Director Cloud FinOps and Capacity Planning

Profile

Comcast's Technology, Product & Experience organization works at the intersection of media and technology. Our innovative teams are continually developing and delivering products that transform the customer experience. From creating apps like TVGo to new features such as the Talking Guide on the X1 platform, we work every day to make a positive impact through innovation in the pursuit of building amazing products that are enjoyable, easy to use and accessible across all platforms. The team also develops and supports our evolving network architecture, including next-generation consumer systems and technologies, infrastructure and engineering, network integration and management tools, and technical standards. Because our employees are our most valuable asset, we offer a flexible working environment to balance the need to work independently wherever you choose, with days that require collaboration at one of our offices. Our roles primarily reside inside or around one of our Tech Hubs (Philadelphia and surrounding suburbs, Denver, Austin, Silicon Valley, Washington DC/N. Virginia).

Job Summary

As a technology centric and end to end customer experience driven company, Comcast has embarked on a bold journey to embrace cloud computing and cloud-based technologies across its entire business. With this goal in mind, over the last several years, many Engineering organizations across Comcast have begun to leverage cloud solutions and services to modernize their infrastructures and establish their future platforms for innovation. This role will lead the Cloud FinOps and Capacity Planning & Analytics functions in support of our Cloud journey. This is a strategic, highly visible, leadership role that will help to shape the future of 2 critical function

Job Description

What You'll Do:

Lead the FinOps and Capacity Planning Analytics teams for Comcast

Partner with Executive Director Cloud Capacity Planning, Programs & FinOps to define vision, strategy, roadmap, and deliverables

Establish an inclusive, data-driven, and results-oriented culture

Provide monthly cloud reporting, capacity utilization, optimization analysis, and financial chargeback

Support of annual budget and long range planning for both public and private cloud needs and usage

Operate and orchestrate effectively in a large, dynamic multi-cloud and SaaS ecosystem

Communicate and drive organizational-wide FinOps & Capacity Planning strategy and adoption

Provide FinOps training for finance, business operations and technology partners

Provide timely, insightful, and actionable reports to Finance, Business Operations, and Engineering leadership

Build reports, dashboards, and tools to enable senior leadership through engineering teams understand usage, utilization, costs, and opportunities to optimize

What you need to succeed:

10 years of relevant work experience including 5 years of experience leading teams.

FinOps experience in public cloud cost management and optimization on AWS, GCP or Azure preferred

Inquisitive, enthusiastic and diligent, and capable of challenging peers

Solid understanding of hybrid cloud or multi cloud infrastructure financial management

Strong analytical and problem solving skills with excellent communication and presentation skills

Highly motivated self-starter with excellent time management/prioritization skills

Positive relationship leadership skills with ability to guide and influence senior leadership across the organization

Great teammate with the ability to be respected as a trusted partner for the Business Operations, Finance, and Engineer Teams

Our Team:

We have a bias for action and outcomes

We are agile and seek continuous improvement

We take our work seriously, but don't take ourselves too seriously

We are passionate about winning together

We treat customers as partners rather than as tickets to be closed

We value delivering usable solutions now and iterative refinement over holding out for a perfect solution later

The requirements are intended as a guideline only and it is not necessary to meet them all. If you are a highly motivated person who is interested in jumping into something new, believe you can be a culture add and thrive on driving an exciting program from start to finish, then you should apply.

We value critical thinking, self-motivation, and the ability to be successful in an ambiguous and less-structured environment.

We love people who are intellectually curious, use data to make decisions, innovate, elevate the performance of those around them, win as a team, and can express themselves thoughtfully.

Outstanding business judgement leveraging strong critical thinking complemented with a bias for action and execution/operational excellence.

Excellent analytical problem-solving skills and ability to synthesize data from multiple sources to drive data-driven decisions.

Comfort working in an ambiguous environment, and the ability to build a program from scratch - setting your own plans, targets, objectives, and measurements.

Ability to be 'Hands on' - regardless of title, everybody in our team manages programs from top to bottom - meaning from senior executive level stakeholder management down to detailed planning and information management.

We do not overweight Comcast experience - this role is not already targeted for an internal applicant, so anybody interested inside or outside of Comcast should apply

Disclaimer:

This information has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees in this role. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications.

Comcast is an EOE/Veterans/Disabled/LGBT employee

Comcast is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We will consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other basis protected by applicable law.

Education

Bachelor's Degree

While possessing the stated degree is preferred, Comcast also may consider applicants who hold some combination of coursework and experience, or who have extensive related professional experience.

Relevant Work Experience

10 Years

Salary:

Pay Range: This job can be performed in Denver Campus, with a Pay Range of $150,713.72 USD - $226,070.58 USD

Comcast intends to offer the selected candidate base pay within this range, dependent on job-related, non-discriminatory factors such as experience.

Base pay is one part of the Total Rewards that Comcast provides to compensate and recognize employees for their work. Most sales positions are eligible for a Commission under the terms of an applicable plan, while most non-sales positions are eligible for a Bonus. Additionally, Comcast provides best-in-class Benefits. We believe that benefits should connect you to the support you need when it matters most, and should help you care for those who matter most. That's why we provide an array of options, expert guidance and always-on tools, that are personalized to meet the needs of your reality - to help support you physically, financially and emotionally through the big milestones and in your everyday life. Please visit the compensation and benefits summary (https://jobs.comcast.com/life-at-comcast/benefits) on our careers site for more details.

Company info

Comcast
Website : http://corporate.comcast.com