using Agile Scrum and Kanban methodologies.
• Customer-Centric Advisory: A natural habit of putting internal/external customers first, combining empathy, technical depth, and strong negotiation skills to bridge user needs with cost-efficient tech stacks.

Preferred Strategic Qualifications:

• Data & Programming Capability: Practical experience leveraging SQL, Python, or specialized data science libraries to query, manipulate, and model massive scale cloud billing datasets (e.g., AWS CUR).
• Advanced Data Visualization: Proficiency in constructing enterprise-ready data narratives using advanced visualization suites (e.g., Tableau, PowerBI, Amazon QuickSight).
• Advanced Cloud Certification: Professional or Expert-level certification in AWS, Azure, or GCP (e.g., AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional).
• FinOps Professional Credentials: FinOps Certified Professional or FinOps Certified Practitioner designation.

This job requires an awareness of any potential compliance risks and a commitment to act with integrity, as the foundation for the Company’s success, reputation and sustainable growth.

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