Lead IT Asset Manager (FinOps)
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Job description
We are looking for a Lead IT Asset Manager to manage the HCS Transformation and Governance FinOps team, who are responsible for delivering high-quality analysis of departmental Digital Cloud Services to increase the organisation's ability to understand cloud costs and provide accountability to variable cloud spending.
As a Lead IT Asset Manager, you will play a pivotal role in shaping how we manage and optimise our cloud infrastructure costs, ensuring investment in technology delivers real value. Your leadership will support DWP's mission to deliver secure, efficient and user-centred digital services to millions of people., As Lead IT Asset Manager, you will have overall responsibility for the FinOps IT Asset Management Capability.
The Capability incorporates all legal, regulatory and contractual management of DWP's use of IT software and hardware assets across the DWP Estate; provide expert advice and support strategic decisions to optimise DWP's Technology; supporting technology projects.
You'll define the strategy, set standards, and establish tooling and reporting mechanisms that allow DWP to continuously improve how it manages multi-million pound Cloud spend.
Your remit spans AWS, Azure, and OCI environments, and includes ensuring compliance with departmental financial controls, driving cost transparency and empowering teams to make cost-aware architectural and operational decisions.
You will influence senior stakeholders and mentor engineers across delivery portfolios to improve financial capability, decision-making and outcomes.
The roles are responsibilities include:
- The planning, design, implementation, management, and ownership of DWP Asset Management policies, standards and processes.
- Communicating IT Asset Management policy and process objectives and supporting stakeholders to define the IT software and hardware assets to be controlled and the mechanisms to control them.
- Creation and maintenance of the overarching DWP Asset Management Plan, as well as supporting documentation such as standards, processes and procedures.
- Maintain renewals across Software and Hardware agreements and related contracts for governance and financial purpose.
- Auditing and verification of hardware and software assets, and IT Asset Management data.
- Management Reporting of areas of non-compliance affecting licence agreements or breaches to DWP policy.
- Ensuring consistent execution of the DWP IT Asset Management Process by addressing process and compliance issues.
- Providing meaningful and timely management information on IT Asset Management's performance.
- Supporting reporting of IT Asset Management information to meet stakeholder needs.
- Driving Continuous Service Improvements relating to IT Asset Management Systems to optimise performance and ensure effective alignment with other process areas.
- Defining and own the cloud FinOps engineering strategy across multiple platforms, ensuring alignment with DWP's digital infrastructure and financial goals.
- Establishing cost management standards, policies and reporting tools to support engineering teams in delivering cost-efficient, scalable services.
- Partnering with Commercial, Finance and Delivery leaders to support cloud contract decisions, supplier performance management and spend forecasting.
- Designing and lead the implementation of real-time dashboards and tooling that monitor cloud usage, unit economics, and budget adherence.
- Analysing financial and usage data to identify optimisation opportunities and provide actionable insights to engineering teams and senior leadership.
- Providing subject matter expertise and assurance for cloud cost modelling during business case development and service design.
- Leading or matrix-managing a team of analysts delivering FinOps services, ensuring they have the skills, direction and support to succeed.
- Ensuring risk management and financial compliance processes are integrated into technical operations and infrastructure changes., When giving details in your employment history and personal statement you should highlight your experience in line with essential criteria below:
- Commercial Experience: Managing large-scale cloud contracts or frameworks within a public sector or regulated environment. Leading on commercial strategy and negotiation to ensure cloud services provide value and comply with contractual and regulatory obligations.
- Business Engagement & Stakeholder Management: Building trusted relationships with senior stakeholders across technology, commercial, and finance functions. Driving business-wide alignment on cloud budgets, forecasts, and financial targets for digital delivery.
- Technical Direction & Leadership: Leading the integration of FinOps principles and practices into engineering teams and digital delivery environments. Defining and implementing financial governance mechanisms that support technical decisions and cloud operations.
- Financial Analysis & Reporting: Using analytical tools and techniques to turn complex financial data into clear insights, trends and actionable recommendations. Presenting financial performance data to senior leaders to influence strategic and operational decisions.
- Risk Management & Compliance: Managing financial risk within technical and operational environments and ensuring compliance with government and departmental financial policies.
