FinOps Engineer

SEI is seeking a FinOps Engineer to improve cost transparency, automation, accountability, and optimization across Azure, AWS, OCI, Snowflake, GitHub Copilot, Devin, and other SaaS and AI/token-based services. This role will build scalable FinOps practices that help workload teams understand and own their spend while aligning technology consumption to business value.

This is an engineering-aligned enablement role focused on tooling, reporting, automation, and governance.

Role purpose:

Operationalize enterprise FinOps capabilities that make cloud, data platform, developer productivity, and AI consumption visible, measurable, and accountable.

Guiding principles:

• Use automation, tooling, dashboards, alerts, and standards to scale cost management.
• Enable workload teams to understand, forecast, and own their spend.
• Reinforce FinOps as a shared responsibility across Engineering, Finance, Procurement, Product, Business Management, and Leadership.

What you’ll do:

• Establish Cloud workload cost estimation, forecasting, budgeting, alerting, and spend review processes across SEI’s cloud, data, developer productivity, and AI platforms.

• Standardize Cloud and AI cost reporting, allocation, tagging, KPIs, showback/chargeback inputs, and GL mapping in partnership with Business Management and Finance.

• Identify spend anomalies, analyze cost drivers, track optimization opportunities, and coordinate remediation with accountable workload teams.

• Analyze reservations, savings plans, committed-use discounts, enterprise agreements, and usage trends to support Procurement, Finance, and Business Management decisions.

• Perform quarterly and annual reviews to identify cost trends, recurring issues, lessons learned, tooling gaps, and opportunities to improve automation, standards, and governance.

What we would like from you:

• 5+ years of experience in cloud engineering, platform engineering, DevOps, FinOps, technology finance, analytics.
• Working knowledge of consumption-based cloud platforms like Azure, AWS, OCI, Snowflake, GitHub Copilot, AI/token-based services.
• Hands-on experience with cloud cost management, billing, tagging, allocation, budgeting, forecasting, reporting, and optimization.
• Billing data aggregation and normalization across providers to enable consistent dashboards and reporting.
• Technical ability to develop dashboard UI’s, reports, KPIs, and analytics using tools such as Power BI, SQL, Python, APIs, cloud-native cost tools, or data pipelines.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to translate complex usage and billing data into clear recommendations.

What we need from you:

• Engineering-oriented, analytical, automation-minded, and comfortable with evolving usage and billing data.
• Ability to influence without authority and guide teams toward cost-aware decisions.
• Collaborative across Engineering, Finance, Procurement, Product, Business Management, and Leadership.
• Ability to work comfortably with a wide range of people and skill sets.
• Excellent problem solving skills with a focus on repeatable processes.

SEI’s competitive advantage:

To help you stay energized, engaged and inspired, we offer a wide range of benefits including comprehensive care for your physical and mental well-being, a strong retirement plan, tuition reimbursement, support for working parents and flexible Paid Time Off (PTO) so you can relax, recharge and be there for the people you care about. 

Benefits include healthcare (medical, dental, vision, prescription, wellness, EAP, FSA), life and disability insurance (premiums paid for base coverage), 401(k) match, education assistance, commuter benefits, up to 11 paid holidays/year, 21 days PTO/year pro-rated for new hires which increases over time, paid parental leave, back-up childcare arrangements, paid volunteer days, a discounted stock purchase plan, investment options, access to thriving employee networks and more.

We are a technology and asset management company delivering on our promise of building brave futures (SM)—for our clients, our communities, and ourselves.  Come build your brave future at SEI.  

The position title reflected in this job description is aligned with SEI's current internal job architecture. As part of SEI's role and career framework, internal job titles may not directly correspond to external market titles and may differ from titles previously assigned during an employee's tenure or at the time of hire.

SEI is an Equal Opportunity Employer and so much more…

After over 50 years in business, SEI remains a leading global provider of investment processing, investment management, and investment operations solutions. Reflecting our experience within financial services and financial technology our offices encompass an open floor plan and numerous art installations designed to encourage innovation and creativity in our workforce. We recognize that our people are our most valuable asset and that a healthy, happy, and motivated workforce is key to our continued growth. At SEI, we’re (literally) invested in your success. We offer our employees paid parental leave, back-up childcare arrangements, paid volunteer days, education assistance and access to thriving employee networks. 

SEI is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

AI Acceptable Use in the application and interview process:

SEI acknowledges the growing integration of artificial intelligence (AI) tools into individuals’ personal and professional lives.  If you intend to incorporate the use of any AI tools at any stage of the application and/or interview process, please ensure you have reviewed and adhere to our AI use guidelines.