Lead Cloud Solution Architect- FinOps

• 8-10+ years in cloud consulting or enterprise cloud roles, with at least 3 years focused specifically on FinOps or cloud cost management
• Demonstrated hands on technical depth in one or more major cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP), covering architecture, infrastructure as code, and cost and billing constructs, not just dashboards
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience
• FinOps Certified Professional required; FinOps Certified Practitioner or equivalent accepted as an interim credential
• Prior consulting experience, meaning client facing delivery and not internal only cost management
• Proven track record advising and presenting to executive level stakeholders
• Comfortable owning delivery from discovery through solution design, implementation, and realization reporting
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Strongly Desired Skills

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional, Azure Solutions Architect Expert, or GCP Professional Cloud Architect

• FinOps tooling implementation: Cloudability, CloudHealth, native AWS Cost Explorer, Azure Cost Management, GCP Billing
• Cloud cost allocation models: tagging strategy, showback and chargeback design, unit economics
• Reserved capacity and commitment based discount strategy across at least one hyperscaler
• Infrastructure as code and architecture refactoring to translate cost findings into technical remediation
• Cloud governance and landing zone design as it relates to cost control
• Working awareness of AI infrastructure cost management: GPU utilization, inference cost optimization, foundation model consumption economics

• Familiarity with FinOps practices across more than one hyperscaler
• Experience advising clients on multi cloud cost strategy or workload placement decisions
• Certifications on a secondary cloud platform are a plus

• At least two active FinOps engagements are running under this role's direct delivery ownership with no quality gaps
• WWT's FinOps service offerings are sharper, more repeatable, and faster to scope, measurably reducing presales cycle time
• The frameworks, playbooks, and standards this role has built have made WWT's FinOps delivery more scalable, enabling the team to take on greater volume without sacrificing quality
• Client satisfaction scores on FinOps engagements reflect measurable improvement in delivery consistency and outcome achievement

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Certain states and localities require employers to post a reasonable estimate of salary range. A reasonable estimate of the current base pay range for this position is $140,000 to $175,000 annually. Actual salary will be based on a variety of factors, including shift, location, experience, skill set, performance, licensure and certification, and business needs. The range for this position in other geographic locations may differ. Certain positions may also be eligible for variable incentive compensation, such as bonuses or commissions, that is not included in the base pay. 

The well-being of WWT employees is essential. So, when it comes to our benefits package, WWT has one of the best. We offer the following benefits to all full-time employees:

• Health and Wellbeing: Health, Dental, and Vision Care, Onsite Health Centers, Employee Assistance Program, Wellness program
• Financial Benefits: Competitive pay, Profit Sharing, 401k Plan with Company Matching, Life and Disability Insurance, Tuition Reimbursement
• Paid Time Off: PTO and Sick Leave (starting at 20 days per year) & Holidays (10 per year), Parental Leave, Military Leave, Bereavement
• Additional Perks: Nursing Mothers Benefits, Voluntary Legal, Pet Insurance, Employee Discount Program

We strive to create an environment where all employees are empowered to succeed based on their skills, performance, and dedication. Our goal is to cultivate a culture of belonging that encourages innovation, collaboration, and respect for all team members, ensuring that WWT remains a great place to work for All!

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Why WWT?

At World Wide Technology, we work together to make a new world happen. Our important work benefits our clients and partners as much as it does our people and communities across the globe. WWT is dedicated to achieving its mission of creating a profitable growth company that is also a Great Place to Work for All. We achieve this through our world-class culture, generous benefits and by delivering cutting-edge technology solutions for our clients.

Founded in 1990, WWT is a global technology solutions provider leading the AI and Digital Revolution. WWT combines the power of strategy, execution and partnership to accelerate digital transformational outcomes for organizations around the globe. Through its Advanced Technology Center, a collaborative ecosystem of the world's most advanced hardware and software solutions, WWT helps clients and partners conceptualize, test and validate innovative technology solutions for the best business outcomes and then deploys them at scale through its global warehousing, distribution and integration capabilities.

With over 15,000 employees across WWT and Softchoice and more than 60 locations around the world, WWT's culture, built on a set of core values and established leadership philosophies, has been recognized 15 years in a row by Fortune and Great Place to Work® for its unique blend of determination, innovation and creating a great place to work for all.

Want to work with highly motivated individuals on high-performance teams? Join WWT today!

What is the Solutions Consulting & Engineering (SC&E) Team and why join?

Solutions Consulting & Engineering is an organization that is Customer Focused and Solutions Led. We deliver end-to-end and emerging solutions to drive customer satisfaction, increase profitability and growth. Our success is enabled by our world-class management consulting, delivery excellence and engineering brilliance. Our goal is to bring together business acumen with full-stack technical know-how to develop innovative solutions for our clients' most complex challenges.

Position Overview

As a Cloud Solution Architect - FinOps, you are an individual contributor and recognized FinOps and cloud cost expert who delivers cloud financial management outcomes for enterprise clients and supports how WWT builds and sells them.

This is both a strategic and a hands-on delivery role. You deliver FinOps engagements directly, own delivery outcomes on live client work, and assist building the frameworks, tooling patterns, and delivery playbooks that let WWT scale a growing FinOps and FinOps for AI pipeline. You are equally comfortable running a cost optimization workshop with a client executive and getting into the console to fix the architecture driving the spend.

You understand that FinOps outcomes are only as strong as the technical foundation beneath them. You bring real world experience architecting and operating workloads on at least one major cloud platform, and you know how to translate cost findings into architectural remediation, not just a report. You have guided clients through the organizational and technical work of building a durable cost governance capability, and you are now extending that discipline into how enterprises manage the economics of AI infrastructure.

Delivery Execution

• Own delivery of FinOps engagements from discovery through realization, including maturity assessment, tooling implementation (Cloudability, CloudHealth, native cost tools), cost allocation models, and optimization realization
• Provide hands on cloud architecture expertise on at least one hyperscaler (AWS, Azure, or GCP) to translate cost findings into technical remediation, including rightsizing, reserved capacity strategy, architecture refactoring, and workload placement
• Regularly work across multiple concurrent client engagements, providing FinOps quality assurance on FinOps adjacent work
• Have a growing awareness of emerging FinOps for AI practices, including cost governance for GPU consumption, model inference spend, and AI infrastructure economics, to support engagements as they arise

Solution Development

• Partner with Solution Owner to define and continuously improve WWT's FinOps delivery process, including reference architectures, delivery playbooks, assessment frameworks, and reusable delivery assets
• Partner with Solution Owner to develop and maintain SOW templates, LOE models, and scope frameworks that enable delivery teams to structure and price FinOps engagements consistently
• Partner with Solution Owner to align FinOps offerings to client demand signals, competitive positioning, and cloud partner co investment opportunities
• Support Solution Owner in building and maturing WWT's standalone cloud cost optimization offering, contributing methodology and delivery IP the practice can reuse

Pre Sales SME Support

• Support creation and validation of FinOps domain SOWs, LOEs, and technical proposals; identify scope gaps, risk patterns, and pricing inconsistencies before they reach the client
• Support RFP and RFI responses as the FinOps subject matter expert, providing solution narratives and differentiators grounded in WWT's actual delivery experience
• Support cloud provider field teams and WWT account executives in positioning FinOps offerings and shaping pursuit strategies for strategic accounts