Director - Software Engineering

3Cloud, LLC; United States; Hybrid; USD 168,400 - 210,500; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work location

401(k) with match

PTO and holidays

Medical and dental plans

Vision plan

Life and disability insurance

Parental leave

Tech & home office allowance

Bonus eligibility

Employee Assistance Program

Job summary

3Cloud seeks a Director of Software Engineering to shape technical direction and drive delivery excellence across the practice. You will lead managers, tech leads, and architects to ensure healthy teams and high-value client outcomes.

This hybrid role emphasizes Azure-based modernization, architectural governance, and coaching engineers to deliver secure, scalable solutions while growing the practice and reusable assets.

Qualifications

• 14+ years of experience in application development and/or software engineering.
• 5+ years of experience in application architecture and leading development teams.
• Experience leading hybrid and distributed teams in a consulting or professional services environment.
• Strong background in modern software engineering and architecture on Azure, with familiarity of PaaS, serverless, and DevOps practices.
• Proven ability to act as a trusted advisor to senior client stakeholders (CTO, VP Eng, Product leaders).
• Experience shaping practice-wide standards, assets, or offerings to improve repeatability and value.
• Demonstrated strength in people leadership, coaching managers and senior technical leaders.

Responsibilities

• Provide architectural oversight for key engagements and ensure decisions align with practice direction and security requirements.
• Establish and evolve reference architectures, engineering standards, and evaluation frameworks for Azure-native development.
• Lead training and creation of reusable assets to close capability gaps in engineering and architecture.
• Drive scalable, secure, and high-quality delivery across multiple teams and programs.
• Coach and mentor managers, tech leads, and architects to build healthy, high-performing teams.

Skills

Architecture leadership

Cloud architecture

Azure

Hybrid team leadership

Client advisory

Consulting experience

Strategic planning

Communication skills

Multi-team coordination

DevOps familiarity

Tools

Azure

AWS

GCP

CI/CD tooling

Job description

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.

Director – Software Engineering

The Director - Software Engineering is a leader responsible for shaping the technical and delivery direction of 3Cloud's Software Engineering practice while ensuring delivery excellence, team development, and organizational maturity. This hybrid role blends strategic technical influence, practice leadership, and manager-of-managers people leadership, with selective executive engagement when deeper engineering and architecture credibility is needed.

The Director ensures that teams are healthy, delivery is strong, individuals are growing, and the practice builds reusable assets, consistent standards, and modern cloud-native capabilities on Azure. You lead your organization in achieving client and financial success by ensuring consistent delivery of high-value billable work, driving utilization and margin health, and holding leaders accountable for delivery quality and financial integrity.

Responsibilities
Solution Architecture & Technical Leadership

• Contribute to the shaping and support of the technical vision for Software Engineering across the practice, in partnership with Principal Architects and other senior technical leaders.
• Establish and evolve reference architectures, engineering standards, and evaluation frameworks for modern application development on Azure (e.g., API-first, microservices, event-driven, cloud-native patterns).
• Provide high-level architectural oversight on key engagements, ensuring technical decisions align with practice direction, security and compliance expectations, and long-term maintainability.
• Identify gaps in engineering and architecture capability (e.g., performance, reliability, observability, DevOps, AI-assisted development) and lead the creation of training, reusable assets, and accelerators to close them.
• Champion the thoughtful adoption of modern engineering approaches, tools, and patterns (including AI-assisted development) that improve quality, speed, and reliability while remaining responsible and secure.

