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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!\nAt 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.\nThe 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.\nAt 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.\nResponsibilities:\nPeople Leadership Expectations \nMaintain a clear view of each team member's delivery commitments, growth plans, and internal contributions. \nDevelop and grow team members through regular coaching, clear expectations, and constructive feedback. Build a culture of trust, inclusion, and collaboration. \nMonitor team health, morale, and workload balance, acting early to address engagement or performance concerns in partnership with practice leadership. \nMaintain 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. \nOversee staffing and resource alignment across teams, balancing utilization, development goals, client needs, and sustainable workloads. \nCommunicate practice priorities and organizational objectives clearly, ensuring teams understand how their work contributes to broader organizational goals. \nDefine interview standards and mentorship strategies, training others to apply them consistently and improving hiring outcomes and talent growth at scale. \nCreate and maintain development plans for team members, including stretch assignments, shadowing, certifications, and opportunities for external visibility.\nLead or support performance reviews, promotion recommendations, and compensation input for your teams, using consistent standards that reflect both impact and behavior.\nRepresent your teams in leadership forums, communicate expectations and decisions clearly back to the group, and bring forward patterns, risks, and successes that should shape practice strategy.\nSolution Architecture and Technical Leadership\nLead architecture and technical strategy for large Azure programs and portfolios so solutions meet client goals for value, security, scalability, reliability, performance, and cost. \nDefine modernization blueprints and reference architectures across applications, platforms, and data, including system and subsystem designs, patterns, and standards that simplify delivery and operations over time. \nTranslate business and product strategy into cloud architecture roadmaps and execution plans that drive measurable outcomes and adapt based on production feedback and telemetry. \nGuide major architecture decisions across programs, promote shared design standards and reusable models, and resolve high-impact technical trade-offs. \nWork across teams to connect solutions into cohesive end-to-end architectures with clear ownership boundaries and integration contracts. \nProvide architectural oversight during delivery through design reviews, forums, and governance, keeping cross-cutting concerns (security, performance, resilience, availability, compliance, observability, and cost) aligned across teams. \nPromote modular design, clear boundaries, testability, CI/CD, and observability so non-functional requirements are treated as first-class and systems remain reliable and maintainable. \nUse AI tools to accelerate discovery, design, code, tests, documentation, and analysis, and scale successful practices so teams adopt them consistently.\nData Platform Strategy & Architecture Direction:\nDefine and own enterprise data platform strategy centered on Databricks or equivalent lakehouse architectures.\nEstablish reference architectures spanning ingestion, lakehouse, analytics, and AI/ML.\nSet standards and best practices for: \nDatabricks lakehouse design and workload isolation.\nDelta Lake optimization and data lifecycle management.\nStreaming and batch processing patterns.\nUnity Catalog-aligned governance and security models.\nGuide multi-workspace and multi-region Databricks deployments. \nEnsure tight integration between Databricks, Azure-native services, and downstream analytics tools.\nOversee architectural alignment with complementary platforms (e.g., Snowflake, Fabric, Power BI).\nDelivery and Consulting Excellence\nLead or co-lead executive and senior stakeholder conversations on cloud modernization, platform strategy, AI adoption, and program roadmaps. \nUse structured problem solving to clarify scope, dependencies, risks, and trade-offs, and shape delivery plans that balance value, cost, speed, and long-term system health. \nSet discovery strategy so program objectives flow into a clear, traceable backlog tied to architecture and business outcomes. \nExplain complex architecture and modernization strategies in clear language for executives, business leaders, and technical teams, including options, trade-offs, and recommendations. \nBuild trusted relationships with technology and business leaders, influencing priorities and investment decisions in ways that help mature their engineering and architecture practices. \nRun structured decision-making forums (such as architecture reviews or steering committees) that produce clear decisions, documented rationale, and actionable next steps. \nDefine architecture, discovery, and delivery frameworks and working agreements that support predictable, incremental delivery across multiple teams and time zones, including cadences, artifacts, escalation paths, and hybrid delivery guidelines. \nAlign teams on shared outcomes, APIs, integration contracts, and operating models, ensuring crossteam dependencies are identified early, owned, and tracked through to completion. \nSupport effective use of Agile methods at program scale so architecture, backlogs, and release plans support meaningful increments, stable team velocity, low defect escape, clear definitions of done, and course corrections based on telemetry and feedback. \nTrack risks, technical debt, quality trends, and architectural drift across teams, and recommend adjustments that keep programs on track while balancing short-term delivery needs with long-term system health. \nSupport cross-practice opportunity qualification and estimating using playbooks, benchmarks, and templates so the organization focuses on high-fit pursuits and improves proposal quality and confidence in value, risk, and margin.\nMentorship and Team Development\nMentor Senior Architects, Delivery Architects, and senior engineers, helping them grow systems thinking, architectural judgment, cross-team awareness, and their ability to lead multi-team initiatives.\nProvide architectural oversight across programs, modeling pragmatic decision-making, including when to keep solutions simple, when to standardize, when to extend patterns, and when to introduce new technologies. \nHelp shape career paths and development plans for architects by clarifying expectations for operating at program scale and providing concrete examples of what “good” looks like. \nCreate and maintain high-leverage learning assets-such as reference implementations, architecture decision records, playbooks, and mentoring guides-that accelerate onboarding and skill growth. \nSupport hiring, calibration, and talent development by defining interview standards, participating in senior-level interviews and promotion reviews, and training others to apply those standards consistently. \nSet a high bar for executive-ready communication and storytelling, and coach others so their narratives support clear decisions and strengthen client trust. \nHelp build a culture of psychological safety, inclusion, constructive feedback, and continuous improvement within and across teams, and support new ways of working that endure beyond a single project.\nGrowth and Innovation\nGrow the company by identifying opportunities within your accounts across all our capabilities and pursuing them with the support of the account team.\nIntentionally build executive relationships within accounts to expand our partnership and create opportunities to provide strategic value.\nDrive sales opportunities by participating in pursuit teams as either the Pursuit Lead or Technical Solution Lead.\nPartner with sales, account, and practice leaders to shape technical strategy for strategic pursuits, projects and/or programs.\nLead the creation of solution options, program-level architectures, and estimates, clearly documenting assumptions, dependencies, and risks and explaining how proposed approaches drive business value and reduce risk. \nOperate as a senior technical advisor whose guidance shapes multi-track initiatives and supports long-term account growth. \nIdentify follow-on and adjacent opportunities-such as platform extensions, additional modernization waves, AI-enabled capabilities, or data estate modernization-that align with client strategies and 3Cloud’s strengths. \nDefine and evolve reusable assets-such as reference architectures, modernization playbooks, landing zone templates, workshops, accelerators, and starter repositories-that become standard patterns for delivery teams and reduce cycle time and rework while honoring architectural and nonfunctional requirements. \nChampion adoption of modern frameworks, cloud platform capabilities, automation practices, and AIassisted tools in a responsible and secure way, using pilots and experiments with clear success criteria to turn innovation into stable, repeatable practice. \nContribute to internal cross-practice initiatives that share patterns and lessons from large 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