## About the Role

Cerence AI is hiring a FinOps Developer to improve visibility, accountability, and optimization of cloud infrastructure spend across a global, Azure-first environment. The role focuses on building and maintaining tools, data pipelines, dashboards, and automation that support financial transparency and operational excellence.

In this position, you will help modernize reporting and analytics capabilities, strengthen cost allocation practices, and support budgeting, variance analysis, anomaly detection, and executive reporting. You will work with cross-functional teams to improve cloud financial governance and ensure continuity of FinOps tooling and reporting.

The role also includes using AI to help accelerate and automate operational work, monitoring, and cross-functional tasks. This position is intended to have a measurable impact on cost transparency, accountability, and cloud cost efficiency.

## Key Responsibilities

– Manage and improve cloud cost reporting across Azure, AWS, and GCP.
– Build, maintain, and evolve tooling used for budgeting, variance analysis, anomaly detection, and executive reporting.
– Maintain and enhance data pipelines, reporting models, dashboards, and automation supporting FinOps operations.
– Improve cost allocation practices, including labeling, tagging, showback, and chargeback.
– Support cost optimization initiatives and efficiency improvements.
– Work with SQL, Power BI, Microsoft Fabric, and related reporting and analytics tools.
– Partner with cross-functional teams to strengthen cloud financial accountability and governance.
– Document operational, development, deployment, and collaboration processes.
– Use AI to help automate tasks, operational resolution, monitoring, and cross-functional work.
– Ensure continuity of FinOps tooling, reports, and related capabilities.

## Required Skills

– 2+ years of experience in FinOps, cloud engineering, cloud operations, or a related technical discipline.
– Strong knowledge of cloud cost management using native Azure, AWS, and GCP services.
– Experience with third-party cost management tools such as CloudZero, Vantage, or CloudHealth.
– Experience with SQL, data analysis, reporting platforms, and dashboard development.
– Power BI experience is preferred for reporting and dashboard work.
– Experience supporting financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, or cost optimization initiatives.
– Strong communication skills and the ability to translate verbal and written input into requirements and deliverables.
– Experience with data pipelines on Microsoft Fabric, Power BI, Kubecost, Python, or similar data and cloud financial management frameworks.
– Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related engineering discipline.
– Equivalent practical experience developing edge and embedded applications will also be considered.

## Cloud Platforms & Technologies

### Cloud Providers
– Azure
– AWS
– GCP

### FinOps Platforms
– CloudZero
– Vantage
– CloudHealth
– Kubecost

### Programming Languages
– Python
– SQL

### Data & Analytics
– Microsoft Fabric
– Power BI

## FinOps Responsibilities

– Improve cloud cost visibility and reporting across multiple cloud environments.
– Support budgeting, variance analysis, anomaly detection, and executive-level reporting.
– Enhance cost allocation through labeling, tagging, showback, and chargeback processes.
– Support cost optimization and efficiency efforts.
– Strengthen cloud financial accountability and governance.
– Maintain and improve reporting, analytics, and automation used in FinOps operations.

## Benefits

– Salary range of USD $86,450 to $129,675
– Annual bonus opportunity
– Medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance
– Paid time off
– Paid holidays
– Company 401(k) contribution
– Equity awards for certain positions and levels
– Remote and/or hybrid work available depending on the position

## Useful Links

– Company Website: https://www.cerence.ai/
– LinkedIn Job Posting: https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/4445519955

## Why You Might Be Interested

This role offers the chance to shape FinOps capability within a global, Azure-first environment while working across Azure, AWS, and GCP. It combines cloud financial management, analytics, automation, and reporting in a position with broad visibility across the business. The opportunity may appeal to candidates who want to improve cost transparency, strengthen governance, and build scalable FinOps processes. It also includes the chance to work with AI-enabled automation and contribute to modernizing the tools and pipelines that support the function.