Senior Director - Advanced Analytics

3Cloud
United States
Remote

Who this role is best for

Aimed at senior-level analytics leaders who can shape technical and strategic direction across cloud platforms and drive innovation.

Best fit for

  • Candidates with 15+ years of analytics leadership and a track record in cloud data platforms like Microsoft Fabric and Databricks
    — “15+ years in analytics, BI, data products, decision intelligence, or adjacent human-centered data disciplines, including sustained practice leadership.”
  • Individuals who thrive in collaborative, high-impact environments and can build team culture around innovation and accountability
    — “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.”
  • Professionals with experience in translating business goals into technical roadmaps and delivery plans
    — “Translate business priorities into modern analytics roadmaps across Power BI, Microsoft Fabric, Databricks, Azure AI, and complementary platforms.”

Things to consider

  • The role requires a strong balance of technical, strategic, and people leadership responsibilities.
    — “At this level, the role carries shared accountability for market relevance, pipeline, bookings, revenue, margin, utilization, delivery excellence, and talent development.”
  • The position involves a high level of cross-functional collaboration with sales, marketing, and alliance teams.
    — “Partner with sales, account, marketing, alliance, and practice leaders to create demand, qualify whitespace, shape pursuits, and build pipeline across new and existing clients.”

How to stand out

  • Emphasize experience in defining reference architectures and enabling technical excellence across teams.
    — “Create reusable standards, reference implementations, playbooks, accelerators, and enablement that raise technical excellence and speed delivery across the practice.”
  • Highlight your ability to align teams on complex delivery cadences and operational models.
    — “Align teams on outcomes, backlogs, dependencies, APIs, integration contracts, delivery cadences, operating models, quality measures, and release plans.”
  • Demonstrate your ability to shape analytics strategies for enterprise clients and translate them into measurable outcomes.
    — “Lead executive stakeholder conversations on analytics strategy, cloud modernization, AI adoption, investment priorities, roadmaps, risks, and measurable outcomes.”
Pace · Fast PacedCollaboration · HighAutonomy · HighDecision Impact · Company

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What success looks like

  • setting advanced analytics strategy
  • shaping market offerings
Typical background
technical leadership in data science

Skills & requirements

Required

Advanced AnalyticsBISemantic ModelsSelf-service AnalyticsDecision Intelligence

Preferred

AIMachine Learning

Stack & domain

BISemantic ModelsSelf-service AnalyticsEmbedded ExperiencesConversational AnalyticsDecision IntelligenceAgentsWorkflow-integrated AutomationPower BIMicrosoft FabricDatabricksAzure AIMicrosoft PurviewUnity CatalogLeadershipTechnical DirectionDelivery QualityGrowthClient ValueInnovationTrustContinuous ImprovementAdvanced AnalyticsData ScienceBusiness Intelligence

About the role

Original posting from 3Cloud via Greenhouse

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.

The Senior Director -, Advanced Analytics leads the practice’s people, technical direction, delivery quality, and growth. This role sets the strategy for how clients discover, understand, and act on data across BI, semantic models, self-service analytics, embedded experiences, conversational analytics, decision intelligence, agents, and workflow-integrated automation. The Senior Director translates business priorities into modern analytics roadmaps across Power BI, Microsoft Fabric, Databricks, Azure AI, and complementary platforms, while shaping market offerings, strategic pursuits, alliance motions, and repeatable revenue growth. 

At this level, the role carries shared accountability for market relevance, pipeline, bookings, revenue, margin, utilization, delivery excellence, and talent development. Success requires technical credibility, executive presence, commercial ownership, and the ability to build a culture where client value, innovation, trust, and continuous improvement reinforce one another. 

Responsibilities 

People Leadership 

Lead managers and teams with clear expectations, coaching, regular feedback, and accountability for delivery commitments, growth plans, and internal contributions. 

Monitor team health, morale, workload, utilization, and engagement; address performance or staffing risks early in partnership with practice leadership. 

Create development plans that include stretch assignments, mentoring, certifications, shadowing, and external visibility opportunities. 

Support hiring, interviews, performance reviews, promotion recommendations, compensation input, and consistent talent standards across the practice. 

Represent team needs, risks, successes, and patterns in leadership forums, and communicate priorities and decisions clearly back to the organization. 

Advanced Analytics Strategy and Technical Leadership 

Own the Advanced Analytics strategy, architecture, and experience vision across Power BI, Microsoft Fabric, Databricks, Azure AI, and related platforms. 

Set 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 spanning data ingestion, lakehouse, warehouse, ontology, semantic models, user experiences, APIs, and operational decision points. 

Establish trust, governance, responsible AI, lineage, security, privacy, explainability, monitoring, and human-oversight practices using platforms such as Microsoft Purview and Unity Catalog. 

Guide major architecture decisions, resolve trade-offs, remove technical blockers, and coach architects and delivery teams toward scalable, secure, reliable, accessible, and cost-effective solutions. 

Create reusable standards, reference implementations, playbooks, accelerators, and enablement that raise technical excellence and speed delivery across the practice. 

Delivery and Consulting Excellence 

Lead executive stakeholder conversations on analytics strategy, cloud modernization, AI adoption, investment priorities, roadmaps, risks, and measurable outcomes. 

Shape discovery, architecture, estimation, and delivery plans that balance value, cost, speed, quality, adoption, and long-term platform health. 

Run decision forums, architecture reviews, and steering conversations that produce clear decisions, rationale, ownership, and next steps. 

Align teams on outcomes, backlogs, dependencies, APIs, integration contracts, delivery cadences, operating models, quality measures, and release plans. 

Track risk, technical debt, quality trends, architectural drift, and delivery performance; recommend course corrections that protect client outcomes and margin. 

Go-to-Market, Growth, and Innovation 

Own the practice growth strategy, including priority markets, buyer personas, value propositions, offerings, partnerships, annual growth priorities, and measurable business outcomes. 

Translate market trends, client demand, Microsoft and Databricks priorities, and delivery lessons into repeatable plays, workshops, assessments, accelerators, and managed capabilities. 

Partner with sales, account, marketing, alliance, and practice leaders to create demand, qualify whitespace, shape pursuits, and build pipeline across new and existing clients. 

Serve as pursuit lead, solution lead, or executive sponsor for strategic opportunities, shaping win themes, solution strategy, estimates, staffing, risks, and executive presentations. 

Package successful outcomes into case studies, demonstrations, reference architectures, executive content, and reusable proof points that strengthen credibility and shorten sales cycles. 

Requirements 

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

15+ years in analytics, BI, data products, decision intelligence, or adjacent human-centered data disciplines, including sustained practice leadership. 

12+ years delivering enterprise-scale cloud, data, analytics, AI, modernization, or platform solutions; 7+ years leading architecture, engineering, or multi-team delivery. 

Deep expertise in 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 experience building and growing a consulting practice or portfolio with accountability for offerings, pipeline, bookings, revenue, margin, utilization, alliances, pursuits, and executive sponsorship. 

Strong consulting presence, executive communication, structured problem solving, stakeholder management, and ability to lead hybrid teams across complex, matrixed environments. 

Commitment to continuous learning in cloud, data, AI, responsible adoption, and practical improvement for teams and clients. Relevant Azure, Fabric, Power BI, or Databricks certifications preferred. 

Preferred Qualifications 

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

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

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.

Source: 3Cloud careers (Greenhouse)

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