Cloud Finops Product Owner

**Our opportunity**

Established in 2013 and now based in Blackrock, the ITS Dublin Hub delivers best in industry infrastructure and security services across the Zurich Insurance Group. Whether it's with one of our core capabilities such as Cyber Security, or working with our Cloud or Crowdsourcing teams, our customers are our priority. We work hard to deliver our services excellently with our unique talent. We are committed to working with the best and brightest people from the broadest talent pool possible. We believe a diversity of ideas fosters innovation and engagement, allows us to attract the best people, and to develop the best products, services and solutions. Qualified individuals from all walks of life are encouraged to apply.

**Your role**

The role of
**Cloud FinOps Product Owner** operates in the Cloud Enablement Office (CBO) team within our Cloud Centre of Enablement. This role has a particular emphasis on Financial Management in the public cloud and the global governance framework around that. The Cloud Centre of Enablement (CCoE) is a cross-functional team responsible for developing and managing the cloud strategy, governance, and best practices that the rest of the organization can leverage to transform the business using the cloud.

The CEO ensures the effective governance for the organization to adopt and accelerate Public Cloud use across the business. It does this through the holistic representation of key stakeholders from across the business who form a quorum, who commit to be broadly educated on key Cloud differentiators across security, reliability, availability, cost, and time to market.

The CEO is recognised as the conduit for internal customers of Zurich’s multi-cloud platform to accelerate cloud adoption across the business and manage the roadmap for cloud migrations. The CEO product portfolio spans internal front door cloud services, FinOps, Risk & Compliance and Education. The Cloud FinOps Product owner role would appeal to a person who enjoys variety and developing opportunities within an evolving global function.

**As part of the CEO team delivering the CEO product portfolio you will help to**:

- Own and manage global FinOps activities under the FinOps product
- Grow and improve global FinOps culture and processes within the FinOps community
- Perform FinOps analyses to enhance decision making processes and improving products and services around business cases, budgets, spend, cost savings, chargeback and so on.
- Define, develop and manage the FinOps KPIs and reporting mechanisms
- Manage internal global stakeholders and multiple initiatives across the cloud product portfolio in a trusted advisor capacity
- Perform source data analytics and tooling integration to enhance the FinOps product and offerings e.g., cost management
- Contribute to the cloud education program that includes user training, events, knowledge sharing, and capability building across the enterprise
- Continuous alignment with all Product Owners within the CCoE and IT partners, with the cyclical development of an iterative cloud roadmap to plan for ongoing changes to services\platforms as technologies emerge and new features are requested by users
- Establish mechanism for internal customers to provide feedback on cloud services (i.e., surveys, focus groups, forums)
- Develop and promote CEO products & services with the interests of group IT and cloud consumers alike
- Show initiative, own issues, and take on challenges on behalf of FinOps and the CEO.
- Become familiar with wider IT, CCoE Services and processes
- Become familiar with and adhere to Zurich security, risk and architecture policies.

**Your Skills and Experience**

**As a Cloud FinOps Product Owner, your skills and qualifications will ideally include**:

- 5+years’ experience delivering AWS or Azure public cloud services in a large-scale enterprise environment
- Experience in AWS or Azure cloud financial management practices and programs, with relevant associated certifications
- Relevant degree or diploma programme of study
- Project, program or service delivery management experience in virtual/cloud infrastructures
- Proven experience of working within supplier-led service delivery models
- Proven ability to succeed in collaborative work environments using Agile methodologies

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- 7+years’ experience delivering AWS or Azure public cloud services in a large-scale enterprise environment
- Expert level knowledge of Azure or AWS cost management services with associated certifications
- PowerBI, Service Now, or JIRA platform skills would be beneficial
- Experience with one or more Infrastructure as Code Languages and tooling: Terraform, CloudFormation, Python, AWS/Azure, Power Platform

**Additional Information**

**As well as a competitive salary and a yearly bonus we offer benefits package which includes**:

- Wide range of internal and external trainings
- Ticket restaurant
- Option to work remotely up to 1