Senior Director - Data Governance Platforms

3Cloud; United States; On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

3Cloud seeks a Senior Director of Data Governance Platforms to shape strategy, growth, and performance for trusted data foundations across analytics, AI agents, and Microsoft ecosystems. You will lead, advise, and collaborate with executives to expand market presence and delivery capability.

This role emphasizes governance modernization, platform choices, and scalable delivery without hands-on engineering, requiring strong commercial judgment and technical credibility.

Qualifications

• Proven leadership in data governance and enterprise data strategy.
• Experience translating regulatory and business needs into governance programs.
• Ability to lead executive workshops and advisory sessions.

Responsibilities

• Lead 3Cloud's Data Governance Platforms practice strategy and growth.
• Shape market positioning, offerings, and client priorities.
• Develop senior client relationships and enable scalable delivery.
• Translate Frontier and governance directions into a cohesive portfolio.

Skills

Data governance

Executive leadership

Strategic planning

Stakeholder management

Tools

Microsoft Purview

Fabric

OneLake

Copilot Studio

Azure

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 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.

The 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. This is not a hands-on engineering role, but requires the ability to challenge designs, frame tradeoffs, guide technical leaders, and connect platform choices to business value and risk.

Responsibilities

Practice Leadership and Strategy

• Own the practice vision, strategy, business plan, portfolio, operating model, investment roadmap, and performance metrics aligned to 3Cloud, Cognizant, Microsoft, and client priorities.
• Define market positioning, priority buyers, offerings, commercial models, differentiated value proposition, and collaboration boundaries across related data, AI, security, and industry teams.
• Translate Microsoft's Frontier direction into a coherent portfolio for trusted data, governance modernization, Fabric and OneLake adoption, Copilot readiness, AI governance, agent control, and enterprise context.
• Build the leadership bench, reusable IP, partner ecosystem, and delivery capability required to scale the practice profitably.

Go-to-Market and Growth

• Own go-to-market planning and demand creation with account teams, Microsoft, Cognizant, alliances, marketing, and industry leaders.
• Develop compelling plays, offers, campaigns, executive narratives, discovery methods, proof-of-value motions, and repeatable sales and solutioning assets.
• Originate, qualify, and shape strategic opportunities with C-suite and senior data, AI, security, privacy, risk, compliance, and technology stakeholders.
• Lead executive workshops and pursuit strategy, aligning outcomes, scope, solution direction, funding, commercial approach, delivery model, risks, and next steps.

Executive and Technical Advisory

• Serve as a trusted advisor, connecting business strategy, regulatory obligations, risk appetite, operating model, architecture, platform choices, and transformation sequencing.
• Advise on governance across Microsoft Purview, Fabric and OneLake, Microsoft IQ, Foundry, Microsoft 365 and Graph, Copilot Studio, Azure, and heterogeneous enterprise estates.
• Guide unified governance control planes spanning identity, metadata, cataloging, policy, classification, protection, quality, lineage, observability, evaluation, audit, and runtime enforcement.
• Advise on trusted business context through metadata, master/reference data, data quality, glossaries, semantic models, ontologies, knowledge graphs, authoritative metrics, and provenance.
• Guide AI and agent governance across models, copilots, prompts, tools, actions, memory, knowledge sources, identity, permissions, oversight, evaluation, audit, and lifecycle controls.
• Translate complex technical decisions into clear executive choices, including value, cost, risk, speed, dependencies, operating implications, and consequences of inaction.

Practice Enablement, Delivery, and Innovation

• Develop leaders and employees, setting expectations for market contribution, advisory quality, technical credibility, delivery excellence, and reusable IP.
• Own workforce strategy, succession, hiring profiles, certifications, communities of practice, and access to global and partner capabilities.
• Establish practical solution and delivery governance for architecture assurance, commercial discipline, quality gates, escalation, risk visibility, and benefits realization.
• Sponsor strategic engagements, coach leaders, resolve material client or solution risks, and convert lessons learned into i