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FinOps Dashboard Developer - Apex Systems Job#: 2090747 Base pay range: $59.00/hr - $59.00/hr Job Summary We are seeking a FinOps Dashboard Developer to design, build, and maintain dashboards that deliver actionable insights on cloud cost, usage, optimization opportunities, and budget/forecast performance. You will bridge raw billing & usage data, engineering, finance, and business stakeholders, making data understandable, timely, and visual. Key Responsibilities Ingest, clean, transform, and enrich cloud billing, usage, license, and carbon/sustainability data; integrate with other business data. Define, implement, and maintain dashboards and visual reports for multiple personas to understand spend, utilization, waste, trends, forecasts, and anomalies. Work with tagging/metadata strategy to ensure cost allocation is accurate; help ensure tagging compliance and correction logic. Create forecasts & variance reporting for cloud spend; surface deviations (budgets vs actuals), highlight overspending, identify optimization opportunities. Build alerting, anomaly detection, and trend monitoring into dashboard/reporting tools. Enable self?service reporting where feasible. Collaborate closely with FinOps practitioners, engineering, finance, procurement, product, and other stakeholders. Ensure data accuracy, consistency, reliabilitymanage upstream dependencies. Implement best practices for performance, scalability, data latency, and maintain documentation of metrics definitions. Stay current on cloud billing models, FinOps standards, emerging practices in cost transparency and sustainability. Must?Haves Strong SQL skills; data modelling and ETL pipeline experience. Experience with cloud providers billing/usage/tag APIs and data exports. Hands?on with data engineering tools (Airflow, dbt, Spark, etc.). FinOps / Domain knowledge of cloud cost concepts and cost optimization strategies. Experience with BI/visualization tools (Tableau, Looker, Power BI, Grafana, etc.). Knowledge of cloud native dashboards (AWS Cost Explorer, Azure Cost Management, GCP Billing). Soft skills: strong communication, cross?functional collaboration, problem?solving. Experience ensuring data quality, metadata/versioning, performance tuning, and alerting on data freshness. Nice?to?Haves Experience with streaming or near?real?time data pipelines and data warehouses (BigQuery, Snowflake, Redshift). Familiarity with cloud providers cost?optimization certifications. Experience embedding sustainability/carbon metrics alongside cost & usage data. FinOps Foundation certification or FinOps Certified Practitioner. Knowledge of FinOps Framework, Reporting & Analytics capabilities. Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) / Success Metrics Dashboard adoption: percentage of core personas using dashboards regularly. Cost transparency: % of cloud spend covered by accurate tagging and metadata. Forecast accuracy: variance between forecasted vs actual cloud spend. Anomaly detection responsiveness: number and severity of cost anomalies flagged and remediated. Time to insight: time from data availability to dashboards updated. Efficiency gains: reductions in engineering or finance effort for ad?hoc cost analyses. Cost savings identified and realized via dashboards. Experience Required: 35 years in data, dashboard, or business intelligence work, especially in cloud or technology cost analytics. Solid experience with cloud cost or usage datasets. Experience interfacing with engineering, finance, product stakeholders and translating requirements. Preferred: Experience in organizations with FinOps practice; prior role as dashboard developer or cost/usage analyst; familiarity with multiple cloud platforms. Tools / Technologies (Typical Stack) Billing/usage APIs from AWS, Azure, GCP. Data warehouse or lake (BigQuery, Redshift, Snowflake). ETL/ELT pipelines (dbt, Airflow, custom scripts). Dashboard / visualization tools (Power BI, Looker, Grafana, Tableau). Version control (git) for dashboard definitions. Python, SQL, and other scripting languages. Required Skills & Qualifications 5+ years overall experience and 2+ years as a FinOps engineer. Strong understanding of cloud platforms and pricing models. Deep understanding of native cost?management tools and Flexera One Cloud Cost Optimization. Proficiency in data analysis and visualization tools (Excel, Power BI, Tableau). Familiarity with scripting languages (Python, PowerShell) for automation. Excellent communication and collaboration skills. Preferred Qualifications FinOps Certified Engineer or similar certification. Experience in DevOps or Cloud Engineering roles. Benefits Overview Apex offers a comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and other insurance plans; an ESPP; a 401(k) program with company match; an HSA; an Employee Assistance Program; corporate discount savings program; and professional development resources. Apex has a dedicated customer service team for consultants, and a certified Career Coach to support career advancement. Equal Opportunity Employment Apex Systems is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by law. We consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in accordance with applicable law. If you are employed at Apex and require accommodation, please contact our Employee Services Department at [email protected] (Do not submit resumes or solicit consultants to this email address). #J-18808-Ljbffr Apex Systems

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