Lead - Platform Engineering
Yodlee
- Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Write SQL and Python jobs to ingest, transform, and validate cost and usage data
- Automate reports, alerts, and reconciliation checks; reduce manual work
- Integrate actions with ticketing (e.g., create remediation tasks in Jira)
- Spend Visibility & Reporting
- Maintain daily/weekly/monthly spend reports and dashboards
- Keep a single source of truth for cost, usage, and tags (e.g., AWS CUR/Athena, invoices, APIs)
- Explain spend drivers in plain language for engineers and finance
- Stakeholder Engagement
- Run regular reviews with Engineering, FP&A, and Procurement
- Document decisions, owners, and due dates; follow up until closure
- Provide simple how-to guides for teams on budgets, tags, and cost hygiene
- Process & Controls
- Document processes for reporting, forecasting, and commitments
- Ensure data accuracy and auditability; support internal/external audits as needed
- Propose small, frequent improvements to reduce toil and defects
- Optimization & Commitments
- Identify right-sizing, scheduling, storage tiering, and other cost optimization opportunities
- Recommend and track Savings Plans/Reserved Instances; monitor coverage and utilization
- Quantify savings, impact, and any operational risk
- 3-5 years in cloud cost management, FP&A, or related operations role
- Strong SQL; ability to build and tune queries and models
- Experience with one programming language for automation (Python preferred)
- Hands-on with AWS cost tooling (CUR/Athena, Cost Explorer, Budgets) or similar in Azure/GCP
- AWS development experience
- Familiarity with a BI tool (e.g. Power BI)
- Working knowledge of budgeting, forecasting, and variance analysis
- Clear writing and communication; able to explain trade-offs without jargon