Senior Architect - Data Architecture & Engineering

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.

As a Senior Architect, your primary responsibility will be to ensure customer success for 3Cloud. This role is dedicated to customer data strategy and advisory delivery. You will be asked to collaborate with 3Cloud team members to deliver client data strategy engagements incorporating people, process, technology, and data to build a strategic roadmap designed to enable client digital transformation by implementing a strong data management foundation to support tactical technology projects and drive sustainable and scalable business value. You will need to be entrepreneurial, enterprising, and personable, possessing strong leadership qualities, that allow you to play a substantive role in the Data Practice with an ability to scale over time. 

Senior Architects are skilled at identifying, collaborating, and designing technical solutions for the lifecycle of data – from applications, to reporting, to analytics, to long term storage and retrieval, using Azure technologies and supporting the movement of data across gathering, landing, consuming, and analyzing data across the Azure platform, including SQL Server, Azure Data Factory, Synapse, Data Lake, Cosmos DB, Power BI, Databricks and related technologies. The ideal candidate will have experience in customer-facing roles and had success leading technical and economic value discussions with senior customer executives, including C-suite, that drive key decisions and implementation. 

Responsibilities• Design Azure based technical solutions leveraging a broad range of the available toolsets with considerations around functionality and performance.• Act as team lead on projects and direct the technology process as well as manage client relationships and expectations to build trust and creditability.• Implement end-to-end data platform solutions for our clients.• Manage client expectations with regard to scope, cost, and timeline.• Actively support solution architects and sales directors in pre-sales activities to drive additional business for 3Cloud.• Author high quality project documentation and other project artifacts, including written case studies detailing use cases and project specifics• Be an effective technical mentor to more junior level teammates.• Deliver complex projects on-time and within budget, proactively identifying and mitigating gaps and risks.• Be an advocate for the 3Cloud Data methodology, leading by example in following best practices and standards.• Expand your knowledge in multiple tools and technologies.• Foster a problem-solving culture that resolves issues through collaboration and partnerships with other parts of the organization.• Support internal 3Cloud objectives that help advance data services design and techniques.

Requirements• Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree desired in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field or equivalent experience• 8+ years of experience in data engineering, including 4+ years of experience architecting data solutions on Azure• You can apply technical knowledge and insights to create a data modernization roadmap and architect solutions to meet business and IT needs• 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• Demonstrated ability to drive AI strategy and adoption, skilled at balancing AI innovation with responsible AI principles.• Experience optimizing data pipelines, queries, and architectures for performance and cost.• You’re results oriented and have a reputation for getting things done• You have a growth mindset and have a deep desire to continue to improve your skills• You’re comfortable in fast paced environments• You’re confident presenting in front of senior level clients• You have a strong sense of responsibility for a project’s success• You thrive in a team environment• You have strong communication skills

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 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, April 6th, 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 Care FSA
• $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.