Senior Architect - Data Governance Platforms

3Cloud

About The Position

The Senior Architect in Delivery leads architecture and technical direction for multi-team Azure programs across applications, platforms, and data. The role connects client goals to scalable designs, guides delivery across teams, and shapes modernization work to deliver measurable results. The architect influences architecture beyond a single project, sets direction across engagements, works with business and technology leaders, raises delivery quality, and promotes reusable patterns. The role also mentors architects and senior engineers, supports strategic pursuits, and turns working solutions into repeatable delivery models. The position focuses on data governance platforms and enterprise governance operating models, with expertise in technologies such as Profisee, Microsoft Purview, and Databricks Unity Catalog. It involves advising clients on governance approaches, integrating governance tools with broader platforms, leading discovery and roadmap efforts, and guiding implementation across multiple teams and workstreams. The architect also contributes to business development, reusable delivery assets, team enablement, and adoption of modern frameworks and AI-assisted tools.

Requirements

8+ years of experience delivering data governance-related solutions.
Advise on how data governance platforms can enable self-service analytics, advanced analytics and AI, and domain-oriented or data product operating models.
Advise on governance implications of modern data platform patterns.
Work with technical leadership to set technical standards and design patterns for at least two of Microsoft Purview, Profisee, Unity Catalog, or equivalent tools.
Familiarity with Microsoft Fabric, Databricks lakehouse architectures, and BI semantic and consumption layers.
Contribute to understanding enterprise data strategy and identifying next steps for data governance platform architectures.
Develop data governance platform designs across major engagements.
Experience with architecture and delivery for enterprise-scale Azure-based modernization, transformation, AI, or platform programs.
Exposure to solution and platform architectures connecting business strategy with scalable technical design, strong delivery practices, and measurable outcomes.
Experience working with hybrid and remote teams and multiple stakeholders across time zones while maintaining alignment, quality, and predictable delivery.
Understanding of core concepts, languages, frameworks, and design patterns in a primary domain, and ability to apply them at system and program scale.
Experience designing and integrating quality, automation, and observability practices at scale, including automated testing strategies and quality checks embedded in delivery workflows.
Experience using AI-augmented development and integrating AI and machine learning capabilities into solutions, such as through APIs, frameworks, or cloud-based AI services and tools for code, test, and documentation acceleration.
Experience working in Agile or Scrum environments at scale, including backlog structuring, dependency management, integration planning, and release management.
Proven success in consulting or professional services, including client-facing interactions and some executive engagement.
Familiarity with Azure services relevant to the primary domain, such as messaging, compute, data, security, networking, management, and integration services.
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills and strong presentation, written, and verbal communication skills for technical and business audiences.
Commitment to continuous learning in cloud, data, and AI and the ability to apply learning as practical improvements for teams and clients.
Ability to foster culture, inclusion, and community participation in ways that support rapid cross-team collaboration.

Nice To Haves

Relevant cloud architecture certifications, such as Azure-focused architect certifications or comparable role-based certifications.

Responsibilities

Provide thought leadership and technical direction in Profisee MDM, Microsoft Purview, Databricks Unity Catalog, or equivalent data governance platforms.
Lead integration strategy and resolve technical challenges involving multiple tools in a client ecosystem, such as Fabric, Purview, Databricks Unity Catalog, and Profisee.
Design enterprise governance operating models, including roles for data owners, stewards, custodians, producers, and consumers, and domain-based or product-aligned structures.
Lead architecture and technical strategy for Azure modernization and transformation programs spanning multiple teams and workstreams.
Translate client goals into scalable designs aligned with business priorities, non-functional requirements, delivery constraints, and program outcomes.
Drive shared architecture models, standards, and patterns across teams, collaborating with architects and engineers in other domains to maintain cohesive end-to-end architecture.
Provide architectural guidance during implementation, review key designs and code, and define reusable patterns and guardrails.
Apply engineering practices such as modular design, clear interfaces, testability, and observability.
Use AI-assisted tooling to accelerate design, code, tests, documentation, and analysis, and help teams adopt effective practices at program scale.
Lead or co-lead discovery and roadmap work, turning inputs into integrated, testable backlogs with clear non-functional requirements and dependencies.
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 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 for designs, interfaces, and integration points to support predictable delivery and stable team velocity.
Align teams on shared outcomes, contracts, and integration points, ensuring dependencies are identified, owned, and tracked through delivery.
Help define delivery approaches, working agreements, and documentation practices for 3Cloud and client teams working across locations and time zones.
Support Agile at scale by ensuring architecture and backlog structures enable incremental delivery, clear definitions of done, and data-informed adjustments.
Anticipate client needs, propose options, tie solutions to results and adoption, and explain trade-offs clearly when challenged.
Mentor architects, senior engineers, and technical leads in design skills, architectural judgment, and cross-system collaboration.
Provide architectural oversight across teams and workstreams, modeling pragmatic decision-making and appropriate use of patterns and technologies.
Participate in technical interviews, calibration discussions, mentorship, and development planning for future architects.
Identify business development opportunities beyond the current assignment and assist the sales director in pursuing them.
Build relationships within client accounts to deepen partnerships and identify opportunities to provide additional business value.
Partner with sales and account leaders on strategic pursuits by setting technical vision, contributing to solution strategy, and participating in workshops, demos, and roadmap sessions.
Create solution options, high-level designs, and estimates, documenting assumptions, dependencies, and risks and connecting them to business value and risk reduction.
Build and evolve reusable assets such as reference architectures, runbooks, workshops, starter repositories, and templates.
Champion modern frameworks, patterns, platform capabilities, automation, and AI-assisted tools that improve quality, speed, or reliability safely and securely.
Participate in enablement initiatives, share lessons from complex engagements, and support collaboration, continuous improvement, and knowledge sharing.