Senior Director - Data Governance Platforms

Required

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