FinOps Specialist – Databricks and Cloud

Position Summary Scicom Infrastructure Services is seeking aFinOps Specialistto manage cost visibility, forecasting, financial governance, and optimization for a large-scale Databricks and cloud data platform. This role will partner with engineering, operations, finance, procurement, and program leadership to monitor cloud consumption, identify savings opportunities, improve cost allocation, and ensure platform spending remains aligned with project and business objectives. Key Responsibilities Monitor and analyze Databricks and cloud spending across workspaces, projects, teams, environments, and workloads. Track Databricks compute usage, SQL warehouses, jobs, storage, networking, and related cloud services. Identify idle, oversized, underutilized, or inefficient resources. Recommend improvements involving cluster sizing, autoscaling, job scheduling, serverless compute, storage, and workload design. Develop monthly, quarterly, and annual budgets and forecasts. Compare actual costs against budgets and investigate significant variances. Create cost-allocation models by client, project, contract, cost center, team, or data product. Support showback, chargeback, tagging, and resource-ownership standards. Build dashboards and reports covering spend, trends, forecasts, anomalies, savings, and commitment utilization. Configure budgets, thresholds, alerts, and financial guardrails. Review Databricks and cloud invoices for accuracy and reconcile charges against usage and contract terms