Director - Data Platforms & Architecture

The posting, as 3Cloud wrote it

Are you looking for a role that motivates and challenges you? Are you ready for an opportunity for growth? Do you want to work on teams where people roll up their sleeves to take on tough problems together, and regularly blow the doors off our clients with their outstanding teamwork? If you answered yes to those questions, 3Cloud might just be for you!

At 3Cloud, we hire people who aren’t afraid to experiment or fail. We hire people who are willing to give direct and candid feedback to their managers, leaders, and team members. We hire people who jump at those opportunities because they care about our collective growth and success. We hire people who challenge and hold each other accountable for living 3Cloud’s core values because they know that it will result in amazing experiences and solutions for our clients and each other.

The Director in Delivery leads multiple teams and managers, ensuring each group is healthy, highperforming, and aligned to service line priorities. They also lead architecture for large Azure programs that span applications, platforms, and data. You connect business goals to cloud modernization roadmaps, define architecture frameworks, and guide multi-team execution.

At this level, you act as an organization-wide technical leader. You set technical direction across practices, orchestrate cross-team discovery, keep designs aligned across multiple teams, and turn successful patterns into reusable models. You promote strong engineering, automation, and AI-assisted practices, mentor Senior Architects and Delivery Architects, and help build an inclusive, continuously improving engineering culture while supporting clear investment and modernization decisions for 3Cloud and our clients.

Responsibilities

People Leadership Expectations

• Maintain a clear view of each team member's delivery commitments, growth plans, and internal contributions.
• Develop and grow team members through regular coaching, clear expectations, and constructive feedback. Build a culture of trust, inclusion, and collaboration.
• Monitor team health, morale, and workload balance, acting early to address engagement or performance concerns in partnership with practice leadership.
• Maintain regular one-to-one connections with each team member, provide clear feedback, and help them remove blockers related to client work, pursuits, or internal initiatives.
• Oversee staffing and resource alignment across teams, balancing utilization, development goals, client needs, and sustainable workloads.
• Communicate practice priorities and organizational objectives clearly, ensuring teams understand how their work contributes to broader organizational goals.
• Define interview standards and mentorship strategies, training others to apply them consistently and improving hiring outcomes and talent growth at scale.
• Create and maintain development plans for team members, including stretch assignments, shadowing, certifications, and opportunities for external visib

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pendency management, integration planning, and release management.

• Proven success in consulting or professional services, including client-facing leadership and executive engagement.
• Familiarity with key Azure services used in modern solutions that are relevant to your domain (for example, messaging, compute, data, security, networking, management, and integration services).
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with strong presentation, written, and verbal communication skills for both technical and business audiences.
• Commitment to continuous learning in cloud, data, and AI, with the ability to turn that learning into practical improvements for teams and clients.
• Ability to foster culture, inclusion, and community participation across the organization in ways that support rapid cross-team collaboration.
• Relevant cloud architecture certifications (for example, Azure-focused architect certifications or

comparable role-based certifications) are strongly preferred.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with multiple cloud vendors and complementary platforms such as Snowflake, Microsoft Fabric, and Power BI.
• Experience creating data platform offerings.
• Relevant certifications (Databricks Champion, Databricks Professional level, Azure Solutions Architect Expert.

Don’t meet every single requirement? At 3Cloud we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. At this time, we cannot sponsor applicants for work visas
Don’t meet every single requirement? At 3Cloud we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway.

At this time, we cannot sponsor applicants for work visas.