Ready for a challenge?
Then Just Eat Takeaway.com might be the place for you. We’re a leading global online food delivery platform, and our vision is to empower everyday convenience.
Whether it’s a Friday-night feast, a post-gym poke bowl, or grabbing some groceries, our tech platform connects tens of millions of customers with hundreds of thousands of restaurant, grocery and convenience partners across the globe.
About this role
We’re looking for a Senior FinOps Team Lead/Technology Manager to join our Cloud Centre of Excellence team here at Just Eat Takeaway (JET). Reporting to the Director of Cloud Platform, you'll be crucial in implementing a global cloud strategy to ensure reliability, efficiency, and governance across cloud environments.
The position requires technical and analytical leadership, the ability to influence across the organisation, and strategic decision-making to align cloud capabilities with company-wide tech goals. You'll drive engineering excellence and collaborate to ensure the cloud platform serves both engineering and business needs.
This role involves navigating complex and evolving environments to deliver technical and organisational transformation. As a new capability, you'll enhance existing cloud features and develop new ones, offering a significant opportunity for personal and professional growth in shaping the company's future technology platform.
Location: Hybrid- 3 days a week from London, Bristol or Amsterdam office & 2 days working from home
Reporting to: Director - Cloud Centre of Excellence
These are some of the key ingredients to the role:
Drive Global Impact: Ensure cloud environments align with company-level Platform objectives and deliver key results in cost optimization, architecture, and governance.
Develop Cloud Configuration Tooling: Create the necessary tooling and automation to achieve Cloud Platform goals at scale, balancing operational excellence, innovation, and velocity.
Support FinOps & Communication: Address the FinOps needs of a global engineering organisation and communicate effectively with stakeholders on project status and roadmap efforts.
Contribute to Global Cloud Strategy: Collaborate with the Infrastructure leadership team to define and execute a long-term technical strategy for cloud practices, ensuring alignment across geographies and business functions.
Promote Modern Architecture: Drive best practices, automation, and tooling to enhance cloud efficiency in a multi-region environment.
Optimise CCoE Teams: Develop and optimise CCoE teams across regions by setting clear priorities and ensuring efficient execution.
Champion Talent & Culture: Own the talent lifecycle, driving hiring, retention, and development, while fostering a psychologically safe, inclusive, and collaborative engineering culture.
Establish Global Standards: Define and drive the adoption of global cloud standards, hold teams accountable for technical strategy, and partner with engineers for continuous innovation.
What will you bring to the table?
Demonstrated background in FinOps with a deep understanding of its principles, methodologies, and best practices
Significant experience in an infrastructure or engineering role, having evolved into a FinOps specialisation. This isn't a finance or purely analytical role; a strong engineering mindset is crucial
Experience in developing and executing a FinOps engineering strategy and plan
Proven ability to work cross-functionally within complex, large-scale environments
Strong track record of building and leveraging internal partnerships to achieve organisational goals.
Direct experience managing and optimizing significant cloud infrastructure budgets
Experience with AWS Cloud Platform (GCP & Azure are desirable)
Knowledge and experience with cloud security and compliance
Extensive experience presenting and communicating complex information effectively to Senior Leadership Teams (SLT)
At JET, this is on the menu:
Our teams forge connections internally and work with some of the best-known brands on the planet, giving us truly international impact in a dynamic environment.
Fun, fast-paced and supportive, the JET culture is about movement, growth and about celebrating every aspect of our JETers. Thanks to them we stay one step ahead of the competition.
Inclusion, Diversity & Belonging
No matter who you are, what you look like, who you love, or where you are from, you can find your place at Just Eat Takeaway.com. We’re committed to creating an inclusive culture, encouraging diversity of people and thinking, in which all employees feel they truly belong and can bring their most colourful selves to work every day.
What else is cooking?
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Are you ready to take your seat? Apply now!
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