About The Role

Join Zynga, a leading mobile gaming company, as a FinOps Architect. In this role, you will lead the FinOps team, set technical direction, and implement backend services for our games. You will tackle a broad set of technical stacks, drive cost efficiency improvements, and stay up-to-date on changes within cloud hosting providers. You will also assist product management, data analysts, and coordinate with team members across the enterprise. This position offers a range of benefits, including wellness programs, flexible time-off policies, and opportunities for equity participation.

Lead the FinOps team by setting technical direction, crafting and implementing backend services for games.
Drive cost efficiency improvements across the organization by investigating cost optimization and unit economics for various technology vendors.
Propose and design new FinOps tooling using a wide array of patterns, and assist Product Management with prioritizing endeavors based upon organization impact.
Experience serving as a mentor to other engineers
Experience leading projects from the ground up, breaking work into logical components, and delegating tasks
B.S. in Computer Science, Math, Statistics, Engineering, or other quantitative field (or equivalent experience)
Experience collaborating with customers across many teams and levels within an enterprise
Hands-on experience developing APIs, UIs, and data pipelines
Hands-on experience with infrastructure-as-code and continuous integration testing
8+ years of hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS)
Experience serving as a technical leader in an enterprise (collaboration with 50+ teams)
Hands-on experience with SQL tables and SQL queries
Strong collaborative approach
8+ years of hands-on experience with software programming (preferably Python)
Previous experience with FinOps practices and cost management analysis