Senior Director - Data Governance Platforms

3Cloud, Remote - US +1

The role

The Senior Director – Data Governance Platforms leads 3Cloud’s Data Governance Platforms practice, shaping strategy, growth, market positioning, and performance. This role defines how 3Cloud helps clients create trusted, secure, discoverable, high-quality, and business-ready data foundations for analytics, Microsoft Copilot, and AI agents.

The role is accountable for building a differentiated Microsoft-aligned practice, creating demand, shaping strategic pursuits, developing senior client relationships, and enabling delivery at scale. The successful candidate combines commercial judgment, executive presence, and technical credibility across Microsoft Purview, Fabric and OneLake, Microsoft IQ, Foundry, Microsoft 365, Azure, Copilot Studio, and the broader data and AI ecosystem. This is not a hands-on engineering role, but requires the ability to challenge designs, frame tradeoffs, guide technical leaders, and connect platform choices to business value and risk.

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Senior Director - Data Governance Platforms

3Cloud, Remote - US +1

The role

What you need

15+ years in data, analytics, cloud, security, AI, or enterprise transformation, including senior consulting, professional services, or technology practice leadership.
Proven ability to build and scale a consulting practice or major capability, with accountability for strategy, offerings, pipeline, revenue, margin, talent, partnerships, and client outcomes.
Demonstrated success originating, qualifying, shaping, and winning complex data and AI transformation opportunities with C-suite and senior executives.
Executive-level credibility across data governance, metadata, catalog, lineage, quality, MDM, privacy, security, compliance, data products, semantic context, ontologies, and responsible AI.
Ability to advise on Microsoft Purview, Fabric and OneLake, Microsoft IQ, Foundry, Microsoft 365 and Graph, Copilot Studio, Azure data and AI services, Entra, Defender, Sentinel, and relevant partner platforms.
Credibility advising on AI and agent governance, including grounding, lifecycle controls, identity, permissions, actions, memory, oversight, evaluation, observability, audit, and incident response.
Architecture depth to challenge designs, identify risks, frame platform tradeoffs, guide principal-level specialists, and explain technical choices to executive audiences.
Strong commercial judgment across qualification, value engineering, estimation, contracting, staffing, delivery risk, margin, investment decisions, and benefits realization.
Exceptional executive presence, facilitation, storytelling, written communication, structured problem solving, and ability to align business and technical stakeholders around action.
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience required; advanced degree and relevant Microsoft, governance, security, privacy, cloud, or responsible AI certifications preferred.

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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Senior Director - Data Governance Platforms

The role

Senior Director - Data Governance Platforms

The role

What you need

Practice Leadership and Strategy

Go-to-Market and Growth

Executive and Technical Advisory

Practice Enablement, Delivery, and Innovation

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