FinOps Architect

• Come join our team at Zynga making an impact across all of the company’s games - Mobile Game Tech (MGT)
• Lead the FinOps team by setting technical direction, crafting and implementing backend services for our games
• We’re looking for outstanding engineers with a passion for technology and the desire to work in a team with dynamic strengths
• This unique position will challenge you to tackle situations across a broad set of technical stacks, to soak up internal business logic from all kinds of teams, and to drive cost efficiency improvements across the organization
• This FinOps team expands beyond just AWS and GCP and investigates cost optimization and unit economics for a variety of technology vendors
• Lead all technical aspects of the FinOps team’s software development and data analysis, including mentorship of software and cloud engineers
• Stay up-to-date on changes within Cloud Hosting Providers (AWS) and other vendor software (Unity, Splunk, Datadog, Jetbrains, etc) to identify new cost savings opportunities for the organization
• Propose and design new FinOps tooling using a wide array of patterns: Data Pipeline, API, Cron jobs, Slack bot, UI, SQL, NoSQL, Tableau
• Assist Product Management with prioritizing endeavors based upon organization impact, estimated cost reduction, and level of effort
• Assist Data Analysts with designing SQL tables and using Tableau effectively for accurate data analysis
• Coordinate with team members across the enterprise to ensure cost optimization and cost transparency initiatives are effective and valuable
• Partner with engineering, finance, and business teams to resolve ad hoc FinOps inquiries, provide actionable insights, and drive data-informed cost optimization decisions
• Serve as a technical advisor to internal customers and stakeholders, addressing complex FinOps-related questions and providing guidance on cloud cost optimization, architecture decisions, and best practices

Benefits

• WELLNESS - Gym benefits, wellness programs, employee assistance programs and generous time-off policies
• FOOD - Food and snacks made in-house or delivered, healthy snack kitchens with drinks and treats, coffee bars, regular social gatherings and happy hours
• WORK & LIFE - Flexible time-off policies (DTO), office rest areas, gaming spaces, employee discounts and more
• TRANSIT BENEFITS - Shuttle service in select locations, commuter/parking benefits, secure bicycle storage, business travel assistance
• RESOURCE GROUPS - Women at Zynga (WAZ), zCares charitable giving, zParents, zEndurance adventure club, BZU, zPride LGBTQ+ inclusion and belonging
• COMPENSATION - Performance bonuses, opportunities for equity participation & retirement/pension savings support
• HEALTH - Medical, dental & vision covered for employees, with participation for employees eligible dependents, plus disability and life insurance program
• FAMILY - Generous parental leave for birth parents, partners and adoptive families, plus Infertility support, emergency child care and flexible time-off policies

• Experience collaborating with customers across many teams and levels within an enterprise
• Experience serving as a mentor to other engineers
• Hands-on experience developing APIs, UIs, and data pipelines
• Hands-on experience with infrastructure-as-code and continuous integration testing
• 8+ years of hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS)
• Strong collaborative approach
• Hands-on experience with SQL tables and SQL queries
• 8+ years of hands-on experience with software programming (preferably Python)
• B.S. in Computer Science, Math, Statistics, Engineering, or other quantitative field (or equivalent experience)
• Experience serving as a technical leader in an enterprise (collaboration with 50+ teams)
• Experience leading projects from the ground up, breaking work into logical components, and delegating tasks
• Previous experience with FinOps practices and cost management analysis