AI & Cloud FinOps Engineer

WTW is evolving the FinOps practice that keeps our AI and cloud spend visible,

accountable and efficient. This role will help drive the evolution from

traditional cloud FinOps to Tokenomics, and the automation of that practice.

You will build the controls, reporting, and automation that let our FinOps

practice run without manual effort across Azure and AI, and you will help stand

up our FinOps for AI capability from a standing start. Small core FinOps team,

global estate, and work that is visible to our most senior technology leaders.

The Role

We focus on 4 core areas: how we plan spend, how we monitor it, how we optimize

it, and how the practice itself evolves.

Plan: design cost in before it is spent

* Automate design-time cost estimates, so the cost of a workload or an AI

feature is understood before it is built.

* Support continuous forecasting by support the automation of the monthly

forecast and variance pack, including AI-drafted commentary, published to

stakeholders each month.

Monitor: make cost visible without manual effort

* Automate the ingestion, normalization and allocation of cloud and AI cost

data, aligned to FOCUS, so that reporting maintains itself instead of being

rebuilt each month.

* Instrument AI cost attribution at source; Team, product, feature and

environment on every call so that token and model consumption can be

attributed, shown back and charged back.

* Build the alert-to-closure workflow: multi-threshold budget and anomaly

alerts routed to a named owner, with response SLAs, escalation, and closure

evidence captured automatically.

* Enhance monitoring with automated metrics that lead to meaningful and

actionable insights.

Optimize: turn insights into action

* Automate insight-to-action routing so optimization recommendations,

anomalies, and trends reach the right owner, are tracked to resolution, and

do not quietly expire.

* Automate cost hygiene: detection of orphaned and idle resources triggering

lifecycle actions and build the tooling behind our rightsizing practice.

* Help shape the guardrails that stop AI spend running away: real-time

visibility, cost controls, step and budget caps on agentic workloads, and a

central model-routing layer that enforces model-tier policy, caching and

batching without teams having to change their code.

Evolve: grow the practice, especially for AI

* Build out our FinOps for AI practice: unit economics such as cost per prompt,

per outcome, per user and per agent run; model, seat and feature hygiene.

* Apply AI to the practice itself: anomaly explanation, tagging remediation,

variance commentary and optimization prioritization.

* Codify and automate best practices, so engineering, product and finance teams

can act without queuing behind the central team.

RESPONSIBILITIES

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QUALIFICATIONS

The Requirements

Essential

* Typically 5+ years in cloud cost management, cloud engineering, platform

engineering or a closely related discipline.

* Strong Microsoft Azure experience, including the cost management tooling.

Awareness of AI services such as Azure Foundry.

* Automation engineering capability: for example Python together with Azure

Logic Apps and Functions, or close equivalents, and a track record of

replacing recurring manual processes with reliable, monitored automation.

* Strong data and query skills with experience gathering and maintaining cost

data, ideally against FOCUS-aligned datasets.

* Understanding of AI cost drivers across different vendors (e.g. GitHub,

Anthropic, OpenAI): token consumption, model selection, inference versus

training, provisioned throughput, and usage-based pricing models.

* Working knowledge of the FinOps Framework in an enterprise setting, including

how cost allocation, showback and chargeback work in practice.

* Ability to translate cost data into something that lands with both engineers

and finance, including reporting in Power BI or similar.

* The communication skills to bring engineering, product and finance teams

along on a FinOps cultural transformation.

* A track record of identifying and delivering cost optimization.

Desirable

* FinOps Certified Practitioner, or working towards it.

* Experience with a commercial multicloud FinOps platform (e.g. Cloudability or

CloudHealth).

* Exposure to AI guardrails and governance — rate limiting, budget controls,

policy-as-code.

* Integration experience with alerting and workflow tooling such as Microsoft

Teams and ServiceNow.

* Experience beyond Azure (AWS, OCI or GCP) and with SaaS cost management.

What success looks like

In your first 12-18 months, we would expect to see:

* Tagging compliance held above 95%, sustained by automation rather than manual

clean-up.

* Optimization recommendations actioned and measured, with nothing expiring

unseen.

* Budget and anomaly alerts closed through the automated workflow, each with a

complete audit trail.

* A material reduction in the manual effort behind monthly reporting and

forecasting.

* A working AI unit-economics view that product teams actually use to make

build decisions.

Note: Employment-based non-immigrant visa sponsorship and/or assistance is not

offered for this specific job opportunity.

Compensation

and Benefits

Base salary range and benefits information for this position are being included

in accordance with requirements of various state/local pay transparency

legislation. Please note that salaries may vary for different individuals in the

same role based on several factors, including but not limited to location of the

role, individual competencies, education/professional certifications,

qualifications/experience, performance in the role and potential for revenue

generation (Producer roles only).

Compensation

The base salary compensation range being offered for this role is

$130,000.00-$140,000.00 USD annually. This role is also eligible for an annual

short-term incentive bonus.

Company Benefits

WTW provides a competitive benefit package which includes the following

(eligibility requirements apply):

* Health and Welfare

Benefits

Mental health/emotional wellbeing (including

Employee Assistance Program), medical (including prescription drug coverage

and fertility benefits), dental, vision, Health Savings Account, Commuter

Accounts, Health Care and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts,

company-paid life insurance, supplemental life insurance, AD&D, group

accident, group critical illness, group legal, identify theft protection,

wellbeing program, adoption assistance, surrogacy assistance, auto/home

insurance, pet insurance and other work/life resources

* Leave

Benefits

Paid holidays, annual paid time off (includes state/local

paid leave where required), company-paid disability (short-term and long-term

disability), other leaves (e.g., bereavement, FMLA, ADA, jury duty, military

leave, and Parental and Adoption Leave), Paid Time Off

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* Retirement

Benefits

Qualified contributory pension plan (if eligible) and

401(k) plan with annual nonelective company contribution. Non-qualified

retirement plans available to senior level colleagues who satisfy the plans’

eligibility requirements.

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and Los Angeles County Fair

Chance Ordinance for Employers, we will consider for employment qualified

applicants with arrest and conviction records.

This position will remain posted for a minimum of three business days from the

date posted or until sufficient/appropriate candidate slate has been identified.