Sr Manager Technology FinOps Dallas or Detroit metro

Senior Manager Technology- Cloud FinOps

The Senior Manager Technology for Cloud FinOps will be responsible for overseeing the financial operations of our cloud infrastructure. This senior leadership role requires a strategic thinker with deep expertise in cloud cost management, financial planning, and operational efficiency. The ideal candidate will have a proven track record of driving cost optimization and financial transparency in a cloud environment while supporting the company's growth and innovation objectives. This role sits at the intersection of finance strategy and technology, with a unique focus on surfacing the financial impact of platform architecture changes, optimizing cloud spend, and enabling smarter business decisions at scale.

• Develop and execute the Cloud FinOps strategy in alignment with Comerica's overall business objectives.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to develop, evaluate and implement best practices for horizontal and vertical scaling across cloud platforms.
• Ensure reliability, resiliency and performance through capacity planning, autoscaling policies and cost-optimization strategies.
• Lead, mentor, and develop a high-performing Cloud FinOps team, and collaborate with product, engineering teams and senior leadership to provide financial insights and recommendations related to cloud spending.
• Work cross functionally across teams to drive and implement cloud cost-saving initiatives and best practices to maximize cloud investment.
• Oversee the budgeting, forecasting, and financial planning processes for Comerica's cloud infrastructure and analyze cloud spending data to identify trends, variances, and opportunities for cost optimization on an ongoing basis.
• Develop and implement a driver-based cost model to analyze and optimize cloud consumption for AWS, Azure and Google Cloud Platform (GCP). This model will be instrumental in identifying cost-saving opportunities, ensuring efficient cloud resource utilization, and driving financial accountability across all product and engineering teams using the cloud environments.
• Oversee the implementation and maintenance of cloud financial management tools and systems while leveraging technology to automate and improve cloud cost management and cloud financial operations.
• Work closely with other departments, including Product, Engineering, Finance, and IT, to support cloud initiatives, foster a culture of collaboration and communication across the organization, and provide training and support to teams on cloud cost management best practices.
• Develop and deliver regular reports and dashboards on cloud spending and financial performance, provide actionable insights to support strategic decision-making, and monitor and report on key performance indicators (KPIs) related to cloud financial operations.

Position Responsibilities:

Strategy

• Partner with corporate functional leaders and execute a technology strategy that will enhance overall business capabilities.
• Stay abreast of technology industry trends and best practices.
• Continuously transform the organization to increase efficiencies and reduce overall expense.
• Partner with innovation team to test and learn emerging technology and its viable applicability to enhance corporate business capabilities.

Delivery Planning and Execution

• Create, prioritize, plan and execute portfolio/product roadmaps through collaboration with Product Management and DevOps, including the on-going resequencing of projects in the portfolio roadmap as priorities shift.
• Complete 90% of projects within 5-10% of approved funding and 1 month of baselined completion date.
• Reduce time to market by utilizing Agile methodologies.
• Provides insights on risks based on broad experience. Develops project risk profile, mitigation plan and contingency plan.

Technology/Operational/ Risk Control

• Lead integration and synergy between architecture/technology planning and development initiatives, providing direction and decisions in application development to support platforms.
• Cultivate good system management disciplines including clearly defined and documented roles and responsibilities, documented phase processes and checkpoint and detailed planning for system deployment.
• Ensures compliance and control activities support technology and enterprise business objectives and are aligned with executive risk tolerances and expectations.
• Ensures processes and controls within assigned area to enhance performance, security, reliability and availability of systems.
• Drive a continuous improvement and compliant culture through documented policies, procedures and architecture.

Leadership

• Leads large size technical project teams or programs that span the enterprise.
• Manage the financials of the assigned area with attention to the details of budgets while exhibiting a strict cost discipline and financial performance.
• Manage and develop team cultivating a spirit of one team with shared goals and objectives.
• Select, motivate and retain high performing talent.
• Work with senior leaders to evolve culture and organizational behavior, elevating technology into a strategic partner.
• Act as the principal technology advisor to corporate organizations and a champion for identifying, leading, and driving information technology transformation.

Position Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree from an accredited university in Computer Science, Engineering, Math or other relevant technology degrees or equivalent through a combination of education and/or technology experience or High School diploma or GED and 12 years of progressively responsible experience
• 8 years of experience in Technology and proficiency
• 8 years of experience leading large, complex/critical technology projects
• 8 years of experience influencing strategy for large organizations
• 5 years of experience managing others
• This position is not eligible for sponsorship. Must have indefinite employment authorization.

Preferred Qualifications:

• AWS certification is required. FinOps, Azure and/or GCP certifications are a plus.

About Comerica
We know our employees are critical to our overall success and we are dedicated to investing in their future. One of the ways we do this is to offer a comprehensive Total Rewards package designed to recognize and reward individual performance, as well support health, well-being, development and security for our colleagues and their family. Total Rewards consists of cash compensation, development and flexible benefit programs designed to meet individual needs today and in the future. Your salary will be commensurate with your work experience and our programs are reviewed regularly to ensure each remain competitive. We are proud to offer benefits such as health and welfare programs, strong retirement benefits, and generous paid time off programs. You and your eligible family members, including domestic partners and their children, can participate in medical, dental, and vision benefits, 401(k) and pension, income protection benefits such as life insurance, AD&D, and supplemental health programs to offset unexpected health care expenses. We also have a variety of time off programs for things like vacation, sick time, disability, and parental leave. Eligibility for some programs varies based on employment status and tenure.

Upon offer, Comerica conducts a comprehensive background and fingerprint check. Your fingerprints will be used to check the criminal history records of the FBI and may be subscribed in the FBI's Record of Arrest and Prosecution Background ("RAP Back") service, which provides ongoing notification to the Company of any updates to your criminal history.

NMLS certification requirement: where applicable, a favorable background check screening, credit check, fingerprint check, and NMLS certification is required in accordance with the SAFE Act.

Comerica Incorporated (NYSE: CMA) is a financial services company headquartered in Dallas, Texas, and strategically aligned into three major business segments; the Commercial Bank, the Retail Bank, and Wealth Management. Comerica's colleagues focus on relationships, and helping people and businesses be successful. In addition to Texas, Comerica Bank locations can be found in Arizona, California, Florida and Michigan, with select businesses operating in several other states, as well as in Canada and Mexico.

Comerica is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer - disability/veteran.