Senior Director – Data Governance Platforms

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

📋 Description

• Lead the Data Governance Platforms practice at 3Cloud, influencing strategy, growth, market positioning, and performance.

• Establish how 3Cloud assists clients in developing trusted, secure, discoverable, high-quality, business-ready data foundations for analytics, Microsoft Copilot, and AI agents.

• Oversee the vision, strategy, business plan, portfolio, operating model, investment roadmap, and performance metrics for the practice.

• Determine market positioning, target buyers, service offerings, commercial models, value propositions, and collaboration boundaries.

• Convert Microsoft’s Frontier direction into a portfolio focused on trusted data, governance modernization, Fabric and OneLake adoption, Copilot readiness, AI governance, agent control, and enterprise context.

• Build a leadership team, reusable intellectual property, partner ecosystem, and delivery capability to profitably scale the practice.

• Manage go-to-market planning and demand generation in collaboration with account teams, Microsoft, Cognizant, alliances, marketing, and industry leaders.

• Create plays, offers, campaigns, executive narratives, discovery methods, proof-of-value motions, and repeatable sales and solutioning assets.

• Identify, qualify, and shape strategic opportunities with C-suite and senior stakeholders in data, AI, security, privacy, risk, compliance, and technology.

• Facilitate executive workshops and pursuit strategies, aligning outcomes, scope, solution direction, funding, commercial approach, delivery model, risks, and next steps.

• Act as a trusted advisor linking business strategy, regulatory obligations, risk appetite, operating model, architecture, platform choices, and transformation sequencing.

• Provide guidance on governance across Microsoft Purview, Fabric and OneLake, Microsoft IQ, Foundry, Microsoft 365 and Graph, Copilot Studio, Azure, and diverse enterprise environments.

• Advise on unified governance control planes that encompass identity, metadata, cataloging, policy, classification, protection, quality, lineage, observability, evaluation, audit, and runtime enforcement.

• Counsel on trusted business context through metadata, master/reference data, data quality, glossaries, semantic models, ontologies, knowledge graphs, authoritative metrics, and provenance.

• Guide AI and agent governance across models, copilots, prompts, tools, actions, memory, knowledge sources, identity, permissions, oversight, evaluation, audit, and lifecycle controls.

• Simplify complex technical decisions into clear executive choices regarding value, cost, risk, speed, dependencies, operating implications, and consequences of inaction.

• Develop leaders and employees; manage workforce strategy, succession, hiring profiles, certifications, communities of practice, and access to global and partner capabilities.

• Establish solution and delivery governance for architecture assurance, commercial discipline, quality gates, escalation, risk visibility, and benefits realization.

• Sponsor strategic engagements, mentor leaders, resolve significant client or solution risks, and convert lessons learned into enhanced offerings and methodologies.

• Maintain a proactive outlook on Microsoft and industry developments, sponsoring incubations and ecosystem partnerships that evolve into repeatable market offerings.

⛳️ Requirements

• 15+ years of experience in data, analytics, cloud, security, AI, or enterprise transformation, including leadership roles in senior consulting, professional services, or technology practices.

• Proven track record in building and scaling a consulting practice or major capability, with responsibility for strategy, offerings, pipeline, revenue, margin, talent, partnerships, and client outcomes.

• Demonstrated success in originating, qualifying, shaping, and securing complex data and AI transformation opportunities with C-suite and senior executives.

• Executive-level credibility in areas such as data governance, metadata, catalog, lineage, quality, MDM, privacy, security, compliance, data products, semantic context, ontologies, and responsible AI.

• Expertise in advising 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 in advising on AI and agent governance, including grounding, lifecycle controls, identity, permissions, actions, memory, oversight, evaluation, observability, audit, and incident response.

• Architectural depth to challenge designs, pinpoint risks, frame platform trade-offs, guide principal-level specialists, and articulate technical choices to executive audiences.

• Strong commercial judgment in areas such as qualification, value engineering, estimation, contracting, staffing, delivery risk, margin, investment decisions, and benefits realization.

• Exceptional executive presence, facilitation skills, storytelling ability, written communication, structured problem-solving skills, and capability to align business and technical stakeholders around action.

• A bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience is required.

• An advanced degree and relevant certifications in Microsoft, governance, security, privacy, cloud, or responsible AI are preferred.

• Applicants must not require work visa sponsorship.

🏝️ Benefits

• Comprehensive health and wellness plans.

• Opportunities for professional development and certifications.

• Flexible work arrangements and a supportive work environment.