Location
Croydon

Hours
Full Time (compressed hours available)

Salary
£66,229 - £72,852 per annum (London pay scale)

About the Role
As part of the Central FinOps Team, you will enable delivery of data products that allow the Home Office to understand, govern and optimise public cloud spend across AWS and Azure. Your focus will be on ingestion, normalisation and enrichment of cloud billing and usage data, particularly AWS Cost and Usage Reports (CUR) and FOCUS datasets, which form the foundation for departmental reporting. You will ensure the organisation can confidently interpret cloud billing behaviour, including commitment-based discounts and commercial mechanisms, translating this into trusted, reusable data assets.

Working closely with finance and engineering stakeholders, you will ensure outputs meet operational needs, including finance-ready reporting, and improve the quality of standing data underpinning allocation and recharge. A key part of your role will be enabling consistent access to insight through dashboards and datasets, including those built in AWS QuickSight enriched with organisational context such as cost centres and portfolios.

You will also help set minimum standards and requirements for FinOps capability across the hub and spoke model. This role requires a strong focus on data engineering leadership, collaboration with multiple teams, and delivering robust, auditable, and scalable FinOps data products.

Where business needs allow, some roles may be suitable for a combination of office and home-based working, with a minimum of 60% office presence expected.

Experience
- Leading and managing teams to deliver technical data products and projects including data analysis, solution design and reporting.
- Working with stakeholders to gather requirements and deliver clear, actionable findings.
- Presenting complex ideas and recommendations to both technical and non-technical audiences, including senior stakeholders.
- Hands-on experience with data engineering and analytical tools for large-scale cloud cost and usage data, including SQL (Presto/Trino via Athena), PostgreSQL, and Python.
- Extensive experience with AWS Cost and Usage Reports (CUR v1/v2), FOCUS files, and semi-structured data formats such as JSON, Parquet and Iceberg.
- Deep understanding of cloud data platforms and billing data models across AWS and Azure, including pricing, amortisation, allocation, and commercial mechanisms like Savings Plans, Reserved Instances, and Azure Reservations.
- Proven ability to implement best practices in data engineering, automation, version control (Git/GitLab), and automated pipelines using AWS services such as Lambda, Step Functions, DynamoDB, Glue, and QuickSight.
- Experience delivering FinOps capabilities using cloud-native data technologies and implementing multi-cloud cost transparency, allocation, recharge, and optimisation.
- Understanding of governmental finance processes, accounting, and reporting.

About you
- Strong leadership and stakeholder management skills, able to manage expectations and build a service culture around data.
- Collaborative team player who works effectively across multiple teams including finance, analytics, infrastructure, and architecture.
- Detail-oriented with a focus on data quality, process improvement, and operational efficiency.
- Able to balance immediate user needs with long-term strategic investment.
- Committed to maintaining high standards of governance, auditability, and security in data products.
- Comfortable working in a fast-paced government digital environment with a focus on inclusion and diversity.

Qualifications
- Relevant technical qualifications or demonstrable experience in data engineering, cloud platforms, or related fields.
- Knowledge of the Skills Framework for the Information Age (SFIA) levels relevant to this role, including Innovation (INOV) Level 3, Methods and Tools (METL) Level 4, Data Management (DATM) Level 4, Data Modelling and Design (DTAN) Level 4, Database Design (DBDS) Level 3, and Data Engineering (DENG) Level 4.
- Security clearance (Security Check) is required, normally requiring 5 years UK residency in the past 5 years.