Senior Architect – Data Architecture, Engineering

🕒 July 7

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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

• Lead architecture and technical strategy for Azure modernization and transformation programs that span multiple teams and workstreams. • Translate client goals into scalable designs that align with business priorities, non-functional • requirements, delivery constraints, and program-level outcomes. • Drive architecture across teams so designs follow shared models, standards, and patterns. • Collaborate with architects and engineers in other domains to integrate solutions and maintain a • cohesive end-to-end architecture. • Provide ongoing architectural guidance during implementation, including reviews of key designs and • code, and define patterns and guardrails that teams can reuse. • Apply solid engineering practices in your primary domain—modular design, clear interfaces, • testability, and observability—so solutions remain robust and maintainable. • Use AI-assisted tooling to accelerate design, code, tests, documentation, and analysis, and help • teams adopt effective practices at program scale. • Lead or co-lead discovery and roadmap work for programs or large workstreams, turning inputs into • integrated, testable backlogs with clear non-functional requirements and dependencies. • Use structured problem solving to clarify scope, dependencies, and risks at program scale, and • explain options in terms of value, cost, risk, and time-to-impact. • Communicate architecture strategy and decisions clearly to technical and non-technical audiences, • including executives. • Build trusted relationships with product, engineering, and technology leaders, and help shape • modernization roadmaps in the client’s best interest. • Provide architecture oversight so designs, interfaces, and integration points support predictable • delivery and stable team velocity. • Align multiple teams on shared outcomes, contracts, and integration points, ensuring dependencies • are identified, owned, and tracked through to delivery. • Help define delivery approaches, working agreements, and documentation practices that keep • 3Cloud and client teams aligned across locations and time zones. • Support effective use of Agile at scale by ensuring architecture and backlog structure enable • incremental delivery, clear definitions of done, and data-informed adjustments based on telemetry • and feedback. • Apply a consulting mindset by anticipating client needs, proposing options, and tying solutions to • clear results and adoption, and handle challenge and pushback by explaining trade-offs in simple, • direct language. • Mentor architects, senior engineers, and technical leads, building their design skills, architectural • judgment, and ability to work effectively across systems and teams. • Provide architectural oversight across teams or workstreams, modeling pragmatic decision-making • and showing when to keep solutions simple and when new patterns or technologies are justified. • Support hiring and growth by participating in technical interviews, calibration discussions, and • mentorship, and by helping shape development plans for future architects. • Contribute to business development by identifying opportunities beyond the current assignment • across all our capabilities and assisting the sales director in pursuing them. • Intentionally builds relationship networks within client accounts to deepen partnership and identify • opportunities to provide additional business value. • Partner with sales and account leaders on strategic pursuits by setting the technical vision, • contributing to solution strategy, and participating in client workshops, demos, and roadmap sessions. • Create solution options, high-level designs, and estimates for programs, clearly documenting • assumptions, dependencies, and risks and tying them back to business value and risk reduction. • Build and evolve reusable assets—such as reference architectures, runbooks, workshops, starter • repositories, and templates—that become standard paths for delivery teams. • Champion adoption of modern frameworks, patterns, platform capabilities, automation, and AIassisted tools that improve quality, speed, or reliability in a safe and secure way. • Actively participate in enablement initiatives, share lessons from complex engagements, and help • build a culture of collaboration, continuous improvement, and knowledge sharing.

🎯 Requirements

• 10+ years of experience delivering solutions in a primary technical domain. • 5+ years of experience in solution architecture and leading development or engineering teams, • including multi-team or multi-workstream efforts. • 8+ years of experience in data engineering, including 4+ years of experience architecting data • solutions on Azure. • Deep expertise in Microsoft Azure with experience with Databricks and/or Fabric. • Proven ability to design and implement modern data architectures (data lakes, data warehouses, • lakehouses, data mesh, streaming pipelines). • Proficiency in Python, PySpark, SQL, and data engineering frameworks. • Azure DevOps (including building Stories and tasks, and using pipelines and ARM templates for • publishing code). • Knowledge of infrastructure as code, APIs, security, compliance, and master data management. • Experience optimizing data pipelines, queries, and architectures for performance and cost. • Proven experience leading architecture and delivery for Azure-based solutions such as • modernizations, transformations, or platform build-outs. • Ability to define solution architectures that connect business goals to scalable technical designs and • solid delivery practices. • Experience leading hybrid and remote teams and maintaining alignment, quality, and predictable • delivery across time zones. • Deep knowledge of core concepts, languages, frameworks, and design patterns in your primary • domain, with the ability to apply them at program scale. • Experience using AI-augmented development and integrating AI or machine learning capabilities into • solutions using APIs, frameworks, or cloud-based AI services. • Experience with Agile or Scrum at scale, including backlog management, work slicing, and • dependency handling. • Experience in consulting or professional services. • Familiarity with key Azure services relevant to 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 learning new cloud technologies and turning that learning into practical • improvements for teams. • Ability to stay hands-on with architecture and, when needed, implementation while guiding complex • deliveries across teams.

🏖️ 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