Senior Director - Data Governance Platforms

About this role

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 - Data Governance Platforms leads 3Cloud's Data Governance Platforms practice, shaping strategy, growth, market positioning, and performance. This role defines how 3Cloud helps clients create trusted, secure, discoverable, high-quality, and business-ready data foundations for analytics, Microsoft Copilot, and AI agents. The role is accountable for building a differentiated Microsoft-aligned practice, creating demand, shaping strategic pursuits, developing senior client relationships, and enabling delivery at scale. The successful candidate combines commercial judgment, executive presence, and technical credibility across Microsoft Purview, Fabric and OneLake, Microsoft IQ, Foundry, Microsoft 365, Azure, Copilot Studio, and the broader data and AI ecosystem. This is not a hands-on engineering role, but requires the ability to challenge designs, frame tradeoffs, guide technical leaders, and connect platform choices to business value and risk. Responsibilities Practice Leadership and Strategy Own the practice vision, strategy, business plan, portfolio, operating model, investment roadmap, and performance metrics aligned to 3Cloud, Cognizant, Microsoft, and client priorities. Define market positioning, priority buyers, offerings, commercial models, differentiated value proposition, and collaboration boundaries across related data, AI, security, and industry teams. Translate Microsoft's Frontier direction into a coherent portfolio for trusted data, governance modernization, Fabric and OneLake adoption, Copilot readiness, AI governance, agent control, and enterprise context. Build the leadership bench, reusable IP, partner ecosystem, and delivery capability required to scale the practice profitably. Go-to-Market and Growth Own go-to-market planning and demand creation with account teams, Microsoft, Cognizant, alliances, marketing, and industry leaders. Develop compelling plays, offers, campaigns, executive narratives, discovery methods, proof-of-value motions, and repeatable sales and solutioning assets. span

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