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The PositionJob description
The Senior FinOps Engineer is a strategic leader and innovator who champions the adoption of cloud financial management and AI-driven cost optimization trends to meet digital product needs. In this role, you will evaluate and integrate emerging FinOps tools and methodologies to optimize the software delivery process and enhance the digital product lifecycle.
As we build our AI Factory, you will be pivotal in defining and applying models that ensure the rationalization of costs without reducing innovation. You will act as a technical mentor to junior, mid-level, and senior engineers, significantly shaping the organization's technical direction and financial sustainability.
Description of the area
Hosting and Infrastructure (HI) provides mission critical on-premise infrastructure, cloud hosting, connectivity, and technology products that enable all functions at every Roche site to develop / innovate, connect and deliver compliant digital products across the Roche Enterprise.
The HI Business Operations Team is the strategic engine driving operational excellence and financial integrity across HI’s technical ecosystem. This team ensures that infrastructure is not just powerful, but also efficient, transparent, and aligned with the area’s strategic objectives.
The team's mission is to bridge the gap between technical execution and business value, with a focus on operational excellence and financial optimization, transforming raw infrastructure data into actionable business intelligence while streamlining the workflows that keep the departments moving forward.
Job Responsibilities
Scope / Content Leadership: Evaluates and integrates new FinOps tools and methodologies (e.g., Cloudability, Apptio) to enhance the digital product lifecycle and ensure cost-effective utilization of public cloud services.
AI FinOps Innovation: Leads the definition and implementation of financial models specifically for the AI Factory, ensuring high-performance AI workloads are balanced with rigorous cost rationalization and innovation preservation.
Accountability / Problem Solving: Drives medium to large (M/L) initiatives across products to identify gaps in Cloud Financial Models and brings in external best practices to improve enterprise-wide FinOps practices.
Financial Governance: Actively manages governance activities including monthly accruals, forecasting future consumption, and the implementation of Cloud saving plans across AWS, Azure, and GCP.
Stakeholder Management: Excels in negotiations and partnerships with vendors and internal customers to achieve mutual benefits and provide clear direction for long-term financial objectives.
Impact/Strategy: Provides global-level support for technological initiatives, giving speeches and actively sharing knowledge at international events and driving internal Centers of Excellence (CoEs).
Technical Excellence: Designs and enforces high standards for cloud financial reporting systems and automated cost monitoring scripts for large-scale production environments.
Consultancy / Mentoring: Acts as a highly respected FinOps consultant to stakeholders with different backgrounds like engineers, IT managers or finance partners. Mentors FinOps team colleagues to excel on the definition and implementation of FinOps practices.
Qualifications
Education / Experience
Extensive Experience: Managing large workloads and products across traditional and cloud application architectures (Serverless, Kubernetes, AI/ML Infrastructure).
Financial Proficiency: Proven track record in cloud finance control, including experience with IT infrastructure, budgeting, and cost-efficiency strategies.
Leadership: Demonstrated experience leading strategic initiatives and coaching engineers and finance colleagues in a growth-enabling way.
Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Finance, or equivalent work experience.
Technical Skills
Cloud Ecosystems: Advanced knowledge of multiple cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and their respective pricing models.
Programming & Data: Advanced proficiency in at least one programming language (Python, Go, or JavaScript) and experience developing APIs/UIs for financial automation.
Analysis Tools: Expert-level knowledge of Cloud Cost Analysis tools (e.g., Cloudability) and ServiceNow CMDB for data quality and financial control.
Infrastructure as Code: expertise in Terraform, CDK, or CloudFormation to automate financial governance and monitoring.
Additional Qualifications
Thought Leadership: Capable of representing the organization at global events regarding FinOps and AI cost management.
Communication: Strong oral and written communication skills in English; additional languages (Spanish, German) are a plus.
Certification: One or more industry certifications in public cloud or FinOps (e.g., FinOps Certified Practitioner) is highly desired.
Who we are
A healthier future drives us to innovate. Together, more than 100’000 employees across the globe are dedicated to advance science, ensuring everyone has access to healthcare today and for generations to come. Our efforts result in more than 26 million people treated with our medicines and over 30 billion tests conducted using our Diagnostics products. We empower each other to explore new possibilities, foster creativity, and keep our ambitions high, so we can deliver life-changing healthcare solutions that make a global impact.
Let’s build a healthier future, together.
Roche is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
Skills Required
- Extensive experience managing large workloads and products across traditional and cloud application architectures, including serverless, Kubernetes, and AI/ML infrastructure
- Experience with cloud finance control, IT infrastructure, budgeting, and cost-efficiency strategies
- Experience leading strategic initiatives and coaching engineers and finance colleagues
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Finance, or equivalent work experience
- Advanced knowledge of AWS, Azure, and GCP, including their pricing models
- Advanced proficiency in at least one of Python, Go, or JavaScript
- Experience developing APIs or user interfaces for financial automation
- Expert knowledge of cloud cost analysis tools such as Cloudability
- Experience with ServiceNow CMDB for data quality and financial control
- Expertise in Terraform, CDK, or CloudFormation
- Strong oral and written communication skills in English
- Ability to represent the organization at global FinOps and AI cost-management events
- Additional Spanish or German language skills
- Industry certification in public cloud or FinOps, such as FinOps Certified Practitioner
Roche Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Roche and has not been reviewed or approved by Roche.
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Retirement Support — U.S. materials describe a 401(k) with both matching and an additional company contribution, supported by formal plan documents and true‑up features. This structure is positioned as a standout element of the total package, particularly at Genentech.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time‑off provisions include substantial vacation, a year‑end shutdown, and a paid six‑week sabbatical after six years. These elements indicate a recharge‑oriented approach within the U.S. offering.
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Healthcare Strength — Company materials emphasize comprehensive medical, dental, vision, and mental‑health resources alongside well‑being programs. Benefits pages consistently highlight breadth across core health coverage elements.
Roche Insights
What We Do
Roche is a global pioneer in pharmaceuticals and diagnostics focused on advancing science to improve people’s lives. The combined strengths of pharmaceuticals and diagnostics under one roof have made Roche the leader in personalised healthcare – a strategy that aims to fit the right treatment to each patient in the best way possible. Roche is the world’s largest biotech company, with truly differentiated medicines in oncology, immunology, infectious diseases, ophthalmology and diseases of the central nervous system. Roche is also the world leader in in vitro diagnostics and tissue-based cancer diagnostics, and a frontrunner in diabetes management. Founded in 1896, Roche continues to search for better ways to prevent, diagnose and treat diseases and make a sustainable contribution to society. The company also aims to improve patient access to medical innovations by working with all relevant stakeholders. Thirty medicines developed by Roche are included in the World Health Organization Model Lists of Essential Medicines, among them life-saving antibiotics, antimalarials and cancer medicines. Roche has been recognised as the Group Leader in sustainability within the Pharmaceuticals, Biotechnology & Life Sciences Industry ten years in a row by the Dow Jones Sustainability Indices (DJSI).
