Principal Architect - Applied AI & Machine Learning

Role Description

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!

The Principal Architect in Delivery leads 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.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience delivering solutions in a primary domain such as application development, cloud platform engineering, DevOps, or data and analytics, including significant work at enterprise scale.
• 7+ years of experience in solution architecture and leading development or engineering teams, including multi-team or multi-workstream efforts at program scale.
• Ten or more years of relevant experience with a demonstrated ability to set vision and lead enterprise-wide AI/ML adoption strategies.
• Proven ability to integrate emerging AI frameworks into enterprise-ready solutions.
• Experience leading architecture and delivery for Azure-based modernization, transformation, AI, or platform programs at enterprise scale.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with strong presentation, written, and verbal communication skills for both technical and business audiences.
• Commitment to continuous learning in cloud, data, and AI, with the ability to turn that learning into practical improvements for teams and clients.
• Relevant cloud architecture certifications (for example, Azure-focused architect certifications or comparable role-based certifications) are strongly preferred.

Requirements

• Thought leadership and deep expertise across several of the following:
• Agents & Orchestration – leveraging Semantic Kernel, LangChain, or similar frameworks to design intelligent workflows.
• Search & Retrieval – implementing solutions with vector databases such as Azure AI Search, Pinecone, FAISS, or Milvus.
• Evaluation, Quality & LLM Operations – establishing offline and online evaluation approaches.
• Responsible AI, Security & Privacy – incorporating practices such as threat modeling, privacy reviews, and model risk management.
• AI Platforms & Data Foundations – applying hands-on experience with Azure AI services, Databricks, Azure OpenAI, and related modern data platforms.
• Cloud Engineering – designing with APIs, containers, microservices, and DevOps pipelines.
• Data Integration & Governance – developing and managing data pipelines.
• Analytics & Visualization – delivering insights with Power BI and other visualization tools.
• Experience using AI-augmented development and integrating AI and machine learning capabilities into solutions.
• Significant experience working in Agile or Scrum environments at scale.
• Proven success in consulting or professional services, including client-facing leadership and executive engagement.
• Familiarity with key Azure services used in modern solutions that are relevant to your domain.

Benefits

• 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.

Company Description

3Cloud is dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace. 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.