Staff – Technical Program Manager-Finops

Staff – Technical Program Manager-Finops

Requirements

• Proficiency in technical and soft skills are required for success in this role.
• Guide resource management decisions as part of prioritization and tradeoff discussions.
• Program Management
• Financial Management
• Knowledgeable about contract renewal processes and timelines
• System (people, process, technology, places) design & optimization
• Excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills
• Certification as a FinOps Practitioner and an understanding of FinOps Personas and how these relate to FinOps Domains and Capabilities.
• Knowledge of agile methodologies alongside some experience using tools like Confluence, JIRA, and experience writing project plans.
• Experience communicating with senior executives in both Finance and Informational Technology on topics related to Total Cost of Ownership (TCO), FinOps, and Cloud.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills
• Comfortable presenting to and persuading at the Director and Vice-Presidential level.
• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, Management, Business or related field; experience may be substituted for degree + Minimum of 5+ experience in project management or change management.

Responsibilities

• Drive proactive and constant alignment across all stakeholders towards the program goal.
• Coordinate with stakeholders and product team members to design and deliver financial management and reporting features to drive FinOps governance.
• Relationship Management techniques
• LRP & AOP for the Pillar – aligning to overall Go-Forward Strategy from Product Portfolio.
• Stakeholder management strategy
• Enable accountability of prioritization of product Investment
• Collaborate to balance multiple priorities including unexpected projects that surface
• Developing a comprehensive FinOps governance process aimed at optimizing decision making at scale.
• Collaborating with a Tech Strategy (Core FinOps) team to facilitate a cultural shift toward a more wholistic view of cloud spend in the context of unit cost and business metrics.
• Collaborating with GTP leaders and partners in the Tech Strategy (FinOps) team to establish best practices for Cloud FinOps in several FinOps Domains like Charge back/show back
• Partner with the Data team to build a FinOps Scorecard, validation and reporting.
• Manage communication and analytics around P&L for the Portfolio – CapEx, OpEx, Labor, etc.
• Resource alignment recommendations and utilization guidance
• Qualitative and quantitative data management (for example, feedback, facts, analysis)
• Track progress through setting up the right cadences and report progress against OKRs to teams, cross functional stakeholders, and Walmart leadership.
• Provide accomplishments and key portfolio metrics for Leadership forums like All Hands, MBRs, Pillar reviews
• Define strategic plans for platforms Cloud FinOps goals including attribution via chargeback or showback, efficiencies, forecasting, and unit costing
• Align with product, engineering, strategy, and finance stakeholders on broad range of FinOps strategies and plans
• Execute plans using program management techniques to advance FinOps cloud cost goals driving Product TCO

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience successfully implementing a Continuous Improvement program
• Lean Six Sigma certification
• Quantitative or engineering background
• You bring strategic thinking to everyday Portfolio problems and back recommendations with accurate data.
• Your ability to rise above group think and see beyond the here and now is matched only by your intellectual curiosity.
• You consider yourself to be a student of the world who thrives in an ever-changing environment that holds within its new challenges and chances to prove your expertise.
• You seek out and champion opportunities to improve processes rather than just be added to a project to ensure it is efficiently run.