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# Principal Architect - Data Platforms & Architecture at 3Cloud

- **Company:** 3Cloud
- **Location:** United States
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-10-22
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-31
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/3cloud/jobs/8901085002?gh_jid=8901085002

## Job description

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
- 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, August 19, 2024.

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.

At this time, we cannot sponsor applicants for work visas.

## About 3Cloud

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: 3Cloud is a 100% Azure-dedicated technology consulting firm that helps enterprises and mid-market organizations architect, build, and optimize their cloud environments on Microsoft Azure.
- **Entity Type**: Private (acquired by Cognizant in November 2025; deal expected to close Q1 2026)
- **Headquarters**: Downers Grove, Illinois (Chicago area), USA
- **Founded**: 2016
- **Founders**: Mike Rocco and Jim Dietrich

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Cloud Consulting & IT Services (Microsoft Azure ecosystem)
- **Target customers**: Enterprise and mid-market organizations across banking & financial services, healthcare, technology, and consumer sectors
- **Mission**: To be the leading Microsoft Azure partner; loved by employees, trusted by clients, and valued by Microsoft and business partners. The company believes a brighter future is created through human brilliance and transformative technology.

## Products & Services
- **Cloud Strategy & Advisory**: Helping clients define their Azure roadmap, including digital modernization, cost optimization, and business transformation.
- **Data & AI Solutions**: Modern data platforms, advanced analytics, AI enablement, and machine learning solutions built on Azure. Recognized as Microsoft’s 2024 Partner of the Year for Data & AI.
- **Application Innovation**: Cloud-native app development, application modernization, and migration to Azure.
- **Cloud Platform & Infrastructure**: Architecture, design, and implementation of Azure cloud environments, including hybrid and multi-cloud strategies.
- **Managed Services**: Ongoing Azure environment management, monitoring, optimization, and support (Azure Expert Managed Services Provider).
- **Quality Engineering**: Testing and quality assurance services for cloud applications.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (acquired by Cognizant in November 2025; financial terms not disclosed)
- **Key Metric**: Total Funding — 3Cloud was a portfolio company of **Gryphon Investors** (private equity). Prior to acquisition, the company reported 20% organic compound annual growth since 2020, with 20%+ growth expected in 2025.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Gryphon Investors (PE backer); Microsoft (strategic partner); Databricks (Elite partner)
- **Growth Signals**: 
  - Acquired by Cognizant (NASDAQ: CTSH) in November 2025 for an undisclosed sum; deal expected to close Q1 2026.
  - Named **2025 Microsoft U.S. Channel Partner of the Year**.
  - Named **2024 Microsoft Americas Partner of the Year for Data & AI**.
  - 1,000+ Azure experts and engineers; 1,500+ Microsoft certifications.
  - 20% organic compound annual growth since 2020.
  - Serves 1 in 10 Fortune 500 companies.

## Competitive Advantages
- **100% Azure Dedicated**: Unlike generalist consultancies, 3Cloud is singularly focused on the Microsoft Azure ecosystem, giving them unmatched depth of expertise.
- **Founder Pedigree**: Founded by former Microsoft executives who managed $1B+ revenue portfolios and have deep relationships within Microsoft’s sales and engineering leadership.
- **Award-Winning Track Record**: Multiple Microsoft Partner of the Year awards (Data & AI, Health & Life Sciences, Migration to Azure, Modernizing Applications, 2025 U.S. Channel Partner of the Year).
- **Scale & Certification**: 1,000+ Azure experts, 1,500+ Microsoft certifications, and 1,600+ Azure engagements.
- **Elite Partner Status**: Also an Elite Databricks partner, adding depth in data and AI.

## Strategic Focus
- **Enterprise AI Readiness**: Helping clients build, deploy, and scale AI solutions on Azure, with a strong emphasis on data platforms and AI-driven operations.
- **Growth Through Acquisition**: The pending acquisition by Cognizant (expected Q1 2026) will combine 3Cloud’s Azure expertise with Cognizant’s global scale, creating one of the largest Microsoft partners with 21,000+ Azure-certified specialists.
- **Continued Azure Specialization**: Remaining 100% focused on the Azure ecosystem, deepening capabilities in data, AI, and app innovation.
- **Expansion of Managed Services**: Growing the managed services practice to support ongoing client operations and optimization.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: 3Cloud emphasizes a "human led, tech driven" philosophy, with core values of Growth, Client Success, and Winning Together. The company is described as passionate, innovative, and committed to building a diverse and inclusive environment.
- **Remote/Hybrid Policy**: 3Cloud embraces a **remote-first** approach, hiring based on skill set rather than geographical location. Employees have the flexibility to work from home, with physical offices in Downers Grove, IL (HQ) and Dallas, TX. Typical time on-site is "None."
- **Notable Perks** (per Built In):
  - Comprehensive healthcare benefits (medical, dental, vision, FSA)
  - Generous parental leave and family medical leave
  - Performance bonuses
  - Employee discounts
  - Free snacks and drinks
  - Mobile phone discount
  - Travel concierge services
  - Job training, conferences, and customized development tracks
  - Promotion policies and career growth support
- **Engineering Culture**: Focus on leading-edge Azure technology, with opportunities to work on complex, high-impact projects for Fortune 500 clients. The company emphasizes innovation, continuous learning, and a collaborative "winning together" mindset.
- **Diversity & Inclusion**: 3Cloud is an equal opportunity employer committed to creating a diverse environment.

## Sources
1. [3Cloud Solutions - About Us](https://3cloudsolutions.com/about-us/)
2. [3Cloud Solutions - Careers](https://3cloudsolutions.com/join-us/)
3. [Built In - 3Cloud Careers, Perks + Culture](https://builtin.com/company/3cloud)
4. [Cognizant Press Release - Acquisition of 3Cloud (Finanzwire)](https://www.finanzwire.com/press-release/cognizant-technology-solutions-etr-cognizant-to-acquire-3cloud-creating-a-leading-force-in-microsoft-azure-services-and-enterprise-ai-transformation-X3tgRPOLQTb)

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