Architect - FinOps

Job description

Level Up Your Career with Zynga! At Zynga, we bring people together through the power of play. As a global leader in interactive entertainment and a proud label of Take-Two Interactive, our games have been downloaded over 6 billion times—connecting players in 175+ countries through fun, strategy, and a little friendly competition. From thrilling casino spins to epic strategy battles, mind-bending puzzles, and social word challenges, our diverse game portfolio has something for everyone. Fan-favorites and latest hits include FarmVille™, Words With Friends™, Zynga Poker™, Game of Thrones Slots Casino™, Wizard of Oz Slots™, Hit it Rich! Slots™, Wonka Slots™, Top Eleven™, Toon Blast™, Empires & Puzzles™, Merge Dragons!™, CSR Racing™, Harry Potter: Puzzles & Spells™, Match Factory™, and Color Block Jam™—plus many more! Founded in 2007 and headquartered in California, our teams span North America, Europe, and Asia, working together to craft unforgettable gaming experiences. Whether you're spinning, strategizing, matching, or competing, Zynga is where fun meets innovation—and where you can take your career to the next level. Join us and be part of the play! Position Overview: Come join our team at Zynga making an impact across all of the company’s games - Mobile Game Tech (MGT). Lead the FinOps team by setting technical direction, crafting and implementing backend services for our games. We’re looking for outstanding engineers with a passion for technology and the desire to work in a team with dynamic strengths. This unique position will challenge you to tackle situations across a broad set of technical stacks, to soak up internal business logic from all kinds of teams, and to drive cost efficiency improvements across the organization. This FinOps team expands beyond just AWS and GCP and investigates cost optimization and unit economics for a variety of technology vendors. What You'll Do: Lead all technical aspects of the FinOps team’s software development and data analysis, including mentorship of software and cloud engineers Stay up-to-date on changes within Cloud Hosting Providers (AWS) and other vendor software (Unity, Splunk, Datadog, Jetbrains, etc) to identify new cost savings opportunities for the organization Propose and design new FinOps tooling using a wide array of patterns: Data Pipeline, API, Cron jobs, Slack bot, UI, SQL, NoSQL, Tableau Assist Product Management with prioritizing endeavors based upon organization impact, estimated cost reduction, and level of effort Assist Data Analysts with designing SQL tables and using Tableau effectively for accurate data analysis Coordinate with team members across the enterprise to ensure cost optimization and cost transparency initiatives are effective and valuable Partner with engineering, finance, and business teams to resolve ad hoc FinOps inquiries, provide actionable insights, and drive data-informed cost optimization decisions. Serve as a technical advisor to internal customers and stakeholders, addressing complex FinOps-related questions and providing guidance on cloud cost optimization, architecture decisions, and best practices. What You Bring: B.S. in Computer Science, Math, Statistics, Engineering, or other quantitative field (or equivalent experience) Experience serving as a technical leader in an enterprise (collaboration with 50+ teams) Experience collaborating with customers across many teams and levels within an enterprise Experience serving as a mentor to other engineers Experience leading projects from the ground up, breaking work into logical components, and delegating tasks 8+ years of hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS) 8+ years of hands-on experience with software programming (preferably Python) Hands-on experience with SQL tables and SQL queries Hands-on experience developing APIs, UIs, and data pipelines Hands-on experience with infrastructure-as-code and continuous integration testing Strong collaborative approach Bonus Points: Previous experience with FinOps practices and cost management analysis <