Senior Director - Data Platforms & Architecture

About the role

3Cloud seeks a Senior Director to lead practice area performance, drive client success, and coach delivery teams. This role offers an opportunity to work on tough problems collaboratively, provide candid feedback, and contribute to collective growth while living core values that result in amazing client solutions.

Responsibilities

• Practice area financial performance (Utilization, Margin, Investments)
• Key project client success focus and oversight through team and personal executive sponsorship engagement
• Coaching delivery teams in key projects and regularly sharing written feedback with managers
• Partnering with People Excellence to manage the capacity and capability of the team
• Ensuring the team has clear guidelines and resources for learning capabilities important to the practice area
• DRR & SRR review and approvals with the support of principal architects
• Supporting and optimizing project staffing to ensure the optimum client experience
• Driving technical excellence function within the practice area, supporting architecture and other reviews on projects via the principal architects and others in their team
• Ensuring rapid resolution of technical escalations with a focus on client experience (with the support of direct reports) and integrating lessons learned back into approaches and employee feedback
• Drive special client experiences through briefings, expert sessions, and other ways to engage outside of billable work
• Partner with the Solution Architecture (SA) team to create Service Delivery Frameworks to align technology and delivery strategy with solution positioning in scoping and increase consistency in delivery experience
• Create and manage practice technology strategy, client journey, and delivery patterns for solution areas within the practice
• Client success evangelism and ensuring celebration of success and influence on clients
• Support IP roadmap, capture, and integration to Solution Engineering Team along with toolkit feature priority for internal development
• Lead periodic quarterly briefings for the team on tech roadmap, lessons learned on projects, delivery pattern recommendations, and other thought leadership topics

Requirements

• 8-10+ years of relevant technology business leadership experience within a consultancy
• Expertise in modern data engineering preferably Azure in data warehousing, data lakes, and lake house architecture
• Broad experience in multiple competency areas of data and analytics delivery including data governance, data architecture, data integration, data classification, data analysis, data visualization, data quality management, data security and privacy, MDM, data standards, regulatory compliance and enterprise architecture frameworks
• Deep knowledge of industry best practices
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills across multiple audiences, as well as demonstrated ability to manage business stakeholder relationships
• Experience managing data practitioners, including definition of team processes, responsibilities and expectations
• A high level of organization and the ability to prioritize tasks and keep projects on schedule
• Bachelor's degree preferred

Benefits

• 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

Pay

Base Salary Range $183,400—$275,100 USD. In addition to base pay, employees are eligible to receive an annual discretionary/utilization bonus. Final base salary is based on factors such as skills, education, experience and/or geographic location. Offers are not typically made at or near the top of the range.