Senior FinOps Analyst (Azure/Databricks)

Location: Remote within the United States; strong preference for candidates in the Washington, DC Metro Area, with occasional onsite meetings at the client site in Washington, DC. All work must be performed in the United States, and foreign locations and foreign IP addresses are blocked.

Salary: $74,090.00–$125,954.00 annually for full-time employment.

Company

hirify.global is a global advisory and technology services provider delivering technology and management consulting solutions for federal clients.

What you will do

• Develop and maintain FinOps dashboards, executive reporting, metrics, and visibility into cloud spend, utilization, trends, and performance.
• Analyze Azure and Databricks consumption, anomalies, workload utilization, and cost patterns to identify rightsizing and optimization opportunities.
• Develop cloud cost forecasts and compare actual spending with projected usage and demand.
• Evaluate cost-performance tradeoffs across architecture, platform, data, and AI/ML decisions.
• Partner with Product Operations, engineering, data, and technical leads to make cost impacts visible before investments are committed.
• Track savings and efficiency improvements, investigate unusual spending, and translate complex data into recommendations for technical teams and leadership.

Requirements

• U.S. citizenship is required.
• Must reside in the United States, be authorized to work in the United States, and perform all work in the United States.
• Must have lived in the United States for three full years out of the last five years.
• Bachelor’s degree in Data Management, Information Systems, Data Governance, Business Analytics, Computer Science, Library/Information Science, or a related field; a high school diploma plus four additional years of relevant experience may substitute.
• At least six years of relevant experience aligned with the role, including developing dashboards, reports, and analytics. A master’s degree may substitute for two years of relevant experience.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, decision-making, communication, organizational, prioritization, and collaboration skills.

Nice to have

• Experience with FinOps, cloud financial management, forecasting, and cost optimization in Azure.
• Experience analyzing and optimizing Databricks compute, workload utilization, and cost-performance.
• Experience supporting enterprise data platforms, analytics, and AI/ML workloads in cloud environments.
• Experience developing FinOps dashboards, cost/utilization trends, and executive reporting with Power BI or similar tools.
• Ability to translate cloud consumption and technical usage into rightsizing, optimization, and cost-performance recommendations.
• Familiarity with Azure cost management, monitoring, tagging, budgeting, and cloud governance.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time employment with a remote work arrangement limited to the United States.
• Occasional onsite meetings are required at the Washington, DC client site.
• hirify.global promotes collaboration, accountability, continuous improvement, and an inclusive equal-opportunity workplace.
• All candidates must be authorized to work in the United States; new H-1B visa sponsorship is not available.
• AI tools may not be used to generate or assist with interview responses, except where an approved accommodation applies.

Hiring process

• The role is contingent upon a contract award; interviews and offers are being conducted in anticipation of the award.
• The application must be submitted directly by the applicant; third-party applications may be excluded from consideration.