Enterprise Principal Architect - Infrastructure

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.

The 3Cloud Enterprise Architect is primarily responsible for providing technical delivery and leadership on large, often global Fortune 1000 strategic client engagements.  The Enterprise Architect operates broadly across all 3Cloud practices, including Application Development, DevOps, Infrastructure, Security, and Data & Analytics.  The Enterprise Architect would be well-versed in a wide array of technologies and have a comfort level speaking with customers with key leaders and the executive level.  The Enterprise Architect would look for ways to advance our technical solution offerings, develop training programs for account project team skilling into new technologies and Azure services as required, relationship development (across delivery practice areas, sales, clients, and MSFT counterparts), and cultivating a collaborative and inclusive team culture through our 3Cloud communities.  

People Development 

• Biweekly or monthly syncs with project team Architects from individual practices to align on technical solutions, team collaboration opportunities that help the team advance their skills and competencies. 
• As an SME, provide support to solution architecture presales teams to align presales and delivery expectations around the solution definition and delivery execution (participate in offering committees) 
• Serve as coach in a player-coach model to help support the upskilling of team members 
• Help prescribe certification tracks for consultants and architects 
• Create reusable process and content for large customer engagements 
• Help foster and build relationships between internal team members and those external to our 3Cloud team (including Sales, Client contacts, & MSFT) 
• Help strengthen our technical team's consulting capabilities 

Delivery Support Activities 

• Function as a lead Azure Architect with strong consultative skills on multiple client engagements, including strategic accounts that have strong growth potential 
• Broad deep technical knowledge across Azure and non-Azure technologies inclusive of: Log Analytics (KQL), Application Insights, Azure Site Recovery, Azure Backup, Security Center, Azure Networking (App Gateways, Front Door, Firewall, VWAN), Azure Storage, Azure Automation, Azure Sentinel, App Services, Containers (AKS), Managed Instances, Azure SQL, Azure DNS, Azure Virtual Desktop, Azure Files 
• Help the team reach billable targets by assisting with breaking through project blockers  

• Help facilitate change orders and project extensions with SA Team when in-flight projects require it 
• Help drive alignment where there are technical mesh points between other 3Cloud practice areas by providing technical oversight and driving cross practice solutions that enable our strategic customers  
• Keep apprised of the latest technologies and how they may impact existing 3Cloud offerings 
• Identify and initiate new offering opportunities 
• Develop relationships across multiple customer groups 

• Help lead and guide others on the team towards ‘land & expand’ best practices inclusive of: identification of next up opportunities, escalation of the opportunity to account team, establishing partnerships with account executives and solution architects across all practices 

Business Development Leadership 

• Gain architectural level depth in all 3Cloud offerings in all practice areas t