Senior AI FinOps Engineer

Date: 12 Sept 2025

Location: Singapore, Singapore

Company: Singtel Group

Powering the Future with AIDA

To lead the next phase of our AI evolution, we've launched a new business unit AIDA – Artificial Intelligence & Data Analytics – a strategic engine driving our transformation designed to scale our AI ambitions with precision and purpose.This marks a pivotal shift in how we operate, innovate, and serve to embed intelligence into every layer of our business.

At Singtel, this is more than a technology upgrade. It's a strategic transformation that redefines how value is created across the enterprise core— augmenting human capabilities and unlocking entirely new potential. It is a transformation journey by aligning people, platforms, and processes under one cohesive strategy. Our mission is to build AI literacy, and foster a culture where intelligence empowers people.

We welcome you to join us on a transformational journey that's reshaping the telecommunications industry — and redefining what's possible with AI at its core. Grow with us in a workplace that champions innovation, embraces agility, and puts human potential at the heart of everything we do.

Be a Part of Something BIG

• Design and maintain a centralized framework to provide full visibility into Azure AI and GenAI consumption
• Establish governance standards and tagging practices that ensure accurate project-level cost attribution
• Deliver proactive monitoring, dashboards, and executive reporting to forecast budgets, detect anomalies, and identify optimization opportunities
• Champion FinOps best practices across the business unit, ensuring that AI innovation is matched with financial efficiency and business value

Make an Impact by:

• Design and maintain the centralized framework for tracking Azure consumption and GenAI token usage across projects, teams, and applications
• Define and enforce tagging, cost allocation, and governance standards for consistent attribution
• Integrate with Azure Cost Management, billing APIs, and monitoring systems
• Partner ML/LLMOps team to ensure cost observability in training, deployment workflows and token usage
• Build dashboards and alerts to monitor real-time and forecasted costs, including anomaly detection for budget risks
• Deliver executive and project-level reporting jointly with value tracking team, linking cost to usage and business outcomes
• Identify and recommend cost optimization opportunities and facilitate implementation
• Drive adoption of FinOps best practices for AI in SingtelSG
• Handle budgeting, payment and compliance with Singtel internal financial procedures
• Lead AIDA FinOps function and coordinate distribution of work within team

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
• 4 years of experience in cloud administration and/or operations
• 1 year in cloud cost monitoring and optimization
• Strong knowledge in Azure services, especially Microsoft Cost Management, Azure Monitor, Databricks on Azure
• Proficiency with data engineering tools (Python, SQL, PySpark) to process billing and usage telemetry
• Experience integrating with dashboards and BI tools (Power BI, Grafana, etc.)
• Working knowledge of IaC tools (Terraform, Bicep, ARM templates) to enforce tagging and cost guardrails
• Hands-on experience in cloud FinOps, including budgeting, forecasting, cost allocation, and anomaly detection
• Strong grasp of cloud cost optimization strategies (reserved instances, spot instances, right-sizing, workload scheduling)

Are you ready to say hello to BIG Possibilities?

Take the leap with Singtel to unlock new opportunities and accelerate your growth. Apply now and start your empowering career