Corporate Vice President - Senior FinOps Developer Engineer Job Details | New York Life Insurance Co

New York Life is a mutual insurance company focused on delivering financial security and purpose-driven innovation. The company is seeking a Corporate Vice President - Senior FinOps Developer Engineer to build scalable AWS cost visibility, optimization, governance, and automation solutions. The role partners with Engineering, Finance, and Cloud Platform teams to embed cost awareness into cloud development and operations.

Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain automated solutions to monitor, analyze, and optimize AWS spend across accounts and services
• Identify and implement cost-saving strategies (e.g., rightsizing, Savings Plans, Reserved Instances, storage tiering, scheduling)
• Build cost-aware architectures in collaboration with engineering teams
• Design and implement FinOps tooling, APIs, and data pipelines for cost visibility and governance
• Automate cost allocation, tagging enforcement, and chargeback/showback models
• Integrate AWS billing data into centralized data platforms for analytics and reporting
• Build scalable dashboards and reporting systems using tools like QuickSight, Tableau, or Power BI
• Develop forecasting models and anomaly detection systems for cloud spend
• Enable self-service cost insights for engineering and business teams
• Establish and enforce cloud cost governance frameworks, tagging standards, and policies
• Embed FinOps principles into CI/CD pipelines and engineering workflows
• Drive adoption of cost optimization best practices across teams
• Partner with Finance to align cloud usage with budgets and forecasts
• Work with Engineering teams to balance cost, performance, and scalability
• Educate teams on AWS cost management and FinOps principles

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience)
• AWS certification (e.g., Solutions Architect, DevOps Engineer)
• 3–5+ years of experience in FinOps, cloud engineering, or cloud cost optimization
• Strong hands-on experience with AWS services, pricing models, and billing architecture
• Experience with cost tools such as AWS Cost Explorer, Harness CCM, Apptio, CloudCheckr or similar
• Proficiency in data analysis and visualization tools such as Python, SQL, Power BI, or Excel
• Experience building data pipelines, dashboards, and financial models
• Strong understanding of cloud architecture and distributed systems
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to translate data into actionable insights
• Background in software engineering or platform engineering
• Experience with AWS-native services (e.g., Cost & Usage Reports, QuickSight)
• Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation)
• Experience implementing automated governance and policy enforcement
• FinOps certifications (e.g., FinOps Practitioner)