Architect - FinOps

The role

Lead the FinOps team by setting technical direction and building backend services for Zynga's games. Find cloud and vendor cost savings across the organization and work with engineering, finance and business teams on cost decisions.

What you will do

• Lead all technical aspects of the FinOps team's software development and data analysis, including mentoring software and cloud engineers
• Stay current on AWS and other vendor software changes to find new cost savings
• Propose and design FinOps tooling using data pipelines, APIs, cron jobs, Slack bots, UIs, SQL, NoSQL and Tableau
• Help Product Management prioritize work by organization impact, estimated cost reduction and level of effort
• Help Data Analysts design SQL tables and use Tableau for accurate data analysis
• Coordinate with team members across the enterprise on cost optimization and cost transparency
• Partner with engineering, finance and business teams to resolve ad hoc FinOps inquiries and drive cost decisions
• Serve as technical advisor to internal customers on cloud cost optimization, architecture decisions and best practices

Required qualifications

• B.S. in Computer Science, Math, Statistics, Engineering or other quantitative field, or equivalent experience
• Experience as a technical leader in an enterprise, collaborating with 50+ teams
• Experience collaborating with customers across many teams and levels within an enterprise
• Experience mentoring other engineers
• Experience leading projects from the ground up, breaking work into components and delegating tasks
• 8+ years of hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS)
• 8+ years of hands-on experience with software programming, preferably Python
• Hands-on experience with SQL tables and SQL queries
• Hands-on experience developing APIs, UIs and data pipelines
• Hands-on experience with infrastructure-as-code and continuous integration testing
• Strong collaborative approach

Nice to have

• Previous experience with FinOps practices and cost management analysis

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision and basic life insurance
• 14 paid holidays per calendar year
• Paid vacation of 15 to 25 days per year, or discretionary time off program
• Up to 10 paid sick days per calendar year
• Paid parental and compassionate leave
• Wellbeing programs for mental health and wellness support
• Family planning support through Maven
• Commuter benefits
• Reimbursement for fitness-related expenses
• 401(K) plan and Employee Stock Purchase Program

Before you apply

• This is an existing vacancy
• Artificial Intelligence is not used to screen candidates (Ontario only)
• Zynga does not conduct interviews or make offers over third-party messaging apps; recruiters contact candidates only from official company email domains

About the company

Zynga is a global interactive entertainment company and a label of Take-Two Interactive, founded in 2007 and headquartered in California. Its games, including FarmVille, Words With Friends and Toon Blast, have been downloaded over 6 billion times.