Architect – Strategy and Governance

🕒 January 23

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3Cloud

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501 - 1000 employees

☁️ SaaS

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

🏢 Enterprise

SaaS • Artificial Intelligence • Enterprise

3Cloud is a leading Azure partner and Microsoft innovator, specializing in generative AI services for enterprise organizations. The company offers expertise in data analytics, AI, DevOps, cloud app development, and cloud infrastructure management, focusing entirely on Microsoft Azure to help businesses transform and optimize their performance. 3Cloud positions itself as a trusted copilot in the AI journey, aiming to enhance business performance through innovative solutions and strategic alignment of AI projects with business objectives. They cater to a range of industries including healthcare, financial services, manufacturing, and retail, providing managed services and ongoing support to enable and scale positive impacts of AI.

📋 Description

• Own end-to-end architecture and scope for your projects, leading teams to design and deliver Azure solutions that meet agreed goals for value, security, scalability, reliability, performance, and cost. • Serve as the technical lead and subject matter expert on your engagements, guiding consultants and engineers so implementation stays aligned with the architecture and standards. • Apply sound engineering practices—clear interfaces, modular design, and testability—to produce reliable, maintainable solutions in your primary domain. • Provide architectural guidance throughout implementation, including design and pull-request reviews, shaping cloud patterns and guardrails and offering practical options to unblock teams. • Use AI tools to accelerate code, tests, documentation, and similar tasks, and share effective practices so they become repeatable gains for teams and clients. • Lead discovery and requirements sessions for your workstreams, clarifying scope, dependencies, and risks, and shaping a prioritized backlog with clear acceptance criteria tied to business outcomes. • Explain complex technical topics in simple, direct language for both technical and non-technical audiences, and consistently connect technical decisions back to client goals. • Build trust with managers and product owners, influencing priorities and roadmaps in ways that support the client’s long-term interests. • Enable teams to deliver with stable velocity and low defect rates by providing clear architecture, interfaces, and automation across build, test, and deployment, and by designing for incremental delivery with a clear Definition of Done. • Align multiple teams on shared outcomes, contracts, and integration points, ensuring dependencies are identified early, owned, and tracked through delivery. • Support effective Agile practices by ensuring the architecture and backlog structure enable incremental delivery, a clear Definition of Done, and data-informed course corrections based on telemetry and feedback.

🎯 Requirements

• 6+ years of experience delivering solutions in a primary domain such as application development, cloud platform engineering, DevOps, or data and analytics. • 3+ years of experience in solution architecture and leading development or engineering teams. • Proven experience leading hybrid and remote teams and maintaining alignment, quality, and predictable delivery across time zones. • Expertise in at least one major public cloud platform, with Azure strongly preferred. • Deep understanding of core concepts, languages, frameworks, and design patterns in your primary domain, with the ability to apply them to build robust, maintainable systems. • Experience using AI-augmented development and integrating AI or machine learning capabilities into solutions through APIs, libraries, or cloud-based AI services. • 7+ years of experience in data governance, data management, or 5+ in large consulting firm. • 2+ years with Azure technologies. • Proven experience delivering governance programs. • Strong understanding of data platform and analytics ecosystems. • Experience with 2 or more Data Management areas: Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence, Data Science and ML, Master Data Management, Data Governance, and Data Quality Management. • Experience working in Agile or Scrum environments, including backlog refinement and iteration planning. • Experience in consulting or professional services is a plus. • Familiarity with key cloud services for your domain, such as messaging, compute, data, security, networking, and integration. • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with clear written and verbal communication. • Demonstrated interest in continuous learning and adoption of new cloud technologies. • Ability to be hands-on with implementation while also designing and communicating complex cloud architectures.

🏖️ Benefits

• Flexible work location with a virtual first approach to work! • 401(K) with match up to 50% of your 6% contributions of eligible pay • Generous PTO providing a minimum of 15 days in addition to 9 paid company holidays and 2 floating personal days • Two medical plan options to allow you the choice to elect what works best for you! • Option for vision and dental coverage • 100% employer paid coverage for life and disability insurance • Paid leave for birth parents and non-birth parents • Option for Healthcare FSA, HSA, and Dependent Care FSA • $67.00 monthly tech and home office allowance • Utilization and/or discretionary bonus eligibility based on role • Employee Assistance Program to help with everyday challenges