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Principal Engineer - FinOps and AI Cost Control

Mapfre·Madrid, Spain

What they offer

  • Hybrid

    Office and home days — the ad has the split.

What they ask for

  • Have the right to work in Spain

    Mapfre doesn't mention sponsorship in the ad.

  • Speak native-level Spanish

    Listed as a requirement in the ad.

  • Be near Madrid for hybrid days

    No relocation package mentioned.

  • Have senior-level experience

    Lead-level role.

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What you'll do

Make our platform, within the FinOps framework, a strategic capability for the Group: enabling planning, forecasting, and optimization of cloud and AI costs, especially those associated with LLM token consumption; providing clear, actionable, and traceable financial visibility at different levels of the organization; and enabling corporate mechanisms for quotas, alerts, budget control, optimization, and financial governance.

Take ownership of the FinOps Platform, defining its vision, roadmap, priorities, and evolution criteria.

Lead AI cost control at MAPFRE, incorporating specific capabilities into PLUTO360 to measure, govern, and optimize LLM token consumption and artificial intelligence services.

Evolve existing mechanisms for quota management, cloud cost control, and alerts to cover AI, GenAI, and intensive LLM consumption scenarios.

Define visibility, reporting, and traceability models by product, team, application, provider, use case, and organizational unit.

Define and evolve budgeting, forecasting, and optimization models for cloud and AI costs.

Design and govern chargeback/showback models supporting multiple allocation criteria for cloud, AI, and shared services.

Lead the evolution of the FinOps Planner, Tracker, and Optimizer modules, incorporating specific capabilities for LLM scenarios.

Define cost calculators, scenario simulators, and optimization mechanisms for cloud, AI, and token consumption.

Design executive dashboards with visibility by entity, country, product, provider, and use case.

Align the FinOps model with the TBM framework (CAPEX/OPEX) for Data Centers and with the new needs for AI financial governance.

Define functional requirements, Definition of Done (DoD), and acceptance criteria for PLUTO360 evolutions.

Ensure FinOps capabilities, including AI cost control, are consumable via API.

Define KPIs and metrics for efficiency, optimization, adoption, and FinOps maturity, including specific indicators for LLM cost, consumption, and efficiency.

Nice to have

Relevant FinOps certifications (Practitioner)

Cloud certifications (AWS, Azure)

Experience in regulated environments with high compliance requirements.

Knowledge of FinOps practices applied to cloud platforms.

Experience integrating with corporate observability, security, backup, and automation tools.

Experience in designing and evolving FinOps platforms.

What you'll get

  • Flexible working hours and hybrid work (3 days in the office and 2 days remote).
  • A flexible compensation package that includes: meal vouchers, childcare vouchers, medical insurance, life insurance, employee discounts, and more. And if you live in Madrid, a company shuttle bus is available to get you to the office.
  • Access to an attractive pension plan.
  • Summer intensive schedule.
  • You'll be in charge of your own learning journey, with access to thousands of resources to keep advancing your technical expertise. Plus, you'll receive an additional €1,100 per year to further develop your skills.
  • 25 vacation days per year (you would receive the proportional days starting from your start date).
  • Additionally, at Mapfre we do not work on December 24, December 31, or January 5.
  • 28 hours per year for personal matters + 3 recoverable days during Easter week.
  • The opportunity to participate in volunteer projects.
  • Free paddle tennis courts and gym.
  • A great place to work! We're ranked among the 50 best companies to work for in Spain according to Forbes magazine.

Job description

Give your career a fresh start and keep growing professionally at Mapfre Tech! You'll join an international environment where you can innovate by working on global projects focused on the latest technology trends. All of this in a flexible, agile setting surrounded by excellent professionals from around the world... Are you ready?

At Mapfre, we want to bring in a Principal Engineer to lead the evolution of the FinOps domain and take on the strategic focus of AI cost control. Your main responsibility will be to act as the Owner of the FinOps Platform, evolving it to cover not only cloud cost control, but also the new needs for visibility, governance, optimization, and financial control arising from LLM token consumption and artificial intelligence services.

