Senior Director - Advanced Analytics

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.