- FinOps Tools and Technology: Using FinOps platforms and tools (e.g., CloudHealth, Cloudability, native tooling) to manage and optimise spend across cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or OCI., * You will be asked to complete your employment history. Any information that you would customarily share on a CV should therefore be entered onto the application form.
- Personal details that could be used to identify you including your name, contact details and address must be removed for your application to be considered.
- If your employment history/personal statement contains any personal details your application will be withdrawn.
- Artificial Intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application; however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate, and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own), applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action. Please see our candidate guidance for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use. A candidate's guide to artificial intelligence (AI) in recruitment.
Stage 2: Interview
If you're successful at sift stage you will be invited to a video interview via Microsoft Teams. There, you will be assessed against the experiences listed in the essential criteria.
Presentation
By way of context, public sector organisations face unique challenges in managing cloud costs effectively while ensuring compliance, transparency, and value for money. At the same time, success in FinOps depends on fostering collaboration between IT, Finance, and Operations teams to create a culture of shared accountability. You will therefore be asked to do a 10-minute presentation on the following topic:
- Driving Cloud Cost Optimisation and Building a FinOps Culture in a Public Sector Environment.
Your presentation must address the following themes:
- Cloud Cost Optimisation Strategy.
- Building a FinOps culture in a large-scale organisation.
The use of visual aids such as PowerPoint is optional. There will be a further 5 minutes for questions. Further details will be provided to candidates invited to interview., The Civil Service values honesty and integrity and expects all candidates to abide by these principles. Please ensure that all examples provided in your application are taken directly from your own experience and that you describe the examples in your own words. Applications will be screened and if evidence of plagiarism or copying examples/answers from other sources is found, your application will be withdrawn. Internal DWP candidates may also face disciplinary action. Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.
Security
Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check. Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check .
See our vetting charter . People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks., * UK nationals
- nationals of the Republic of Ireland
- nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
- nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
- nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
- individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
- Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service
Requirements
Do you have experience in Presentation skills?, You must meet the security requirements before you can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check.
Applicants for this post must have lived in the UK for 5 years or more during their lifetime for DWP to accept National Security Vetting applications at the Security Check (SC) level. Requests to apply for SC will always be supported where people have lived in the UK for the last 5 years but will be subject to a pre-assessment if they have lived outside the UK during this period.
Benefits & conditions
Alongside your salary of £75,026, Department for Work and Pensions contributes £21,735 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.
We also have a broad benefits package built around your work-life balance which includes:
- Working patterns to support work/life balance such as job sharing, term-time working, flexi-time and compressed hours.
- Generous annual leave - at least 25 days on entry, increasing up to 30 days over time (pro-rata for part time employees), plus 9 days public and privilege leave.
- Support for financial wellbeing, including interest-free season ticket loans for travel, a cycle to work scheme and an employee discount scheme.
- Health and wellbeing support including our Employee Assistance Programme for specialist advice and counselling and the opportunity to join HASSRA a first-class programme of competitions, activities and benefits for its members (subscription payable monthly).
- Family friendly policies including enhanced maternity and shared parental leave pay after 1 year's continuous service.
- Funded learning and development to support progress in your role and career. This includes industry recognised qualifications and accreditations, coaching, mentoring and talent development programmes.
- An inclusive and diverse environment with opportunities to join professional and interpersonal networks including Women's Network, National Race Network, National Disability Network (THRIVE) and many more.
Hybrid Working
This role may be suitable for hybrid working, which is where an employee works part of the week in their DWP office and part of the week from home. This is a voluntary, non-contractual arrangement and your office will be your contractual place of work.
If a hybrid working arrangement is suitable for the role and for you, you will normally be required to spend a minimum of 60% of your contracted working hours from your DWP office.
If you have a disability, caring responsibilities, or other circumstances that may affect your ability to meet the minimum office attendance requirement, please discuss this with us using the contact details in this advert.
Salary Information
Existing Civil Servants who secure a new role on lateral transfer will maintain their current salary.
Existing Civil Servants who gain promotion will either move to the bottom of the grade pay scale or get a 10% increase to their current salary whichever would be the greater. New entrants to the Civil Service will join on band minimum.
