Director, Data Science & AI

The Director in Delivery leads multiple teams and managers, ensuring each group is healthy, high[1]performing, and aligned to service line priorities. They also lead architecture for large Azure programs that span applications, platforms, and data. You connect business goals to cloud modernization roadmaps, define architecture frameworks, and guide multi-team execution. At this level, you act as an organization-wide technical leader. You set technical direction across practices, orchestrate cross-team discovery, keep designs aligned across multiple teams, and turn successful patterns into reusable models. You promote strong engineering, automation, and AI-assisted practices, mentor Senior Architects and Delivery Architects, and help build an inclusive, continuously improving engineering culture while supporting clear investment and modernization decisions for 3Cloud and our clients.

Responsibilities:

People Leadership Expectations

• Maintain a clear view of each team member's delivery commitments, growth plans, and internal contributions.
• Develop and grow team members through regular coaching, clear expectations, and constructive feedback. Build a culture of trust, inclusion, and collaboration.
• Monitor team health, morale, and workload balance, acting early to address engagement or performance concerns in partnership with practice leadership.
• Maintain regular one-to-one connections with each team member, provide clear feedback, and help them remove blockers related to client work, pursuits, or internal initiatives.
• Oversee staffing and resource alignment across teams, balancing utilization, development goals, client needs, and sustainable workloads.
• Communicate practice priorities and organizational objectives clearly, ensuring teams understand how their work contributes to broader organizational goals.
• Define interview standards and mentorship strategies, training others to apply them consistently and improving hiring outcomes and talent growth at scale.
• Create and maintain development plans for team members, including stretch assignments, shadowing, certifications, and opportunities for external visibility.
• Lead or support performance reviews, promotion recommendations, and compensation input for your teams, using consistent standards that reflect both impact and behavior.
• Represent your teams in leadership forums, communicate expectations and decisions clearly back to the group, and bring forward patterns, risks, and successes that should shape practice strategy. Solution Architecture and Technical Leadership
• Lead architecture and technical strategy for large Azure programs and portfolios so solutions meet client goals for value, security, scalability, reliability, performance, and cost.
• Define modernization blueprints and reference architectures across applications, platforms, and data, including system and subsystem designs, patterns, and standards that simplify delivery and operations over time.
• Translate business and product strategy into cloud architecture roadmaps and execution plans that drive measurable outcomes and adapt based on production feedback and telemetry.
• Guide major architecture decisions across programs, promote shared design standards and reusable models, and resolve high-impact technical trade-offs.
• Work across teams to connect solutions into cohesive end-to-end architectures with clear ownership boundaries and integration contracts.
• Provide architectural oversight during delivery through design reviews, forums, and governance, keeping cross-cutting concerns (security, performance, resilience, availability, compliance, obse