Delivery & Consulting Excellence

• Provide oversight for key client engagements to ensure quality, alignment to business objectives, and clear connection between our work and client outcomes.
• Support delivery teams through escalation guidance, architectural coaching, and strategic clarity when projects or relationships become complex or high-risk.
• Partner with Engagement Managers, Architects, and client stakeholders to ensure predictable, high-quality outcomes on large programs and critical workstreams.
• Participate in select executive-level conversations to validate technical direction, shape roadmaps, and resolve risks where Director-level presence improves alignment and confidence.
• Help clients mature their engineering and delivery practices (e.g., standards, governance, DevOps, Agile ways of working) so improvements persist beyond a single project.
• Set expectations and guardrails for delivery quality, engineering practices, and ways of working across the Software Engineering practice.
• Monitor engagement performance, risk, and client satisfaction across your portfolio; intervene proactively when trends or signals suggest delivery or relationship risk.
• Ensure consistency and quality across teams without personally owning program-level roadmaps, instead empowering and coaching managers, tech leads, and architects.
• Partner with Engagement Managers and Practice Operations to manage utilization, margin, and staffing mix in a way that supports both financial goals and sustainable team health.
• Promote operational readiness and supportability across engagements, including appropriate use of CI/CD, testing strategies, observability, and incident response practices.
• Develop and grow managers, Principal Architects, and senior engineers through regular coaching, clear expectations, and constructive feedback.
• Build connected, inclusive, high-performing teams with a culture of trust, collaboration, and accountability, modeling the behaviors you expect from leaders.
• Monitor team health, morale, and workload balance across multiple teams, addressing engagement or performance concerns proactively in partnership with People Team and Practice leadership.
• Oversee staffing and resource alignment for your area, balancing utilization targets with growth opportunities, development goals, and succession planning.
• Define interview standards and mentorship strategies for Software Engineering, training others to apply them consistently and improving hiring outcomes and talent growth at scale.
• Drive development of practice-wide training, reusable assets, tools, templates, and accelerators that improve delivery quality, speed, and consistency across Software Engineering engagements.
• Collaborate with Directors, Principal Architects, and Practice Leaders across App Innovation, Data & AI, and Advisory to ensure our solutions and offerings are cohesive and aligned to 3Cloud's broader strategy.
• Guide internal knowledge-sharing communities, brown bags, and upskilling efforts so engineers and architects can quickly adopt new patterns, tools, and approaches.
• Enable the GTM team by collaboratively leading the creation of Software Engineering offerings, estimation playbooks, and proposal templates that match market needs and improve proposal quality, win rate, and margin confidence.
• Support the GTM team as Subject Matter Expert and/or pursuit lead for Software Engineering solution pursuits, including complex modernization and greenfield application initiatives.
• Contribute to practice evolution by identifying capability gaps, talent needs, and strategic opportunities (e.g., new solution areas, partnerships, or accelerators).
• Influence multi-million-dollar annual sales and delivery outcomes for a portfolio of Software Engineering work, ensuring both client value and healthy business performance.

Requirements

• 14+ years of experience in application development and/or software engineering, with significant hands-on experience delivering modern cloud-native solutions.
• 5+ years of experience in application architecture and leading development teams.
• Expertise with a major cloud platform (Azure strongly preferred; AWS or GCP acceptable), including designing, deploying, and operating production workloads.
• Deep experience leading hybrid and distributed teams effectively, maintaining alignment, quality, and predictable delivery across time zones.
• Experience working in a consulting or professional services environment.
• Demonstrated success leading large, complex client engagements or programs, including responsibility for delivery quality, client satisfaction, and financial performance.
• Strong background in modern software engineering and architecture practices on Azure (or a major cloud platform), including familiarity with PaaS, serverless, integration patterns, and DevOps practices.
• Proven ability to act as a trusted advisor to senior client stakeholders (e.g., CTO, VP Engineering, Product leaders), influencing priorities and guiding strategic technical decisions.
• Experience shaping and implementing practice-wide standards, assets, or offerings that improve repeatability, quality, and time-to-value.
• Demonstrated strength in people leadership, including coaching managers and senior technical leaders, building healthy teams, and addressing performance and engagement issues constructively.
• Strong business acumen with experience partnering on utilization, margin, staffing, and sales pursuits.
• Excellent communication and storytelling skills, with the ability to explain complex technical and delivery topics clearly to executive and non-technical audiences.
• Demonstrated ability to lead system-level architecture, make high-impact technical decisions, and balance competing concerns (value, cost, risk, speed) in partnership with business and product stakeholders.
• Experience leading or influencing multi-team programs, including dependency management, integration planning, and architecture governance.
• Desire for continuous learning and adoption of new technologies in the cloud space.

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.

At this time, we cannot sponsor applicants for work visas.

This Job Posting will expire on Monday, August 17th , 2026.

3Cloud Total Rewards Highlights Include:

• 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 CareFSA
• $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

3Cloud offers competitive compensation. In addition to base pay employees are eligible to receive an annual discretionary/utilization bonus. If you are hired at 3Cloud your final base salary is based on factors such as skills, education, experience and/or geographic location.Please keep in mind that the range mentioned above includes the full base salary range for the role.It is not typical for offers to be made at or near the top of the range.

Base Salary Range

$168,400 - $210,500 USD

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.

At this time, we cannot sponsor applicants for work visas.