Senior FinOps Architect

Become an asset for the community!

Join La Caisse's team and take pride in contributing to the financial future of millions of Quebecers by creating a more sustainable world.

At La Caisse:

• We value your unique contribution within a global team.
• We trust you with work that allows you to thrive and exceed expectations.
• We offer opportunities to learn alongside generous experts in their fields.
• We fully invest in you, who every day accomplish our mission.

Over the years, we have built a strong culture based on four pillars: ambition to exceed, accountability to implement our beliefs, openness to enrich ourselves with creative ideas, and collaboration to propel us towards the best results for Quebec's population.

Within the Service Reliability team, the person holding this position is the technical and methodological reference for the FinOps framework.

The main responsibilities include designing, implementing, and evolving FinOps practices to establish a sustainable culture of cost accountability, aligned with technological decisions, reliability, and performance.

What You Will Do

• Design and evolve the FinOps framework (practices, governance, indicators, tools);
• Operationalize FinOps across the organization: visibility, showback, continuous optimization, and arbitrations;
• Serve as a FinOps reference for platform and product teams to promote autonomy and sustainable adoption;
• Ensure the quality, consistency, and credibility of cost data used in IT and executive decisions;
• Contribute to FinOps governance instances and support strategic decisions (IT prioritization, investments, migrations);
• Provide complementary expertise in Cloud Cost Management to inform technical decisions and identify concrete optimization levers when relevant.

What Sets You Apart

• Effective communication skills;
• Change management;
• Teamwork;
• Strong customer service orientation;
• Influence and popularization;
• Ability to rally technological and business stakeholders;
• Strong interpersonal skills.

What You Bring

• Bachelor's degree in information technology, software engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience);
• Five (5) years of relevant experience in a FinOps framework (culture, governance, and continuous improvement);
• Comfortable in contexts with varying team maturity;
• Good understanding of cloud environments: AWS and Azure, as well as their cost models (Cloud cost management);
• Knowledge of analytical platforms: Databricks and Snowflake;
• Knowledge of Datadog and other observability tools;
• Ability to translate costs into actionable decisions;
• Systemic vision: cost, reliability, performance, technical debt;
• Proficiency in French and English* both orally and in writing.
• *Oral and/or written interactions with external partners based outside Quebec (e.g., service providers, law firms, peers, bankers, brokerage firms, credit analysis firms, credit agencies, etc.)*

*Feeling that my role is important. Enjoying my daily work. Growing at the pace of my ambitions. Receiving compensation commensurate with my contribution. This is the professional experience offered by La Caisse!*

We carefully review each application and will contact the selected candidates for an interview.

La Caisse offers equal employment opportunities to all. We encourage women, visible and ethnic minorities, Indigenous people, and people with disabilities to apply. If this job posting motivates you but you do not meet all the criteria, please contact us anyway!

La Caisse is also committed to pursuing equity, diversity, and inclusion as a core value and to making it a source of enrichment and pride for all members of the organization. Please let us know if your current condition requires accommodation within the recruitment process.

La Caisse represents the Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec and its subsidiaries.