Corporate Vice President - Senior FinOps Developer Engineer Job Details | New York Life Insurance Co

New York Life is a longstanding mutual insurance company dedicated to providing financial security and peace of mind. They are seeking a Senior FinOps Developer Engineer to join their Cloud Business Office team, focusing on maximizing AWS cloud investments through automation, tooling, and engineering-driven FinOps practices. The role involves developing scalable solutions for cost optimization, financial governance, and collaboration with various teams to drive cost-efficient decisions.

Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain automated solutions to monitor, analyze, and optimize AWS spend across accounts and services
• Identify and implement cost-saving strategies (e.g., rightsizing, Savings Plans, Reserved Instances, storage tiering, scheduling)
• Build cost-aware architectures in collaboration with engineering teams
• Design and implement FinOps tooling, APIs, and data pipelines for cost visibility and governance
• Automate cost allocation, tagging enforcement, and chargeback/showback models
• Integrate AWS billing data into centralized data platforms for analytics and reporting
• Build scalable dashboards and reporting systems using tools like QuickSight, Tableau, or Power BI
• Develop forecasting models and anomaly detection systems for cloud spend
• Enable self-service cost insights for engineering and business teams
• Establish and enforce cloud cost governance frameworks, tagging standards, and policies
• Embed FinOps principles into CI/CD pipelines and engineering workflows
• Drive adoption of cost optimization best practices across teams
• Partner with Finance to align cloud usage with budgets and forecasts
• Work with Engineering teams to balance cost, performance, and scalability
• Educate teams on AWS cost management and FinOps principles

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience)
• AWS certification (e.g., Solutions Architect, DevOps Engineer)
• 3–5+ years of experience in FinOps, cloud engineering, or cloud cost optimization
• Strong hands-on experience with AWS services, pricing models, and billing architecture
• Experience with cost tools such as AWS Cost Explorer, Harness CCM, Apptio, CloudCheckr or similar
• Proficiency in data analysis and visualization tools such as Python, SQL, Power BI, or Excel
• Experience building data pipelines, dashboards, and financial models
• Strong understanding of cloud architecture and distributed systems
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to translate data into actionable insights
• Background in software engineering or platform engineering
• Experience with AWS-native services (e.g., Cost & Usage Reports, QuickSight)
• Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation)
• Experience implementing automated governance and policy enforcement
• FinOps certifications (e.g., FinOps Practitioner)