Job Description

Lead IT Asset Manager (FinOps)
PCD300300

Do you have the vision and expertise to drive cloud cost optimisation and FinOps strategy at scale, ensuring every pound spent delivers real value?
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.

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.
Person specification
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 public cloud platform, or public cloud platform.
Alongside your salary of £90,000, the organisation for Work and Pensions contributes £26,000towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.