Job Title: Lead Specialist Cloud FinOps

Work Location: Bangalore, India (Hybrid),

Working Shift: USA (6:30 PM IST to 3:30AM IST)

As a Senior Cloud FinOps Engineer for Pearson, you will join Pearson's Cloud FinOps team, working as part of a global Centre of Excellence focused on cloud cost transparency and optimisation across a multi-cloud estate. You will be responsible for collecting and analyzing data to provide Cloud financial insights critical to our success as a business.

Required Responsibilities include, but not limited to:

- Produce reports for multi-cloud platforms that can be shared with and actioned by Management and Senior Leaders.
- Work effectively with cross-functional teams globally, assimilating requirements, driving results in the form of data insights and building strategic partnerships.
- Support the FinOps team with setting goals/KPIs, retrieving data and modeling
- Partner with our Cloud Governance team to map data process flows, allowing FinOps to gather a single source of data.
- Analyze and forecast cloud hosting costs.
- Provide cost optimization recommendations.
- Create and maintain month-end and quarter-end reports.
- Use Agile methodology for planning and execution.
- Use tools and technology to make data driven decisions.
- Collecting requirements for targeted automation projects; exploring potential solutions based on fit, up-skilling need, team skillsets, cost, and current and long-term strategies

Required Skills :

- Python Data Analytics Skills
- PowerBI Development
- Cloud platform experience (Azure, AWS or GCP)
- Cloud billing and cost management tools
- FinOps commitment plan strategies such as enterprise-wide discount programs and commitment plans (Reserved Instances, Savings Plans, Spot, Sustained Use/Committed Use Discounts)
- Agentic AI Experience
- Advanced Excel




- Financial principles and business analytics.
- Cross-functional and global team collaboration
- Self-starter who can also work independently and with a team to deliver superior customer service- Ability to analyze and produce meaningful insights from large datasets
- Strong analytical background with an aptitude for understanding technology
- Nice to have skills
- Experience with 3rd party cloud cost optimization tools like Cloudability
- Understanding of database and big data management capabilities and constraints like RDBMS, NoSQL, Datalake, etc.
- Experience managing or developing automation with object-oriented programming languages like Java or Python and understanding of appropriate use
- Experience with the AWS Cloud platform and leveraging appropriate AWS services (e.g. S3, Lambda) as part of development of automated solutions.
- Experience leveraging REST API for extracting and/or posting data
- Understanding of building and deploying Agentic solutions
- Azure, GCP or AWS Certifications

Qualifications

Education (or equivalent work experience)

- Undergraduate or master's degree in computer science, management information systems, data analytics or similar

+7 years of experience in IT (Business Analytics, Project Management or Technology Finance)

Growth Opportunities exist for cross-training on AWS, Azure, and GCP platforms, and support for FinOps Foundation certification.

Who we are : At Pearson, our purpose is simple: to help people realize the life they imagine through learning. We believe that every learning prospect is a chance for a personal breakthrough. We are the world's lifelong learning company. For us, learning isn't just what we do. It's who we are. To learn more: We are Pearson.

Job :Engineering

Job Family :TECHNOLOGY

Organization :OCTO

Schedule :FULL_TIME

Workplace Type :Hybrid

Req ID :24586

📌 Lead Specialist Cloud Finops (Bengaluru)
🏢 Pearson
📍 Bengaluru