Job Details

Duration: 6+ Months
Location: 100% Remote

Responsibilities/Requirements:

• This engineer builds the data models that allocate, attribute, and distribute cloud costs to business dimensions, enabling showback and chargeback capabilities.
• 12+ years of data engineering experience
• This is the most complex position from a business logic perspective.
• Building allocation rules, amortization calculations, and understanding how to model financial constructs requires both technical depth and domain experience.
• Ideally someone who has built chargeback/showback systems before.

• Design allocation rule engine supporting tag-based, account-based, and custom mappings
• Build amortization models for upfront payments (1-year, 3-year commitments)
• Implement shared cost distribution models (proportional, even split, fixed coefficient)
• Create untagged cost attribution logic using account ownership and heuristics
• Build budget vs. actual variance models
• Design forecasting input models based on historical trends
• Ensure data models align with accounting periods and matching principles

• Expert SQL and dimensional modeling
• Experience building allocation and chargeback systems
• Understanding of FinOps cost allocation methodologies
• Data modeling tools (dbt, LookML, or similar)
• Understanding of financial accounting concepts (amortization, accruals)