Datavant
Senior Infrastructure Engineer (FinOps)
Job Summary
The FinOps Specialist at Datavant partners with engineering, data science, and finance teams to manage and optimize cloud infrastructure costs. They define and implement best practices for cloud utilization, create dashboards and reports, and track key performance indicators related to cost savings and budget adherence. The role requires experience with cloud technologies, automation, and effective communication to promote financial accountability across teams. The focus is on enhancing visibility, fostering collaboration, and ensuring cost-effective cloud operations within a health data exchange environment.
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Benefits
Job Description
Datavant is a data platform company and the world’s leader in health data exchange. Our vision is that every healthcare decision is powered by the right data, at the right time, in the right format.
Our platform is powered by the largest, most diverse health data network in the U.S., enabling data to be secure, accessible and usable to inform better health decisions. Datavant is trusted by the world’s leading life sciences companies, government agencies, and those who deliver and pay for care.
By joining Datavant today, you’re stepping onto a high-performing, values-driven team. Together, we’re rising to the challenge of tackling some of healthcare’s most complex problems with technology-forward solutions. Datavanters bring a diversity of professional, educational and life experiences to realize our bold vision for healthcare.
What We’re Looking For
As an FinOps Specialist at Datavant, you will be a partner to Development and Platform engineers, data scientists, and architects in their use of cloud infrastructure and software license management - and optimization of its cost. You will help define the best practices and methodologies for infrastructure setup and maintenance from a budget vs cost perspective, lending assistance to Product and Finance partners as they scope and propose new features and applications and assess their long term financial viability. You will work closely with the Data Infrastructure team in creating reporting to address how we identify, communicate, and track costs while partnering with Technical PMs and Delivery Leads to escalate, and respond to technology cost trends.
What You Will Do
- Define the objectives of your FinOps practice, including identifying and tracking existing cost reduction targets, improved visibility of cloud utilization, and enhanced financial accountability
- Partner with finance to forecast costs and track against actuals
- Encourage open communication and collaboration between different teams to identify and address cost issues collectively
- Utilize cloud provider cost management dashboards and dedicated FinOps platforms to gain comprehensive visibility into cloud spending across all departments
- Enforce existing tagging strategy to accurately attribute costs to specific applications, teams, and projects
- Create dashboards and reports to monitor cloud spend, identify trends, identify and alert on anomalies, and track progress towards goals
- Work with technology teams to ensure proper savings vehicles are in place in all clouds
- Participate in creating ROI and break-even scenarios for software or PaaS commitments
- Work with finance and business partners to ensure costs are attributed to the proper teams to promote accountability and cost-conscious behavior
- Regularly review FinOps practices, adapt to changing usage patterns, and incorporate feedback from stakeholders to refine your approach
- Track key performance indicators (KPIs) like cost savings, cloud utilization, and budget adherence to assess the effectiveness of your FinOps practice
What You Need to Succeed
- 3+ years of experience with infrastructure management, or platform engineering experience
- Experience in automation, networking, and general IT infrastructure
- In-depth knowledge of cloud computing and network technologies
- Proven history of collaborating with multiple teams while managing multiple workstreams and tracking multiple deliverables
- Communication skills and the ability to describe complex problems to non-technical staff
- Comfort level reporting progress - and assigning deliverables - to staff at multiple levels in the organization
- Familiarity with the following technologies:
- Compute technologies: Azure AWS, Sigma
- Reporting: DBT, Sigma (or similar) Reporting
- Databases: Snowflake, Athena, Azure APIs
- Automation: Github, ECR/ACR
- Curiosity, adaptability, and flexibility needed to navigate a growing enterprise
We are committed to building a diverse team of Datavanters who are all responsible for stewarding a high-performance culture in which all Datavanters belong and thrive. We are proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, disability, veteran status, or other legally protected status.
At Datavant our total rewards strategy powers a high-growth, high-performance, health technology company that rewards our employees for transforming health care through creating industry-defining data logistics products and services.
The range posted is for a given job title, which can include multiple levels. Individual rates for the same job title may differ based on their level, responsibilities, skills, and experience for a specific job.
To ensure the safety of patients and staff, many of our clients require post-offer health screenings and proof and/or completion of various vaccinations such as the flu shot, Tdap, COVID-19, etc. Any requests to be exempted from these requirements will be reviewed by Datavant Human Resources and determined on a case-by-case basis. Depending on the state in which you will be working, exemptions may be available on the basis of disability, medical contraindications to the vaccine or any of its components, pregnancy or pregnancy-related medical conditions, and/or religion.
This job is not eligible for employment sponsorship.
Datavant is committed to a work environment free from job discrimination. We are proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, disability, veteran status, or other legally protected status. To learn more about our commitment, please review our EEO Commitment Statement here. Know Your Rights, explore the resources available through the EEOC for more information regarding your legal rights and protections. In addition, Datavant does not and will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay.
At the end of this application, you will find a set of voluntary demographic questions. If you choose to respond, your answers will be anonymous and will help us identify areas for improvement in our recruitment process. (We can only see aggregate responses, not individual ones. In fact, we aren’t even able to see whether you’ve responded.) Responding is entirely optional and will not affect your application or hiring process in any way.
Datavant is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with physical and mental disabilities. If you need an accommodation while seeking employment, please contact us at [email protected]. We will review your request for reasonable accommodation on a case-by-case basis.
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