Senior Director - Data Governance Platforms

The role

The Senior Director - Data Governance Platforms leads the Data Governance Platforms practice by shaping strategy, growth, and market positioning. This person defines how the company helps clients create data foundations for analytics, Microsoft Copilot, and AI agents.

What you will do

• Own the practice vision, strategy, business plan, portfolio, operating model, investment roadmap, and performance metrics.
• Define market positioning, priority buyers, offerings, commercial models, and value propositions.
• Translate Microsoft’s Frontier direction into a coherent portfolio for data, governance, and AI.
• Build the leadership bench, reusable IP, partner ecosystem, and delivery capability.
• Own go-to-market planning and demand creation with account teams and partners.
• Develop sales and solutioning assets, executive narratives, and proof-of-value motions.
• Originate, qualify, and shape strategic opportunities with C-suite and senior stakeholders.
• Lead executive workshops and pursuit strategy.
• Serve as a trusted advisor connecting business strategy to architecture and platform choices.
• Develop leaders and employees and establish solution and delivery governance.

Required qualifications

• 15+ years in data, analytics, cloud, security, AI, or enterprise transformation, including senior consulting, professional services, or technology practice leadership.
• Proven ability to build and scale a consulting practice or major capability.
• Demonstrated success originating, qualifying, shaping, and winning complex data and AI transformation opportunities with C-suite and senior executives.
• Executive-level credibility across data governance, metadata, catalog, lineage, quality, MDM, privacy, security, compliance, data products, semantic context, ontologies, and responsible AI.
• Ability to advise on Microsoft Purview, Fabric and OneLake, Microsoft IQ, Foundry, Microsoft 365 and Graph, Copilot Studio, Azure data and AI services, Entra, Defender, Sentinel, and relevant partner
• Credibility advising on AI and agent governance, including grounding, lifecycle controls, identity, permissions, actions, memory, oversight, evaluation, observability, audit, and incident response.
• Architecture depth to challenge designs, identify risks, frame platform tradeoffs, guide principal-level specialists, and explain technical choices to executive audiences.
• Strong commercial judgment across qualification, value engineering, estimation, contracting, staffing, delivery risk, margin, investment decisions, and benefits realization.
• Exceptional executive presence, facilitation, storytelling, written communication, structured problem solving, and ability to align business and technical stakeholders around action.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience

Nice to have

• advanced degree
• relevant Microsoft, governance, security, privacy, cloud, or responsible AI certifications

About the company

3Cloud hires people who are willing to give direct and candid feedback and challenge each other to live their core values. They work on teams that take on tough problems together to provide solutions for clients.