## About the Role

ASOS is hiring an Engineering Lead to own the Technology Cost Management capability within Digital Foundation, as part of the FinOps Product Group. This role is responsible for the direction, prioritisation, and overall success of the capability, with a focus on building a single trusted view of technology spend.

The remit spans cloud, software, and asset costs, bringing together data, insight, and optimisation into products and services that improve financial accountability without slowing delivery. The role sits at the intersection of engineering, finance, and procurement, and is designed to turn cost insight into stronger governance, policy, and decision support.

The primary objective is to make technology investment transparent, well governed, and optimised for value. The role will work closely with Engineering, Finance, Procurement, and senior stakeholders across Digital Foundation to align outputs to planning, budgeting, renewal, and investment cycles.

## Key Responsibilities

### Leadership & Strategy
– Define the vision, priorities, and roadmap for Technology Cost Management.
– Own prioritisation and trade-offs across competing demands and limited capacity.
– Build and lead a multidisciplinary team covering data, analytics, and commercial insight.
– Maintain a single integrated backlog across the full capability.
– Ensure the function operates as one cohesive team rather than separate pillars.

### Product & Capability Ownership
– Own delivery across cost intelligence, cloud economics, software/SaaS/asset economics, and governance.
– Ensure outputs are trusted, consistent, and straightforward to use.
– Balance investment across data foundations, optimisation, and decision support.

### Cost Insight, Optimisation & Control
– Establish a clear and consistent cost model and allocation approach.
– Drive a pipeline of optimisation opportunities across cloud, software, and asset domains.
– Provide visibility into non-cloud spend, renewals, and commercial exposure.
– Embed forecasting, cost controls, and performance tracking.

### Governance & Decision Support
– Define and implement cost governance, policies, and guardrails.
– Turn analysis into business cases and decision-ready outputs.
– Support leadership with insight for investment, renewal, and optimisation decisions.
– Track and make value delivery visible.

### Cross-Functional Collaboration
– Partner with Engineering, Finance, Procurement, and wider Digital Foundation teams.
– Represent Technology Cost Management to senior stakeholders.
– Influence through data and insight rather than mandate.
– Align outputs with planning, budgeting, and decision-making cycles.

## Required Skills
– Experience as an engineering or platform leader.
– Comfort working across technical, financial, and procurement domains.
– A focus on outcomes and decision enablement.
– Ability to influence senior stakeholders through clarity and insight.
– Comfort operating beyond a single specialism.

## Preferred Skills
– Experience leading engineering, platform, or cost/FinOps teams.
– Experience across multiple cost domains.
– Strong understanding of cloud economics and optimisation.
– Experience with cost data, reporting, or commercial analysis.
– Ability to turn complex data into actionable insight.
– Collaborative leadership style.

## Cloud Platforms & Technologies

### Cloud Providers
– Cloud

### Software, SaaS, and Assets
– Software
– SaaS
– Assets

### Data & Analytics
– Data
– Analytics

## FinOps Responsibilities
– Create a single trusted view of technology spend and ownership.
– Establish cost allocation approaches across cloud, software, and assets.
– Build a pipeline of optimisation opportunities.
– Provide visibility into spend, renewals, and commercial exposure.
– Embed forecasting, cost controls, and performance tracking.
– Define cost governance, policies, and guardrails.
– Produce decision-ready analysis and business cases.
– Track and communicate value delivered.

## Benefits
– Employee discount.
– Employee sample sales.
– 25 days’ paid annual leave plus an extra celebration day.
– Discretionary bonus scheme.
– Private medical care scheme.
– Flexible benefits allowance, with the option to take it as extra cash or use it toward other benefits.
– Personalised learning and in-the-moment development experiences.

## Why You Might Be Interested

This role offers broad ownership across technology cost management, with responsibility for cloud, software, and asset spend. It combines strategy, governance, optimisation, and decision support in a single leadership position. You will work across engineering, finance, and procurement, and help shape how technology spend is understood and acted on. The impact is measurable: clearer allocation, stronger controls, and better investment decisions.