Sr Manager Technology FinOps Dallas or Detroit metro

Senior Manager Technology- Cloud FinOps

The Senior Manager Technology for Cloud FinOps will be responsible for overseeing the financial operations of our cloud infrastructure. This senior leadership role requires a strategic thinker with deep expertise in cloud cost management, financial planning, and operational efficiency. The ideal candidate will have a proven track record of driving cost optimization and financial transparency in a cloud environment while supporting the company's growth and innovation objectives. This role sits at the intersection of finance strategy and technology, with a unique focus on surfacing the financial impact of platform architecture changes, optimizing cloud spend, and enabling smarter business decisions at scale.

• Develop and execute the Cloud FinOps strategy in alignment with Comerica's overall business objectives.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to develop, evaluate and implement best practices for horizontal and vertical scaling across cloud platforms.
• Ensure reliability, resiliency and performance through capacity planning, autoscaling policies and cost-optimization strategies.
• Lead, mentor, and develop a high-performing Cloud FinOps team, and collaborate with product, engineering teams and senior leadership to provide financial insights and recommendations related to cloud spending.
• Work cross functionally across teams to drive and implement cloud cost-saving initiatives and best practices to maximize cloud investment.
• Oversee the budgeting, forecasting, and financial planning processes for Comerica’s cloud infrastructure and analyze cloud spending data to identify trends, variances, and opportunities for cost optimization on an ongoing basis.
• Develop and implement a driver-based cost model to analyze and optimize cloud consumption for AWS, Azure and Google Cloud Platform (GCP). This model will be instrumental in identifying cost-saving opportunities, ensuring efficient cloud resource utilization, and driving financial accountability across all product and engineering teams using the cloud environments.
• Oversee the implementation and maintenance of cloud financial management tools and systems while leveraging technology to automate and improve cloud cost management and cloud financial operations.
• Work closely with other departments, including Product, Engineering, Finance, and IT, to support cloud initiatives, foster a culture of collaboration and communication across the organization, and provide training and support to teams on cloud cost management best practices.
• Develop and deliver regular reports and dashboards on cloud spending and financial performance, provide actionable insights to support strategic decision-making, and monitor and report on key performance indicators (KPIs) related to cloud financial operations.

Position Responsibilities:

 

Strategy

• Partner with corporate functional leaders and execute a technology strategy that will enhance overall business capabilities.
• Stay abreast of technology industry trends and best practices.
• Continuously transform the organization to increase efficiencies and reduce overall expense.
• Partner with innovation team to test and learn emerging technology and its viable applicability to enhance corporate business capabilities.

Delivery Planning and Execution

• Create, prioritize, plan and execute portfolio/product roadmaps through collaboration with Product Management and DevOps, including the on-going resequencing of projects in the portfolio roadmap as priorities shift.
• Complete 90% of projects within 5-10% of approved funding and 1 month of baselined completion date.
• Reduce time to market by utilizing Agile methodologies.
• Provides insights on risks based on broad experience. Develops project risk profile, mitigation plan and contingency plan.

Technology/Operational/ Risk Control

• Lead integration and synergy between architecture/technology planning and development initiatives, providing direction and decisions in application development to support platforms.
• Cultivate good system management disciplines including clearly defined and documented roles and responsibilities, documented phase processes and checkpoint and detailed planning for system deployment.
• Ensures compliance and control activities support technology and enterprise business objectives and are aligned with executive risk tolerances and expectations.
• Ensures processes and controls within assigned area to enhance performance, security, reliability and availability of systems.
• Drive a continuous improvement and compliant culture through documented policies, procedures and architecture.

Leadership

• Leads large size technical project teams or programs that span the enterprise.
• Manage the financials of the assigned area with attention to the details of budgets while exhibiting a strict cost discipline and financial performance.
• Manage and develop team cultivating a spirit of one team with shared goals and objectives.
• Select, motivate and retain high performing talent.
• Work with senior leaders to evolve culture and organizational behavior, elevating technology into a strategic partner.
• Act as the principal technology advisor to corporate organizations and a champion for identifying, leading, and driving information technology transformation.