Product Solutions Architect - FinOps
Core
Serve as the in-house subject matter expert for Datadog's Cloud Cost Management products, partnering with Field teams to design use cases, implement best practices, and drive adoption of cost visibility, allocation, and optimization across AWS, Azure, GCP, and Kubernetes environments.
Role type
Senior IC Product Solutions Architect (FinOps/Cloud Cost Management)
Builds
Reusable technical collateral (reference architectures, guides, documentation) and customer success strategies for Cloud Cost Management and AI cost attribution.
Domain
Cloud Infrastructure & FinOps (AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, AI Tokenomics)
Required skills
Cloud cost management & optimization, FinOps program building, Cloud infrastructure & observability concepts (tracing, metrics, logging), Python & SQL for billing data analysis, Infrastructure-as-Code, Tagging strategies, Capacity planning, AI cost attribution & tokenomics
Preferred skills
FinOps Foundation practices, Commitment management (Savings Plans, Reserved Instances), Experience with Cloudability/CloudHealth/Vantage/Kubecost, Observability tool ownership (Datadog/SRE/DevOps), FinOps certification
Technologies
AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, Python, SQL, Datadog, Anthropic, OpenAI, AWS Bedrock, Google Gemini, Vertex AI, GitHub Copilot
Responsibilities
Provide architectural guidance on capacity planning and performance vs. cost trade-offs; Guide customers on tokenomics and AI cost attribution; Help enterprise clients track real-time AI spend and set up cost anomaly monitoring; Partner with Field teams to design tagging, cost allocation, showback/chargeback models, and cost reporting; Create high-impact technical collateral including reference architectures and guides; Act as a trusted advisor to Product Management to shape roadmaps for cost allocation and FinOps integrations
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC
