Senior Enterprise Principal Architect

Overview

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, 3

Cloud might just be for you!

At 3

Cloud, 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 3

Cloud’s core values because they know that it will result in amazing experiences and solutions for our clients and each other.

Solution shaping and technical win

• Lead solution shaping and technical win strategy for complex modernization pursuits from discovery through close.
• Run executive discovery to surface desired outcomes, constraints, nonfunctional requirements, and key risks early.
• Translate discovery into clear solution options, architecture narratives, and multi‑year roadmaps with phased transformation plans.
• Define scope boundaries, assumptions, dependencies, and acceptance criteria to reduce ambiguity at close and kickoff.
• Identify architectural, security, and feasibility risks during presales and drive specific mitigations into proposals and commercial terms.

Executive advisory and vision setting

• Serve as a trusted executive technology advisor across strategic accounts.
• Set credible technology vision and transformation strategy that executives can fund, sequence, and govern.
• Frame decisions in business terms by clearly explaining options, tradeoffs, and risk.

Architecture and delivery leadership

• Set technical direction across enterprise modernization spanning applications, cloud platforms, and data and artificial intelligence.
• Make principled tradeoffs across speed versus quality, custom build versus platform, and innovation versus stability.
• Step in when decisions are contested or delivery risk rises, restore clarity, and align teams on a path forward.
• Establish clear decision‑making under uncertainty using lightweight decision frameworks and written decision records.

Firmwide impact, market presence, and partner leadership

• Create and scale reference architectures, solution playbooks, and guardrails that improve pursuit speed and delivery consistency.
• Contribute to consulting offerings and accelerators that are deliverable at scale and aligned with market demand.
• Provide thought leadership through client forums and executive briefings.
• Align with Microsoft field teams and partner stakeholders to strengthen joint solutioning and pursuit execution.
• Mentor senior architects and technical leaders through influence and hands‑on guidance.

Innovation and horizon scanning

• Track emerging technology and industry shifts and translate them into practical client options.
• Turn innovation into clear recommendations, pilot approaches, and phased adoption paths that balance value, risk, and operational readiness.

• Priority pursuits convert into signed engagements with clear scope, credible architecture, and delivery plan.
• Reduced late‑stage deal rework driven by gaps in security, feasibility, or nonfunctional requirements.
• Strong presales to delivery continuity, reflected in fewer kickoff escalations and fewer contested commitments.
• Multi‑year roadmaps and transformation strategies are adopted and actively used by strategic accounts.
• Reusable patterns and playbooks are adopted across multiple teams and clients.
• Strong partner impact through joint pursuits and effective Microsoft field alignment.

• Proven experience leading solution shaping and technical win strategy for complex modernization pursuits, from discovery through close.
• Deep expertise in Microsoft Azure architecture, including enterprise‑scale adoption, governance, security, and integration.
• Experience setting technical direction for enterprise modernization across applications, cloud platforms, and data,…