About Us
LSEG (London Stock Exchange Group) is a diversified global financial markets infrastructure and data business dedicated to delivering open‑access services that support innovation, risk management and job creation worldwide.
Role Description
Azure Senior FinOps Engineer – combines financial operations (FinOps) expertise with deep technical knowledge of Microsoft Azure to manage, optimise and govern cloud spending effectively.
Key Responsibilities
- Deep understanding of Azure Cloud Services and architectures, pricing models, and billing structures to perform deep dives and complex analysis of cost trends, anomalies, identify areas of improvement and support decision making with data‑driven insights.
- Ensure that appropriate Azure services are used in each environment to avoid overspending.
- Establish and track KPIs for Azure Cloud financial performance.
- Collaborate with platform teams to ensure that cost‑financial management tooling is configured accurately across all environments.
- Construct dashboards to analyse costs, trends and anomalies to perform root‑cause analysis.
- Automate configuration and management of cloud financial management tooling via APIs.
- Configure pipelines that run daily, nightly or weekly for automatic updates of these configurations and report generation.
- Ensure that tagging standards are respected and new guidelines are implemented.
- Demonstrate eagerness to learn latest industry trends and translate how these services or technologies can improve cost/performance for stakeholders.
- Collaborate with application teams to understand their approaches and designs to optimise performance and costs.
- Keep up to date with industry trends so that business collaborators and customers can be advised on how to use the latest services to improve cost/performance ratios.
- Collaborate with other team members to break down sophisticated requests using diagramming tools and breakout sessions.
- Understand the needs of internal customers – finance, procurement and business application teams – and propose solutions to their challenges.
Minimum Requirements
- At least 3‑5 years working experience with Azure Cloud Services and performing optimisations via rightsizing/modernisation.
- Experience evaluating existing infrastructure and creating processes for cost improvement without reducing performance.
- Experience working with REST APIs and crafting automation based on REST APIs.
- Experience with object‑oriented programming in at least one language, Python preferred.
- At least 5+ years experience in a large‑scale organisation in a similar role.
- Experience with Bash scripting or PowerShell scripting.
- Excellent debugging skills and a proactive attitude when performing deep‑dive analysis.
- Positive and proactive attitude, adaptable to changes and new challenges.
- Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into PoCs or new features presented as demos to collaborators, partners and customers.
- Presentation skills required.
- Fluent English verbal and written communication skills required.
Nice to Have
- Familiarity with the FinOps Foundation framework and understanding of maturity stages.
- Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or equivalent.
- Experience with RBAC management and least‑privileged access.
- Experience with a public‑cloud financial cost‑management product and knowledge of “run” maturity level.
- Understanding of common financial terms and key drivers used by Technology, Finance, Procurement, Accounts Payable and Receivable teams.
Benefits
LSEG offers a range of tailored benefits and support, including healthcare, retirement planning, paid volunteering days and wellbeing initiatives.
Equal Opportunities
LSEG is an equal opportunities employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, veteran status, pregnancy or disability or any other basis protected under applicable law. We can reasonably accommodate applicants’ and employees’ religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs.
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