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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 Senior Director - Data Governance Platforms leads 3Cloud’s Data Governance Platforms practice, shaping strategy, growth, market positioning, and performance. This role defines how 3Cloud helps clients create trusted, secure, discoverable, high-quality, and business-ready data foundations for analytics, Microsoft Copilot, and AI agents. \nThe role is accountable for building a differentiated Microsoft-aligned practice, creating demand, shaping strategic pursuits, developing senior client relationships, and enabling delivery at scale. The successful candidate combines commercial judgment, executive presence, and technical credibility across Microsoft Purview, Fabric and OneLake, Microsoft IQ, Foundry, Microsoft 365, Azure, Copilot Studio, and the broader data and AI ecosystem. 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\nGuide unified governance control planes spanning identity, metadata, cataloging, policy, classification, protection, quality, lineage, observability, evaluation, audit, and runtime enforcement. \nAdvise on trusted business context through metadata, master/reference data, data quality, glossaries, semantic models, ontologies, knowledge graphs, authoritative metrics, and provenance. \nGuide AI and agent governance across models, copilots, prompts, tools, actions, memory, knowledge sources, identity, permissions, oversight, evaluation, audit, and lifecycle controls. \nTranslate complex technical decisions into clear executive choices, including value, cost, risk, speed, dependencies, operating implications, and consequences of inaction. \nPractice Enablement, Delivery, and Innovation \nDevelop leaders and employees, setting expectations for market contribution, advisory quality, technical credibility, delivery excellence, and reusable IP. \nOwn workforce strategy, succession, hiring 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