Senior Architect - Enterprise Solutions Architecture

3Cloud · Remote - US

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 Senior Architect, you lead architecture and technical strategy for enterprise-scale Azure programs. You guide delivery teams, shape modernization approaches, and ensure that architectural decisions enable business transformation. At this level, your focus expands beyond a single domain to include collaboration across related disciplines. You build credibility through delivery excellence, technical leadership, and the ability to influence architecture strategy across projects and practices.

You balance deep technical expertise with growing cross-domain awareness, mentoring architects and engineers, promoting reusable frameworks, and contributing to presales and modernization initiatives.

Responsibilities

Lead architecture and technical strategy for enterprise-scale Azure modernization and transformation programs.
Translate client goals into scalable technical designs, aligning architecture decisions with business priorities and delivery outcomes.
Drive architecture development across delivery teams, ensuring reusable models, design standards, and technical consistency.
Collaborate across adjacent domains (App Innovation, Cloud Platform, Data & AI) to integrate solutions and strengthen architecture cohesion.
Provide architectural oversight through design reviews, delivery frameworks, and technical quality assurance.
Mentor architects and engineering teams, building delivery capability, technical rigor, and cross-domain fluency.
Contribute to IP and framework development, identifying repeatable patterns and reusable assets to improve delivery efficiency.
Engage in presales activities by supporting solution shaping, technical scoping, and proposal input for strategic opportunities.
Collaborate with stakeholders across delivery and business functions to ensure delivery success and technical alignment.
Manage workload and commitments to achieve utilization and quality outcomes while contributing to delivery innovation and client success.

Requirements

Proven experience leading architecture and delivery for enterprise Azure solutions across programs such as modernization, consulting, and transformation.
Demonstrated ability to define solution architectures that align business goals with scalable technical design and delivery excellence.
Strong understanding of the full delivery lifecycle, including architecture governance, delivery oversight, and presales collaboration.
Recognized for mentoring architects and engineers, fostering design rigor, technical leadership, and delivery capability growth.
Proven ability to influence architecture direction across projects, promoting reusable frameworks, tools, and technical consistency.
Deep technical expertise in one or more Azure domains, with growing fluency across adjacent disciplines (Application Innovation, Cloud Platform, or Data & AI).
Excellent communication skills, with the ability to articulate architecture decisions, trade-offs, and delivery strategies to technical and business audiences.
Azure Solutions Architect Expert certification (or equivalent).
Experience working in hybrid or multi-cloud environments.
Willingness to travel up to 25% for client projects as needed.

Expertise

At this level, Senior Architects demonstrate deep expertise in one primary domain while developing fluency across adjacent areas. They apply their technical mastery to shape delivery success, reusable frameworks, and modernization strategies that align with business outcomes.

Application Innovation

Lead application modernization and migration strategies across enterprise programs.
Architect and deliver modern applications using .NET, Java, Node.js, or Python within Azure environments.
Design and implement event-driven, API-first, and microservices-based architectures that integrate with enterprise systems.
Define DevOps pipelines, CI/CD governance, and automation strategies using Azure DevOps, GitHub, and container platforms (AKS, Azure Container Apps).
Collaborate with data and infrastructure teams to ensure performance, maintainability, and delivery alignment.

Cloud Platform

Lead Azure infrastructure design for enterprise environments, including identity, security, networking, and governance.
Implement Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Bicep, ARM templates) for scalable and repeatable delivery.
Develop automation and compliance frameworks that improve platform reliability and reduce delivery risk.
Define hybrid and multi-cloud integration strategies that align to enterprise landing zones and operating models.
Partner with application and data teams to enable scalable modernization and platform consistency.

Data & AI

Define and deliver enterprise data strategies that enable modernization across applications and infrastructure.
Design data platforms using Azure Synapse, Databricks, Data Lake, and SQL technologies.
Build and optimize data integration pipelines and governance frameworks for large-scale delivery.
Enable AI and analytics adoption through applied machine learning, Azure Cognitive Services, and intelligent automation.
Collaborate across domains to deliver connected architectures that enable insight-driven business outcomes.

Certification Requirements

Core Requirement:
- AZ-900: Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals
- AZ-104: Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate
- AZ-305: Solutions Architect Expert

This Job Posting will expire on Monday, June 29th, 2026.

3Cloud Total Rewards Highlights Include: 

Flexible work location with a virtual first approach to work! 
401(K) with match up to 50% of your 6% contributions of eligible pay 
Generous PTO providing a minimum of 15 days in addition to 9 paid company holidays and 2 floating personal days 
Two medical plan options to allow you the choice to elect what works best for you!
Option for vision and dental coverage 
100% employer paid coverage for life and disability insurance
Paid leave for birth parents and non-birth parents 
Option for Healthcare FSA, HSA, and Dependent Care FSA
$67.00 monthly tech and home office allowance
Utilization and/or discretionary bonus eligibility based on role 
Employee Assistance Program to help with everyday challenges

3Cloud offers competitive compensation. In addition to base pay employees are eligible to receive an annual discretionary/utilization bonus. If you are hired at 3Cloud your final base salary is based on factors such as skills, education, experience and/or geographic location. Please keep in mind that the range mentioned above includes the full base salary range for the role. It is not typical for offers to be made at or near the top of the range.

Base Salary Range

$145,200—$205,300 USD

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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