Senior Manager, FinOps Data Applications and Operations
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Job Location:
Bethesda, MD - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
19 hours ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Job Overview
The Sr. Technical Manager FinOps is a senior technical specialist responsible for driving measurable cloud cost savings financial accountability and engineering led optimization across large scale data and analytics platforms. This role will focus heavily on FinOps optimization for Snowflake AWS EMR and broader AWS cloud data services (EC2 S3 Lambda Redshift Glue DynamoDB EKS)
The manager will architect and implement automation for tagging compliance budget guardrails workload efficiency and anomaly detection ensuring cost efficient design across modern data workloads. This role collaborates across Cloud Platform Data Engineering DevOps Security and Finance to deliver cost transparency (chargeback/showback) enforce governance using policy as code and reduce spend without compromising performance availability or security.
Grounded in FinOps principles and tooling including centralized dashboards cost observability and automated policy enforcement the Senior Manager will ensure that Snowflake EMR and AWS-based data pipelines are engineered with cost efficiency and scalability in mind. This role will shape the operating model for innovative optimization solutions across Marriotts multi cloud environment.
CANDIDATE PROFILE
Education and Experience
Required:
Undergraduate degree in Engineering or Computer Science or equivalent experience/certification.
7 years of experience in Information Technology including:
o5 years in cloud technologies with IaaS/PaaS/SaaS across AWS AliCloud or Azure.
o3 years of hands-on Snowflake cost optimization including warehouse sizing credit analysis query optimization and Resource Monitor usage.
o3 years of AWS EMR optimization experience including cluster right sizing Spark tuning Spot strategy management and EMR Serverless.
o3 years developing FinOps optimization strategies across AWS services (S3 EC2 Lambda Redshift Glue DynamoDB EKS).
o3 years of scripting/automation using Python Bash or similar languages.
Experience with FinOps / Cloud Cost Management tools (CloudHealth Cloudability AWS Cost Explorer Snowflake native cost tools).
Strong analytical skills with proven ability to drive cost savings at scale.
Experience managing multi million dollar cloud budgets across data engineering workloads.
Deep understanding of cloud pricing models optimization levers alternatives and financial governance.
Demonstrated ability to partner with technical teams to enforce cost efficient architecture.
Preferred:
2 years with infrastructure automation using Terraform Ansible CloudFormation or similar IaC tools.
Experience with container platforms (Docker OpenShift Kubernetes ECS GKE).
Experience engineering large-scale distributed data systems (Spark Presto Iceberg Snowflake).
Experience delivering solutions in a global fast paced enterprise.
Ability to quickly learn and apply emerging AWS and Snowflake capabilities (Iceberg Tables Serverless Compute EMR on EKS etc.).
Excellent problem-solving and cross-functional leadership skills.
Strong experience across the following platforms:
oOperating Systems: RHEL Oracle Linux Windows CentOS
oStorage: AWS S3 lifecycle replication backup/recovery best practices
oSecurity: Cloud security compliance data protection encryption vulnerability tooling
oDatabases: Snowflake PostgreSQL MySQL MongoDB DynamoDB Oracle
Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Understanding of ITCM/ITRM automation best practices.
CORE WORK ACTIVITIES
FinOps Engineering & Optimization
Analyze usage performance and cost patterns across Snowflake AWS EMR and AWS data pipelines.
Optimize costs across Snowflake warehouses queries materialized views clustering retention and compute scheduling.
Optimize AWS EMR via cluster lifecycle automation Spark tuning Spot strategy design autoscaling and EMR Serverless migration.
Engineer optimizations for AWS services (EC2/Autoscaling EKS cost governance S3 lifecycle Redshift tuning Glue job efficiency DynamoDB capacity Lambda usage).
Implement automated tools and pipelines for anomaly detection budget enforcement reservation planning and tagging compliance.
Build unified cost dashboards for Snowflake EMR and AWS consumption.
Collaborate with Finance to align data platform spend to budgets and forecast models.
Technical Leadership
Provide engineering leadership governance and architectural direction for cost efficient cloud solution delivery.
Serve as the technical point of contact for Snowflake and EMR optimization initiatives.
Lead environment assessments to identify inefficiencies and drive technical improvements.
Contribute to lifecycle strategies platform standards and cloud governance models.
Use capacity/performance data to influence future data platform design and usage patterns.
Present cost insights savings opportunities and technical recommendations to leadership teams.
Mentor engineers on AWS data engineering efficiency and Snowflake/EMR optimization best practices.
Lead project requirements gathering architecture design chargeback modeling and IaC development.
Collaborate with Enterprise Architecture to ensure cloud-native services meet cost and support guardrails.
Delivering Technology
Define and enhance operational and technical standards for cost efficient cloud data workloads.
Balance business needs with performance availability and cost constraints.
Work closely with Data Engineering Cloud Platforms and DevOps to resolve complex issues.
Provide oversight for provisioning managing and maintaining Snowflake EMR and AWS data ecosystems.
Ensure monitoring and alerting cover compute storage and cost anomalies across Snowflake and AWS workloads.
Develop internal processes tooling and training to support cost-efficient production operations.
Perform quantitative/qualitative analyses to ensure high availability and zero defect operations.
Lead updates upgrades and continuous improvement for AWS and Snowflake environments.
IT Governance
Adhere to all established IT governance security architectural and compliance standards.
Execute automated compliance checks (tagging budget guardrails data retention).
Maintain proper balance between operational risk and business needs.
Follow defined project management processes and contribute to improvements.
Service Provider Management
Coordinate with internal teams and cloud vendors to ensure high-quality execution.
Lead service provider oversight to ensure SLAs KPIs and optimization mandates are met.
Review operations reporting and analytics metrics to ensure continuous improvement.
At Marriott International we are dedicated to being an equal opportunity employer welcoming all and providing access to opportunity. We actively foster an environment where the unique backgrounds of our associates are valued and greatest strength lies in the rich blend of culture talent and experiences of our are committed to non-discrimination on any protected basis including disability veteran status or other basis protected by applicable law.
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Senior Manager
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