FinOps Practitioner

Are you ready to strengthen our FinOps practice within a complex, high‑impact IT environment? Do you naturally take the lead, bring structure, and energize teams to turn cost‑ and efficiency opportunities into measurable outcomes? Can you combine deep technical expertise (cloud and on‑premises) with strong stakeholder management and hands‑on execution? If you’re a true FinOps professional who thrives on collaboration, challenges teams constructively, and gains energy from making visible progress, we would love to hear from you.

We are expanding our FinOps team with a FinOps Practitioner, a visible, proactive professional who blends project management, technical and financial affinity, data engineering, and data‑driven decision‑making. In this role, you will support our major spending domains in identifying and realizing optimization opportunities across cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, GCP) and on‑premises environments (VMware, storage, databases, containers, and more), while also contributing to FinOps data engineering and analytics initiatives.

FinOps Team (What we do)

The FinOps Services capability is delivered by the sub area Consumer Services within the area Engineering Services. Besides FinOps, this sub area also delivers Container Platforms, Databases, Virtual Machines, and various other products across Rabobank’s three landing zones (Azure, AWS and on‑premises).

Guided by our vision that all IT consumers in the bank take ownership of their IT usage and spend to unlock maximum business value, the FinOps team empowers the organization to make informed and accountable technology decisions. We enable this vision by providing cost transparency and efficiency by combining technology insight, financial stewardship, and engineering ways of working.

We enable product teams, platform teams, and infrastructure domains to:

• Understand where technology spend comes from (cloud and on‑premises)
• Translate cost drivers into actionable usage and optimization insights
• Implement governance, guardrails, and standards
• Build a continuous optimization culture (not a one‑off savings exercise)

We work closely with engineering, platform owners, procurement, finance, and senior stakeholders to ensure cost optimization is embedded into day‑to‑day delivery. We also work closely with the Tech Support Office within our division, responsible for the functional delivery of the FinOps practice.

You & your role

As FinOps Practitioner, you are the driver who turns optimization ambitions into execution. You lead cross‑domain initiatives, create momentum, and ensure that agreed actions actually happen, in a continuous cycle.

Top responsibilities

• Lead FinOps engagement with high‑spend consumers, driving cost transparency, accountability, and continuous optimization.
• Analyze cloud and on‑premises cost drivers and translate insights into clear, actionable improvement plans with measurable targets.
• Embed FinOps way of working by establishing governance, standards, guardrails, and a consistent optimization cadence (reviews, steering, reporting).
• Enable teams to act on cost signals by connecting spend to architectural and operational choices, with a shift‑left approach, and ensuring insights turn into outcomes.
• Act as a strategic connector between engineering, finance, procurement, and leadership, aligning on forecasting, budgeting, value realization, and communicating clear narratives.

Together we achieve more than alone

You really get the space here to drive product innovation that impacts thousands of engineers daily, and you can feel the transformation you're creating, Product Manager

You & your talent

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience with 3+ years' experience in complex IT environments (platform, infrastructure, engineering, or technology transformation)
• FinOps Certified Practitioner (FOCP) or FinOps Certified Professional, with strong knowledge of and experience in the framework and capabilities
• Strong IT and engineering credibility, able to speak the language of platform, cloud, and infrastructure teams.
• Proven project and delivery discipline, bringing structure, prioritization, and momentum across multiple teams or domains.
• Data‑driven and analytical, skilled at creating and using dashboards (Power BI), identifying patterns, leveraging FOCUS data and turning insights into clear narratives.
• Effective stakeholder management, engaging confidently from engineers to senior leadership and challenging constructively.
• Demonstrated experience in cost optimization, efficiency, and operational excellence initiatives, with solid financial affinity and understanding of basic corporate finance procedures and structures (e.g., budgeting, forecasting, chargeback/showback, depreciation, unit economics).
• Technical expertise across cloud (Azure/AWS/GCP), on‑premises platforms (VMware, storage, databases), and containers/Kubernetes (AKS/EKS/OpenShift), with the ability to identify and help implement FinOps optimization opportunities.
• Leadership and ownership mindset, able to zoom out for strategy and zoom in for execution while bringing others along.
• Highly proactive, visible, and outcome‑driven, with strong energy and presence.
• Resilient, collaborative, and adaptable, building trust, influencing across disciplines, and thriving in complex environments.