Qualifications
8-10+ years in cloud consulting or enterprise cloud roles, with at least 3 years focused specifically on FinOps or cloud cost management
Demonstrated hands on technical depth in one or more major cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP), covering architecture, infrastructure as code, and cost and billing constructs, not just dashboards
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience
FinOps Certified Professional required; FinOps Certified Practitioner or equivalent accepted as an interim credential
Prior consulting experience, meaning client facing delivery and not internal only cost management
Proven track record advising and presenting to executive level stakeholders
Comfortable owning delivery from discovery through solution design, implementation, and realization reporting
Strongly Desired Skills
AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional, Azure Solutions Architect Expert, or GCP Professional Cloud Architect
Technical Depth
FinOps tooling implementation: Cloudability, CloudHealth, native AWS Cost Explorer, Azure Cost Management, GCP Billing
Cloud cost allocation models: tagging strategy, showback and chargeback design, unit economics
Reserved capacity and commitment based discount strategy across at least one hyperscaler
Infrastructure as code and architecture refactoring to translate cost findings into technical remediation
Cloud governance and landing zone design as it relates to cost control
Working awareness of AI infrastructure cost management: GPU utilization, inference cost optimization, foundation model consumption economics
Multi Cloud Exposure
Familiarity with FinOps practices across more than one hyperscaler
Experience advising clients on multi cloud cost strategy or workload placement decisions
Certifications on a secondary cloud platform are a plus
What Success Looks Like in Year One
At least two active FinOps engagements are running under this role's direct delivery ownership with no quality gaps
WWT's FinOps service offerings are sharper, more repeatable, and faster to scope, measurably reducing presales cycle time
The frameworks, playbooks, and standards this role has built have made WWT's FinOps delivery more scalable, enabling the team to take on greater volume without sacrificing quality
Client satisfaction scores on FinOps engagements reflect measurable improvement in delivery consistency and outcome achievement
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Certain states and localities require employers to post a reasonable estimate of salary range. A reasonable estimate of the current base pay range for this position is $140,000 to $175,000 annually. Actual salary will be based on a variety of factors, including shift, location, experience, skill set, performance, licensure and certification, and business needs.
The range for this position in other geographic locations may differ. Certain positions may also be eligible for variable incentive compensation, such as bonuses or commissions, that is not included in the base pay.
The well-being of WWT employees is essential. When it comes to our benefits package, WWT has one of the best. We offer the following benefits to all full-time employees:
Health and Wellbeing: Health (Medical & Prescription), Dental, and Vision Care, Onsite Health Centers (MO & IL), Employee Assistance Program, Wellness program
Financial Benefits: Competitive Pay, Profit Sharing, 401k Plan with Company Matching, Life and Disability Insurance, Flexible Spending Accounts, Tuition Reimbursement
Paid Time Off: PTO & Holidays, Parental Leave, Medical Leave, Military Leave, Bereavement, Day of Caring
Additional Perks: Family Planning Benefits, Nursing Mothers Benefits, Voluntary Legal, Voluntary Supplemental Accident/Illness/Hospital, Voluntary ID Theft, Pet Insurance, Employee Discount Program
Note: This is not an all-encompassing list and should not be used as a complete description of the plan’s benefits. For more information, see our US benefits website at wwt.com/us-benefits.
We strive to create an environment where all employees are empowered to succeed based on their skills, performance, and dedication. Our goal is to cultivate a culture of belonging that encourages innovation, collaboration, and respect for all team members, ensuring that WWT remains a great place to work for all!
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Why WWT?
World Wide Technology (WWT) strives to make a new world happen. WWT's work benefits clients and partners as much as it does its people and community across the globe.
Founded in 1990, WWT brings together strategy, deep technical expertise and world-class partnerships to help public and private sector organizations design, build and scale intelligent AI, digital, cybersecurity, cloud and infrastructure solutions. Through its Advanced Technology Center (ATC)—a collaborative ecosystem featuring state-of-the-art hardware and software—WWT enables clients and partners to conceptualize, test and validate innovative technology and then deploy solutions at scale using its global integration and distributions capabilities.
With more than 14,000 team members and over 60 locations globally, WWT's culture—grounded in core values and leadership philosophies—has been recognized by Fortune® and Great Place to Work for its commitment to innovation, trust and creating a great place to work for all. WWT provides products and services to large enterprise, global service provider and public sector clients in up to 130 countries across six continents. Softchoice, a World Wide Technology company, supports commercial and SMB markets in the U.S. and Canada.
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Solutions Consulting & Engineering is an organization that is Customer Focused and Solutions Led. We deliver end-to-end and emerging solutions to drive customer satisfaction, increase profitability and growth. Our success is enabled by our world-class management consulting, delivery excellence and engineering brilliance. Our goal is to bring together business acumen with full-stack technical know-how to develop innovative solutions for our clients' most complex challenges.
Position Overview
As a Cloud Solution Architect - FinOps, you are an individual contributor and recognized FinOps and cloud cost expert who delivers cloud financial management outcomes for enterprise clients and supports how WWT builds and sells them.
This is both a strategic and a hands-on delivery role. You deliver FinOps engagements directly, own delivery outcomes on live client work, and assist building the frameworks, tooling patterns, and delivery playbooks that let WWT scale a growing FinOps and FinOps for AI pipeline. You are equally comfortable running a cost optimization workshop with a client executive and getting into the console to fix the architecture driving the spend.
You understand that FinOps outcomes are only as strong as the technical foundation beneath them. You bring real world experience architecting and operating workloads on at least one major cloud platform, and you know how to translate cost findings into architectural remediation, not just a report. You have guided clients through the organizational and technical work of building a durable cost governance capability, and you are now extending that discipline into how enterprises manage the economics of AI infrastructure.
Key Responsibilities
Delivery Execution
Own delivery of FinOps engagements from discovery through realization, including maturity assessment, tooling implementation (Cloudability, CloudHealth, native cost tools), cost allocation models, and optimization realization
Provide hands on cloud architecture expertise on at least one hyperscaler (AWS, Azure, or GCP) to translate cost findings into technical remediation, including rightsizing, reserved capacity strategy, architecture refactoring, and workload placement
Regularly work across multiple concurrent client engagements, providing FinOps quality assurance on FinOps adjacent work
Have a growing awareness of emerging FinOps for AI practices, including cost governance for GPU consumption, model inference spend, and AI infrastructure economics, to support engagements as they arise
Solution Development
Partner with Solution Owner to define and continuously improve WWT's FinOps delivery process, including reference architectures, delivery playbooks, assessment frameworks, and reusable delivery assets
Partner with Solution Owner to develop and maintain SOW templates, LOE models, and scope frameworks that enable delivery teams to structure and price FinOps engagements consistently
Partner with Solution Owner to align FinOps offerings to client demand signals, competitive positioning, and cloud partner co investment opportunities
Support Solution Owner in building and maturing WWT's standalone cloud cost optimization offering, contributing methodology and delivery IP the practice can reuse
Pre Sales SME Support
Support creation and validation of FinOps domain SOWs, LOEs, and technical proposals; identify scope gaps, risk patterns, and pricing inconsistencies before they reach the client
Support RFP and RFI responses as the FinOps subject matter expert, providing solution narratives and differentiators grounded in WWT's actual delivery experience
Support cloud provider field teams and WWT account executives in positioning FinOps offerings and shaping pursuit strategies for strategic accounts