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# Product Owner Principal

- **Company:** The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation
- **Location:** Coppell, TX, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Release Management, Power BI, Cloud Platform System, Multi-Cloud, Vmware
- **Published:** October 31, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.adzuna.com/details/5846712302

## About the Role

* Minimum of 10 years of related experience
 * Bachelor's degree preferred or equivalent experience

Talents Needed for Success:

 * Strong ownership mindset with the ability to drive outcomes end to end across multiple stakeholders and competing priorities.
 * Analytical and detail-oriented, able to translate complex cost and usage data into clear insights and actionable recommendations.
 * Excellent communication and influencing skills, comfortable engaging both senior leaders and technical experts.
 * Collaborative partner who builds trust across platform, finance, governance, and audit teams.
 * Adaptable and outcome-focused, able to operate effectively in an evolving multi-cloud environment.
 * Product ownership or product management experience, including backlog management and stakeholder-driven prioritization.
 * Working knowledge of AWS and Azure, including how usage and pricing drivers translate into cost and optimization opportunities.
 * Demonstrated FinOps experience, with the ability to drive optimization outcomes and communicate cost trade-offs clearly.
 * Experience presenting to senior leaders and adapting communication to technical and non-technical audiences.
 * Strong troubleshooting skills across data, integration, and platform configuration issues.
 * FinOps certification (e.g., FinOps Certified Practitioner or FinOps Certified Professional).
 * Experience with Cloudaware or similar platforms (e.g., Apptio Cloudability, VMware CloudHealth, or native cloud cost tools).
 * Familiarity with multi-cloud tagging strategies, allocation models, and optimization levers such as AWS Savings Plans and Reserved Instances and Azure Reservations and Savings Plans.
 * Experience supporting audit, risk, or compliance evidence needs for cloud environments.
 * Experience with Power BI or similar tools for executive reporting.

## Description

* Drive Platform FinOps activities across the AWS and Azure estate, including cost visibility, allocation, optimization, and forecasting, in support of the broader FinOps strategy.
 * Provide FinOps expertise and contribute to governance standards, KPIs, and decision forums that align platform, finance, and governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) partners on shared cost outcomes.
 * Lead optimization execution end to end, identifying savings opportunities and driving them to documented results.
 * Own the Cloudaware roadmap, backlog, and feature prioritization aligned to cost management and evidence needs.
 * Manage Cloudaware lifecycle activities, including configuration standards, upgrades, release planning, access, and adoption.
 * Partner with governance, risk, and audit stakeholders to support evidence needs and reduce cycle time for control reviews.
 * Deliver executive-ready cost narratives and leadership materials, including dashboards, presentations, and updates.
 * Troubleshoot product and data issues end to end, coordinating resolution across internal teams and vendor channels.
 * May include people management depending on organizational need, though it is not required.