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 Principal 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.

Principal 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, Databricks, Cosmos DB, Power BI, 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

• Lead and demonstrate emerging technologies and concepts to teams
• Lead the delivery of a broad range of data engagements
• Manage project delivery teams to ensure quality and client satisfaction
• Lead effective requirements gathering and/or design thinking workshops to identify key information required to define client current state, business objectives and future state recommendations
• Lead design of the modern data platform architecture based on requirements
• Lead/Mentor the team for implementation for the client engagement
• Conduct detailed assessments, analyses, and interviews to understand and explain client problems and utilize standard consulting engagement practices such as facilitation, interviewing, gap analysis, etc., to gain the critical insight required to develop the elements of a comprehensive data strategy
• Identify, develop, and document issues, perform analysis, draw conclusions, and formulate strategic recommendations
• Create strategy, assessments, vision, roadmaps, and business case deliverables
• Actively develop client relationships at all levels
• Demonstrate thought leadership regarding the 3Cloud Data Practice and actively recommend areas of possible improvement based on client delivery experience.
• Monitor technology trends, especially related to data management, to facilitate client discovery conversations and influence 3Cloud offerings, capabilities, and ISV partnerships
• Leverage advanced database systems including data warehouses, data marts, and models needed for business, financial and operational analysis and/or reporting with Azure technologies.
• Design and help develop high performing, reliable and scalable solutions
• Clearly communicate technical details to business and management personnel
• Author, oversee and gain approval of design documents for projects assigned
• Work independently or lead a team to design and develop solutions
• Provide meaningful feedback and coaching of other team members to successfully overcome technological challenges

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree desired in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field   Minimum of 5 years of experience with database design and Architecture, at least 2 years with Azure technologies, and previous Consulting experience with enterprise clients. 
• Expert knowledge of Data Management, Business Intelligence and Analytics concepts including:
  • Data Movement (ETL/ELT)
  • Data Warehousing (Designing and Implementing, Azure SQL, Synapse)
  • Azure Storage Technologies (Data Lake, Blob Storage)
  • Data Governance (including Data Quality and Profiling, Master Data Management, and Metadata Management)
  • Business Intelligence, including Reporting and Visualizations (Key Performance Indicators (KPI), and Scorecards)
  • Predictive, Prescription, and Descriptive Analytics
• Expert knowledge of Microsoft Azure technologies:
  • SQL Server on premises plus cloud supported versions)
  • Azure Data Factory (including ARM templates) 
  • Azure Data bricks 
  • Azure Synapse, Cosmos DB
  • Azure Data Lake/Azure Blob Storage
  • Power BI for reporting and analytics 
  • Azure DevOps (including building Stories and tasks, and using development pipelines and ARM templates for publishing code)
  • Microsoft Fabric 
• 10+ years of data and analytics experience
• Extensive knowledge of business process design and optimization, especially related to data and technology.
• Experience with Financial Valuation for Data and Analytics
• Ability to run workshops with business stakeholders leveraging methodologies such as Design Thinking.
• Experience with 2 or more Data Management areas:
  • Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence
  • Data Science and ML, Master Data Management, Data Governance, Data Quality Management 
• Experience designing Data Management Operating Models
• Experience working with frameworks such as DMM, DAMA, and TOGAF
• Aptitude for critical and analytical thinking as well as the capacity to accept out-of-the box solutions.
• Strong presentation, written and verbal communication, and facilitation skills. Technical writing skills are preferred, but not required.
• Product Management knowledge
• Self-starter with the ability to work independently or as part of a project team.
• Eagerness to contribute in a team-oriented environment
• Desire to work in an information systems environment
• Excellent communication (written and oral) and interpersonal skills for both technical and non-technical teams
• Passionate about learning new technologies
• Analytical approach to problem-solving; ability to use technology to solve business problems
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment

Additional Preferred Experience:

• Analytics and Data Science tools, technologies, and techniques (R, Python, algorithms, Azure ML Studio/Services)
• Custom Visualizations in Microsoft Power BI using D3 and jQuery
• Azure Infrastructure architecture and design
• Knowledge and experience using Azure DevOps for source control, project deployment and project management Certifications are a plus 

This Job Posting will expire on Monday, November 25th, 2024.

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

$149,200 - $238,700 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.

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