In your day-to-day role, you will be the functional and technical lead for our platform: you will define standards, models, control mechanisms, decision criteria, and a clear roadmap for platform evolution, incorporating capabilities for quota management, cloud cost control, alerts, consumption traceability, visibility by product/team, and optimization of spending associated with AI and LLMs, working cross-functionally with Cloud, Architecture, Data, Security, Finance, and the Engineering Platform.

Where are we?

The position will be based at our offices in Las Tablas, Madrid.

What do we need you to know?

Expert in FinOps practices with solid knowledge of Data

  • Solid knowledge of FinOps practices in enterprise environments:
  • Experience with cloud economics (AWS, Azure, GCP, and OCI).
  • Experience with On-premise and OpenShift environments
  • Design of cost models, optimization, and financial governance.
  • Experience with internal platforms and engineering products.
  • Data modeling and executive reporting.
  • Experience with FinOps allocation models

Infrastructure as Code (IaC):

  • Terraform and GitHub (required). Knowledge of Ansible.
  • Python language, and experience with AWS Step Functions and GitHub Actions will be valued.

Architecture and data models:

  • Experience with data models through ETLs
  • Knowledge of AWS services: GLUE, Lambda, Athena, DynamoDB
  • MongoDB Atlas cost governance and SaaS solutions
  • Knowledge of Oracle and SQL is desirable

Cloud security:

  • Identity & Access Management (Entra ID / Azure AD, RBAC, privileges, delegation).
  • Integration with corporate security services within the Azure ecosystem.

FinOps governance:

  • Definition of standards, policies, and FinOps models.
  • Observability, logging, monitoring, and PLUTO360 alerting.
  • Technical documentation, runbooks, and operational procedures.
  • Platform definition in complex enterprise environments
  • Resilient and regional architecture design, and disaster recovery.
  • Ability to evaluate architecture decisions

What experience is required?

Experience leading FinOps initiatives in complex environments.

Cross-functional work with Technology, Finance, and Business.

Experience with enterprise platforms or internal products.

What soft skills are positive for this role?

Technical leadership and decision-making skills.

Platform vision and orientation toward standardization.

Clear, structured communication focused on internal clients.

Ability to influence multiple stakeholders and align teams.

Quality mindset, continuous improvement, and scalability.

Analytical skills and complex problem-solving.

Autonomy, proactivity, and focus on execution.

Mentoring and coaching skills for technical profiles.

We are diverse, and that makes us unique!

Every recruitment process at MAPFRE is carried out under the principles of EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES and NON-DISCRIMINATION, where the candidate's SKILLS and PROFESSIONAL MERIT are the only criteria considered for the final hiring decision.

We create work environments that value diversity and are free from discrimination based on sex, race, ideology, religion, sexual orientation, age, nationality, disability, or any other personal, physical, or social condition.

You can consult our Diversity and Equal Opportunities policy: politica-de-diversidad-e-igualdad-de-oportunidades.pdf (mapfre.com)

By registering for this job offer, you are informed of and consent to the processing by MAPFRE of the personal data you have voluntarily provided through this platform. If you provide data of third parties other than yourself, you guarantee that you have obtained and have their prior consent for the communication of their data and that you have informed them.

MAPFRE, as data controller, will process your data solely for the purpose of managing your participation in selection processes, for which profiles may be created and automated decisions may result from the processing of your data. In order to manage your participation in various selection processes at companies of the MAPFRE Group, subsidiaries and investees, and Fundación MAPFRE, your data may be communicated to those entities and may be subject to international transfer.

You can find additional information about data protection at MAPFRE at https://www.mapfre.com/corporativo-es/clausulas/RRHHseleccion.pdf, where we explain how to exercise your rights of access, rectification, erasure, restriction, objection, and portability of your personal data.

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