Senior Director – Advanced Analytics

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Lead the practice’s personnel, technical direction, delivery excellence, and development.

• Develop strategies for how clients can discover, comprehend, and utilize data across BI, semantic models, self-service analytics, embedded experiences, conversational analytics, decision intelligence, agents, and workflow-integrated automation.

• Convert business priorities into contemporary analytics roadmaps utilizing Power BI, Microsoft Fabric, Databricks, Azure AI, and related platforms.

• Design market offerings, strategic initiatives, alliance activities, and sustainable revenue growth.

• Guide managers and teams with clear expectations, coaching, constructive feedback, and accountability.

• Assess team health, morale, workload, utilization, and engagement; address performance and staffing challenges.

• Develop training plans and assist with hiring, interviewing, performance evaluations, promotions, and compensation recommendations.

• Own the vision for Advanced Analytics strategy, architecture, and user experience.

• Establish standards for BI, dashboards, semantic and metrics layers, governed self-service, embedded analytics, natural-language exploration, conversational analytics, alerts, narratives, agents, and decision workflows.

• Define reference architectures that encompass data ingestion, lakehouse, warehouse, ontology, semantic models, user experiences, APIs, and operational decision points.

• Implement governance, responsible AI, lineage, security, privacy, explainability, monitoring, and human oversight practices using Microsoft Purview and Unity Catalog.

• Guide architectural decisions, address trade-offs, eliminate technical obstacles, and mentor architects and delivery teams.

• Develop reusable standards, reference implementations, playbooks, accelerators, and enablement materials.

• Lead discussions with executive stakeholders regarding analytics strategy, cloud modernization, AI adoption, investment priorities, roadmaps, risks, and measurable outcomes.

• Shape discovery, architecture, estimation, and delivery strategies.

• Facilitate decision forums, architecture reviews, and steering discussions.

• Align teams on objectives, backlogs, dependencies, APIs, integration agreements, delivery schedules, operating models, quality metrics, and release strategies.

• Monitor risk, technical debt, quality trends, architectural drift, and delivery performance.

• Own the growth strategy of the practice, including target markets, buyer personas, value propositions, service offerings, partnerships, and annual growth objectives.

• Translate market trends, client requirements, Microsoft and Databricks priorities, and delivery insights into repeatable offerings.

• Collaborate with sales, account management, marketing, alliance partners, and practice leaders to generate demand, influence pursuits, and create a pipeline.

• Act as pursuit lead, solution lead, or executive sponsor for strategic initiatives.

• Compile successful outcomes into case studies, demonstrations, reference architectures, executive materials, and reusable proof points.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Analytics, Data Science, Computer Science, Information Systems, Human-Computer Interaction, Business, or a related field is preferred.

• Over 15 years of experience in analytics, BI, data products, decision intelligence, or related human-centered data fields, including sustained practice leadership.

• More than 12 years of delivering enterprise-scale cloud, data, analytics, AI, modernization, or platform solutions.

• At least 7 years of experience leading architecture, engineering, or multi-team delivery.

• Extensive knowledge of modern analytics architecture, including Power BI, Microsoft Fabric, Databricks, Azure data services, semantic and metrics layers, self-service patterns, conversational analytics, agents, and workflow integration.

• Proven track record in building and expanding a consulting practice or portfolio with accountability for offerings, pipeline, bookings, revenue, margin, utilization, alliances, pursuits, and executive sponsorship.

• Strong consulting presence, executive communication skills, structured problem-solving capabilities, stakeholder management, and the ability to lead hybrid teams in complex, matrixed settings.

• Commitment to ongoing learning in cloud, data, AI, responsible adoption, and practical improvement for teams and clients.

• Relevant Azure, Fabric, Power BI, or Databricks certifications are preferred.

• Experience with various cloud vendors and complementary platforms such as Snowflake, Microsoft Fabric, Power BI, and Databricks.

• Experience in creating and scaling Advanced Analytics offerings that encompass BI, data products, embedded and conversational analytics, decision support, agents, and workflow automation.

• Applicants must be unable to require employer-sponsored work visas, as 3Cloud cannot sponsor applicants for work visas.

🏝️ Benefits

• A diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace.

• Opportunities for professional growth.

• Stretch assignments, mentoring, certifications, shadowing, and external visibility opportunities.

• Ongoing learning opportunities in cloud, data, AI, and responsible adoption.