Director – Data Platforms, Architecture

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $162.8k - $244.2k / year

⏰ Full Time

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3Cloud

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501 - 1000 employees

💼 Consulting

🏥 Healthcare

🏭 Manufacturing

Consulting • Healthcare • Manufacturing

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

• Lead multiple teams and managers, ensuring each group is healthy, high-performing, and aligned to service line priorities • Lead architecture for large Azure programs spanning applications, platforms, and data • Connect business goals to cloud modernization roadmaps, define architecture frameworks, and guide multi-team execution • Set organization-wide technical direction across practices and orchestrate cross-team discovery • Turn successful technical patterns into reusable models • Promote engineering, automation, and AI-assisted practices • Mentor Senior Architects and Delivery Architects • Maintain team development plans, coach team members, and provide feedback • Oversee staffing and resource alignment across teams • Lead architecture and technical strategy for large Azure programs and portfolios • Define modernization blueprints and reference architectures across applications, platforms, and data • Translate business and product strategy into cloud architecture roadmaps and execution plans • Guide major architecture decisions and resolve high-impact technical trade-offs • Provide architectural oversight through design reviews, forums, and governance • Define and own enterprise data platform strategy centered on Databricks or equivalent lakehouse architectures • Establish reference architectures spanning ingestion, lakehouse, analytics, and AI/ML • Set standards for Databricks lakehouse design, Delta Lake optimization, streaming and batch processing, governance, security, and multi-region deployments • Integrate Databricks with Azure-native services and downstream analytics tools • Lead executive and senior stakeholder conversations on cloud modernization, platform strategy, AI adoption, and program roadmaps • Define discovery and delivery frameworks for predictable, incremental delivery across multiple teams and time zones • Track risks, technical debt, quality trends, and architectural drift • Support opportunity qualification, estimating, pursuits, and solution development • Mentor Senior Architects, Delivery Architects, and senior engineers • Create reference implementations, architecture decision records, playbooks, mentoring guides, and other learning assets • Identify account growth opportunities and drive sales pursuits as Pursuit Lead or Technical Solution Lead • Define reusable architectures, modernization playbooks, landing zone templates, workshops, accelerators, and starter repositories • Champion modern frameworks, cloud platform capabilities, automation, and AI-assisted tools • Contribute to cross-practice initiatives and enablement programs

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Data Engineering, Information Systems, or related field preferred • 12+ years of experience delivering solutions in a primary domain such as application development, cloud platform engineering, DevOps, or data and analytics, including significant work at enterprise scale • 7+ years of experience in solution architecture and leading development or engineering teams, including multi-team or multi-workstream efforts at program scale • 10+ years of experience in data platforms, data engineering, or consulting • Deep architectural expertise with Databricks, including Spark optimization, Delta Lake, and workload design • Strong understanding of Azure-native data services and cloud architecture • Proven experience architecting and implementing solutions using Microsoft technologies • Proven experience leading architecture and delivery for Azure-based modernization, transformation, AI, or platform programs at enterprise scale • Experience defining solution and platform architectures that connect business strategy with scalable technical design, strong delivery practices, and measurable outcomes • Experience leading hybrid and remote teams and working with multiple stakeholders across time zones while maintaining alignment, quality, and predictable delivery • Deep understanding of core concepts, languages, frameworks, and design patterns in a primary domain, with the ability to apply them at system and program scale • Experience designing and integrating quality, automation, and observability practices at scale, including automated testing strategies and embedding quality checks into delivery workflows • Experience using AI-augmented development and integrating AI and machine learning capabilities into solutions • Significant experience working in Agile or Scrum environments at scale, including backlog structuring, dependency 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 relevant to your domain • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with strong presentation, written, and verbal communication skills for technical and business audiences • Commitment to continuous learning in cloud, data, and AI • Ability to foster culture, inclusion, and community participation across the organization • Relevant cloud architecture certifications strongly preferred • Experience with multiple cloud vendors and complementary platforms such as Snowflake, Microsoft Fabric, and Power BI preferred • Experience creating data platform offerings preferred • Relevant certifications such as Databricks Champion, Databricks Professional level, or Azure Solutions Architect Expert preferred • Applicants must be unable to require work visa sponsorship; 3Cloud cannot sponsor applicants for work visas

🏖️ 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 • 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