Senior Architect - Data Architecture & Engineering

3Cloud; United States; Hybrid; USD 136,000 - 205,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work location

401(K) with match

Generous PTO

Medical plan options

Life and disability insurance

Tech/home office allowance

Bonus eligibility

Job summary

3Cloud seeks a Senior Architect in Delivery to lead architecture and technical direction for Azure programs spanning multiple teams. You connect client goals to scalable designs, guide delivery, and shape modernization work to deliver measurable results.

You mentor architects and engineers, support strategic pursuits, and drive repeatable delivery models across engagements.

Qualifications

• 10+ years delivering solutions in a primary technical domain.
• 5+ years leading architecture and multi‑team delivery.
• 8+ years data engineering, incl. Azure data solutions.
• Deep Azure expertise with Databricks and Fabric.
• Strong Python, PySpark, SQL, and data engineering skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture and technical strategy for Azure modernization across multiple teams.
• Translate client goals into scalable designs aligned with business priorities.
• Guide delivery, define reusable patterns, and ensure end‑to‑end quality.
• Mentor architects and engineers, support strategic pursuits, and build reusable assets.
• Communicate strategy to executives and stakeholders with clarity.

Skills

Azure

Data engineering

Python

SQL

Leadership

Tools

Databricks

Fabric

Azure DevOps

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.

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

• Lead architecture and technical strategy for Azure modernization and transformation programs that span multiple teams and workstreams.
• Translate client goals into scalable designs that align with business priorities, non-functional requirements, delivery constraints, and program-level outcomes.
• 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.
• Provide ongoing architectural guidance during implementation, including reviews of key designs and code, and define patterns and guardrails that teams can reuse.
• 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.
• Apply a consulting mindset by anticipating client needs, proposing options, and tying solutions to clear results and adoption, and handle challenge and pushback by explaining trade-offs in simple, direct language.

Mentorship and Team Development:

• 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.
• Support hiring and growth by participating in technical interviews, calibration discussions, and mentorship, and by helping shape development plans for future architects.

Growth and Innovation:

• 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 AIassisted 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:

• 10+ years of experience delivering solutions in a primary technical domain.
• 5+ years of experience in solution architecture and leading development or engineering teams, including multi‑team or multi‑workstream efforts.
• 8+ years of experience in data engineering, including 4+ years of experience architecting data solutions on Azure.
• Deep expertise in Microsoft Azure with experience with Databricks and/or Fabric.
• Proven ability to design and implement modern data architectures (data lakes, data warehouses, lakehouses, data mesh, streaming pipelines).
• Proficiency in Python, PySpark, SQL, and data engineering frameworks.
• Azure DevOps (including building Stories and tasks, and using pipelines and ARM templates for publishing code).
• Knowledge of infrastructure as code, APIs, security, compliance, and master data management.
• Experience optimizing data pipelines, queries, and architectures for performance and cost.
• Proven experience leading architecture and delivery for Azure‑based solutions such as modernizations, transformations, or platform build‑outs.
• Ability to define solution architectures that connect business goals to scalable technical designs and solid delivery practices.
• Experience leading hybrid and remote teams and maintaining alignment, quality, and predictable delivery across time zones.
• Deep knowledge of core concepts, languages, frameworks, and design patterns in your primary domain, with the ability to apply them at program scale.
• Experience using AI-augmented development and integrating AI or machine learning capabilities into solutions using APIs, frameworks, or cloud‑based AI services.
• Experience with Agile or Scrum at scale, including backlog management, work slicing, and dependency handling.
• Experience in consulting or professional services.
• Familiarity with key Azure services relevant to your domain, such as messaging, compute, data, security, networking, and integration.
• Strong analytical and problem‑solving skills, with clear written and verbal communication.
• Demonstrated interest in learning new cloud technologies and turning that learning into practical improvements for teams.
• Ability to stay hands‑on with architecture and, when needed, implementation while guiding complex cloud solutions across teams.

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

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

$136,300—$204,500 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.