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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 Field CTO will serve as the executive technology voice, technology champion, and trusted executive advisor for our Enterprise Advisory & Solution Architecture practice. This is a senior, client-facing role where you build peer-level relationships with CIOs, CTOs, CDOs, and transformation leaders, shape market narrative through industry presence and analyst engagement, and translate technology direction into business outcomes that executives can fund and govern.\nYou operate across multiple strategic accounts, set technology vision that influences how we advise, sell, and deliver, and use your credibility to create demand, expand strategic relationships, unlock and shape large transformation opportunities, and contribute to growth. You work closely with pursuit, delivery, engineering, practice, and partner teams, but your primary lane is advisory, market presence, and offering strategy, not day-to-day deal mechanics.\nThis is a matrix leadership role. You lead outcomes across pursuit, delivery, and partner teams through influence, executive alignment, and decision ownership, without relying on direct line management authority. You co-own portfolio-level results with practice leadership.\nResponsibilities\nExecutive Advisory and Peer Relationships\nSet credible technology vision and multi-year transformation strategy that executives can fund, sequence, and govern.\nFrame decisions in business terms by explaining options, tradeoffs, enterprise risk, and expected value.\nChampion technical debt elimination and modernization with client technology leaders to unlock value and create demand for transformation.\nConnect technology investment to enterprise value by helping executives define measurable outcomes, adoption requirements, operating model implications, and governance needed to realize the expected business benefit.\nMarket Presence and Thought Leadership\nAct as a named external technology voice across client forums, executive briefings, industry conferences, partner events, and analyst sessions.\nPublish points of view, briefings, and narratives that establish the practice as a market leader.\nEngage with industry analysts, sourcing advisors, consulting firms, and ecosystem partners to shape opportunities and influence market perception.\nBuild market awareness and excitement around our capabilities in ways that unlock large transformation opportunities, expand the scope of existing opportunities, and create new ones.\nPartner Ecosystem Leadership\nCultivate senior relationships with Microsoft field teams, ISVs, platform partners, and the broader technology ecosystem to identify and shape joint opportunities.\nDrive partner-influenced pipeline and co-sell success through joint solutioning, executive relationships, and coordinated pursuit execution.\nStay current on partner roadmaps and platform direction and translate that into client options and offering decisions.\nConnect 3Cloud and Microsoft capabilities with the broader technology ecosystem, industry expertise, and partner landscape to shape differentiated client solutions and opportunities.\nPosition Microsoft technologies credibly within heterogeneous enterprise environments, understanding how they integrate and coexist with other cloud, data, AI, SaaS, and enterprise platforms.\nLeadership\nSet consistent technical direction and quality standards, build capability through coaching and communities of practice, and represent the practice in executive and cross-practice planning.\nModel the 3Cloud Way to Lead through personal, organizational, and business leadership, building trust across organizational boundaries, developing people, and operating with a strategic and enterprise mindset.\nServe as a senior technology leadership interface across advisory, pursuit, engineering, and delivery, ensuring executive technology strategy remains grounded in what can be successfully engineered, operated, and scaled.\nSolution and Offering Strategy\nShape the portfolio across Applications, Cloud Platforms, and Data & AI so it is technically sound, deliverable at scale, and aligned with market demand.\nSponsor reference architectures, solution playbooks, accelerators, and guardrails that improve win rate and delivery consistency across the firm.\nSet technical direction on principled tradeoffs across speed versus quality, custom build versus platform, and innovation versus stability at a portfolio level.\nConnect lessons from strategic client engagements, Microsoft, and the broader technology ecosystem back into offering strategy and capability development.\nPursuit Influence and Technical Win\nChampion priority pursuits through executive credibility, solution strategy, and competitive positioning grounded in delivery reality.\nEngage early on the highest-stakes opportunities to surface outcomes, constraints, and enterprise risks and to shape the opportunity before it is fully formed.\nChampion technology choices and tradeoffs with clients as they evaluate recommended solutions and lead solution defense alongside pursuit and delivery teams.\nCreate executive-level demand and help expand individual technology initiatives into broader transformation opportunities where client outcomes support it.\nStep in when stakes are high, decisions are contested, or executive alignment is at risk and restore clarity on the path forward.\nInnovation and Horizon Scanning\nTrack emerging technology and industry shifts through Microsoft, partner roadmaps, and direct ecosystem dialogue, and evaluate them based on enterprise applicability and business value rather than technology novelty alone.\nTranslate innovation into clear client recommendations, pilot approaches, and phased adoption paths that balance value, risk, and operational readiness.\nMaintain executive-level fluency in emerging AI capabilities, including generative AI, agentic systems, AI-enabled engineering, governance, security, and responsible enterprise adoption.\nEducate sales, pursuit, and delivery teams on key components, trends, and capabilities so they can recognize and act on opportunities.\nRequirements\nProven experience as a Field CTO, Principal CTO, Chief Architect, Distinguished Architect, or equivalent external-facing technology leader for an enterprise modernization, cloud, AI, or technology transformation practice.\nExecutive-level technology leadership experience advising and/or directly leading complex enterprise technology organizations, including significant C-suite interaction and a track record of building peer-level relationships with CIOs, CTOs, CDOs, and transformation leaders at Fortune 500 or comparable enterprises.\nDemonstrated industry voice through keynotes, published points of view, briefings, podcasts, analyst engagement, or other recognized external forums.\nDeep expertise in Microsoft Azure architecture, including enterprise-scale adoption, governance, security, integration, and modernization.\nExperience setting technology direction across Applications, Cloud Platforms, and Data & AI, including operating model and governance implications.\nExecutive-level understanding of enterprise AI strategy and the implications of generative AI, agentic systems, data foundations, governance, security, and responsible adoption.\nAbility to credibly advise executives on integrating Microsoft technologies with non-Microsoft cloud, data, AI, SaaS, and enterprise platforms.\nStrong executive communication skills with the ability to translate technology decisions into business impact, investment choices, constraints, and risk.\nStrong business and financial acumen, with the ability to connect technology strategy to investment, commercial outcomes, delivery economics, and measurable enterprise value.\nExperience influencing large pursuits through credibility and solution strategy rather than pursuit mechanics.\nDemonstrated ability to shape offerings, accelerators, platforms, or reusable intellectual property that improved pipeline, win rate, market differentiation, or delivery consistency.\nEstablished senior relationships with hyperscaler and platform partners and the ability to drive joint solutioning and co-sell.\nExperience leading through matrix influence across account, engineering, security, delivery, practice, and partner stakeholders.\nDemonstrated experience developing, coaching, and mentoring senior architects or technology leaders.\nWillingness to travel up to 25 percent as needed.\nMaintain, or be willing to obtain and maintain, relevant professional certifications.\nPreferred Qualifications\nExperience with hybrid environments and other cloud platforms, such as AWS and Google Cloud.\nPrior CTO, CIO, Chief Architect, Distinguished Architect, VP of Engineering, or equivalent experience at an enterprise, software vendor, consulting organization, or hyperscaler.\nExperience presenting in executive forums, steering committees, board-level settings, analyst briefings, or named industry events.\nExperience operating within complex, highly regulated, or distributed enterprise environments.\nExperience working across global or 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The Field CTO brings deep Microsoft ecosystem expertise, industry perspective, executive advisory, and enterprise technology strategy, and collaborates with technology leaders across AI, industry, engineering, and the partner ecosystem.\nDon’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.\nAt this time, we cannot sponsor applicants for work visas.\nThis Job Posting will expire on Monday, October 19th, 2026.\nDon’t meet every single requirement? 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