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Azure Senior FinOps Engineer

AI summary of the role

LSEG seeks an Azure Senior FinOps Engineer to manage, optimize, and govern cloud spending across the organization.

No longer in the current catalog. Last included 2026-09-09. Check the employer’s posting for availability.

What you’ll do

  • Perform deep-dive analysis of Azure cost trends, anomalies, and identify improvement areas using data-driven insights
  • Establish and track KPIs for Azure Cloud Financial Performance
  • Construct dashboards to analyze cost trends and anomalies and perform root cause analysis
  • Automate configuration and management of Cloud Financial Management tooling via APIs and pipelines

What you’ll bring

  • At least 3-5 years working experience with Azure Cloud Services and performing optimizations via rightsizing/modernization
  • Experience with REST APIs and crafting automation based on REST APIs
  • Experience with object-oriented programming in at least one language (Python preferred)
  • At least 5+ years experience in a large-scale organisation in a similar role

Technologies

Azure · REST APIs · Python · bash · PowerShell · RBAC · FinOps Foundation · Cloud Financial Management tooling

About LSEG

Global financial markets infrastructure and data business — runs the London Stock Exchange, LCH clearing, FTSE Russell indices, and Refinitiv-derived data & analytics for financial institutions worldwide.

Public · 5000+ people

Source and classification

Internal deployment & tooling · Evidence for this classification:

operations in 70 countries across EMEA, North America, Latin America and Asia Pacific. We employ 25,000 people globally, more than half located in Asia Pacific. LSEG’s ticker symbol is LSEG! Role Description: An Azure Senior FinOps Engineer who combines financial operations (FinOps) expertise with deep technical knowledge of Microsoft Azure to help organizations manage, optimize, and govern their cloud spending effectively. The successful candidate would ideally have a proven background in technical engineering; be able to support the application teams at every stage of the application lifecycle to drive improvements with cost / performance; support Finance & Procurement teams to simplify complex billing data received; and to assist Architecture & Design teams where sharing cloud best practice and industrial experience aids long-term decision making! Key Responsibilities: The Azure
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About Us: LSEG (London Stock Exchange Group) is more than a diversified global financial markets infrastructure and data business. We are dedicated, open-access partners with a commitment to excellence in delivering the services our customers expect from us. With extensive experience, deep knowledge and worldwide presence across financial markets, we enable businesses and economies around the world to fund innovation, manage risk and create jobs. It’s how we’ve contributed to supporting the financial stability and growth of communities and economies globally for more than 300 years. Through a comprehensive suite of trusted financial market infrastructure services – and our open-access model – we provide the flexibility, stability and trust that enable our customers to pursue their ambitions with confidence and clarity. LSEG is headquartered in the United Kingdom, with significant operations in 70 countries across EMEA, North America, Latin America and Asia Pacific. We employ 25,000 people globally, more than half located in Asia Pacific. LSEG’s ticker symbol is LSEG! Role Description: An Azure Senior FinOps Engineer who combines financial operations (FinOps) expertise with deep technical knowledge of Microsoft Azure to help organizations manage, optimize, and govern their cloud spending effectively. The successful candidate would ideally have a proven background in technic [... source excerpt omitted ...] simplify complex billing data received; and to assist Architecture & Design teams where sharing cloud best practice and industrial experience aids long-term decision making! Key Responsibilities: The Azure Senior FinOps Engineer is responsible for working with our business key collaborators, partners and customers to enable an efficient use of Cloud during the application lifecycle. Deep understanding of Azure Cloud Services and architectures, pricing models, and billing structures that will allow the candidate to perform deep dives and complex analysis of cost trends, anomalies, identify areas of improvement and support decision making with data driven-insights. Ensure that the [... source excerpt omitted ...] orate with application teams to understand their approaches and designs to optimize performance and costs. Keep up to date with industry trends so that business collaborators and customers can be advised how to use the latest services to improve cost/performance ratios. Collaborate with other team members to understand and break down sophisticated requests using diagramming tools and team breakout sessions. Understand the needs of our internal customers: finance team, procurement team, business application team and propose new solutions to their challenges. Minimum Requirements: At least 3-5 years working experience with Azure Cloud Services and performing optimizations via

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