Senior Architect - Data Governance Platforms

Are you looking for a role that motivates and challenges you? 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!

At 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.

The Senior Architect in Delivery leads architecture and technical direction for multi-team Azure programs across applications, platforms, and data. You connect client goals to scalable designs, guide delivery across teams, and shape modernization work so it delivers measurable results. At this level, you influence architecture beyond a single project. You set direction across engagements, work with business and technology leaders, raise the bar on delivery quality, and promote reusable patterns. You mentor architects and senior engineers, support strategic pursuits, and turn working solutions into repeatable delivery models.

Responsibilities:

 Solution Architecture and Technical Leadership

 • Profisee (MDM) to include SaaS and PaaS configurations, matching and survivorship, hierarchies, workflows, user interfaces, and data integrations (inbound and outbound).

 • Microsoft Purview to include data map and scanning, Unified Catalog, glossary development, data quality, data lineage, classification, and Access and Ownership models

. • Databricks Unity Catalog to include metastores design and rollout, workspaces across Dev, Test, and Prod, migration from Hive Metastore, classification and tagging and lineage

. • Technical leader able to understand integration strategy and solve technical challenges associated with integration of multiple tools in client ecosystem (i.e. Fabric + Purview, Databricks Unity Catalog + Purview, Profisee integrations, etc.)

 • Strong business acumen and communication skills to ensure client business goals are aligned properly with technical scope and delivery. • Design enterprise governance operating models covering: • Data owners, stewards, custodians, producers, and consumers

. • Domain-based and product-aligned governance structures.

 • Lead architecture and technical strategy for Azure modernization and transformation programs that span multiple teams and workstreams.

 • 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.

. • 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. Delivery and Consulting Excellence

 • 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.

 • 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.

 • 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 AI assisted 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:

 • 8+ years of experience delivering data governance related solutions

 • Self-service analytics.Advanced analytics and AI. • Domain-oriented and data product operating models.

 • Advise on governance implications of various modern data platform patterns.

 • Work with technical leadership to set technical standards and design patterns for at least 2 of the following or equivalent tools:

 • Microsoft Purview (catalog structure, lineage patterns, classification, policies)

. • Profisee (domain modeling, survivorship, stewardship workflows).

. • Databricks lakehouse architectures.

. • Experience designing and integrating quality, automation, and observability practices at scale, including automated testing strategies and embedding quality checks into delivery workflows. 

 

Don’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.

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