Head of FinOps and IT Capacity Planning - Edinburgh - New Role (REFBJ10)
A leading organisation in central Edinburgh requires a Head of FinOps and IT Capacity Planning to join its technology services team.
The successful candidate will be accountable for overseeing and optimizing the capacity planning/management for both technology infrastructure and applications, as well as leading a team who analyse capacity usage data, generate reports and provide insight on future forecasting across the infrastructure and application estate.
Key responsibilities include:
* Analysing and predicting future IT Infrastructure capacity needs based on business growth, usage trends, and technological advancements.
* Overseeing IT Infrastructure capacity planning (for servers, storage, networking, database, licences and other infrastructure components).
* Meeting/exceeding FinOps targets for cost reallocation and cloud optimisation.
* Proactive and effective management of the Global FinOps services.
* Analysing capacity usage data, generating reports, and presenting findings to senior management.
* Identifying opportunities to enhance reporting quality, grow the scope and coverage of capacity observability and improve capacity reporting.
* Identifying potential capacity-related risks and developing mitigation strategies to prevent performance issues or service disruptions.
Suitable candidates will have experience of leading technical IT infrastructure capacity management functions, ideally in a financial services organisation. Experience leading global teams and collaboration with multi disciplined technical teams would also be advantageous. Other skills & experience include:
* Strong knowledge of IT Infrastructure.
* Management of Opex cost centres - both FTEs and supplier Opex cost.
* Business planning experience and the ability to forecast cost for budget cycles.
* Excellent communication skills both written and verbal, with the ability to keep reports updated on strategic initiatives by means of written updates, stand up Town Halls and presentations.
* Knowledge of service governance processes and the ability to understand risk to services.
* ITIL knowledge and experience of working within ITIL aligned organisations.
Excellent benefits package you would expect from a global leader.
Please send CV for full job description and an informal chat.
Seniority level
Mid-Senior level
Employment type
Full-time
Job function
Information Technology, Finance, and Other
Industries
Financial Services, Technology, Information and Media, and Information Services
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