Principal Architect - AI Product Engineering
3Cloud
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$67
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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 arent 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 3Clouds core values because they know that it will result in amazing experiences and solutions for our clients and each other.
As an AI Product Engineering Principal Architect, you are the senior technical leader responsible for driving the design, delivery, and execution of complex, enterprise-grade AI solutions. You will lead teams of architects and engineers in building advanced AI systemsspanning generative AI, intelligent agents, data platforms, and cloud-native applicationswhile shaping the broader direction of 3Clouds AI Product Engineering practice.
You combine deep, hands-on technical expertise with strong leadership skills, enabling you to mentor technical teams, remove architectural barriers, and ensure successful delivery of highly complex AI programs. You are a trusted advisor to C-level stakeholders and a driver of innovation, ensuring that 3Cloud delivers scalable, secure, and high-impact AI solutions across industries.
Responsibilities
Client Engagement & Technical Leadership
Serve as a trusted technical advisor to executive stakeholders (CIO, CTO, CDO), helping them define enterprise AI strategies and prioritize high-value opportunities.
Lead technical workshops, architecture reviews, and visioning sessions to align solution direction with business outcomes.
Represent 3Clouds technical leadership in client engagements, partner discussions, and industry events, effectively communicating complex AI and engineering concepts.
Program Leadership & Delivery Management
Oversee a portfolio of large-scale AI delivery programs, ensuring architectural integrity, risk mitigation, and alignment with client strategy.
Provide proactive technical guidance to remove delivery blockers, solve architectural challenges, and ensure teams are building scalable and secure solutions.
Shape the technical direction of sales pursuits, proposals, and multi-year roadmap engagements through expert-level architectural insight.
Practice Leadership & Mentorship
Mentor senior architects, tech leads, and engineers, raising the overall technical bar of the practice.
Define and expand internal frameworks, reusable components, delivery IP, and reference architectures to improve quality and speed across AI engagements.
Contribute to thought leadership through whitepapers, conference speaking, open-source contributions, and community involvement.
Intentionally evangelize AI Product Engineering capabilities and opportunities across the company and projects to promote awareness and consideration in cross-practice opportunities and proposals.
Requirements
Enterprise Transformation & Program Leadership
Extensive experience guiding large-scale modernization or AI adoption programs across multiple business units.
Demonstrated ability to build and execute technical strategies that align with enterprise business goals.
Deep expertise across several of the following areas:
Responsible AI, Security & Compliance
Applying AI governance, safety, risk mitigation, and privacy controls across enterprise AI solutions.
AI Platforms & Data Foundations
Hands-on experience with Azure AI, Azure OpenAI, Databricks, ML/data pipelines, event-driven architectures, and scalable data systems.
Cloud Engineering
Expertise in API-driven, microservices-based, and containerized architectures on Azure. Deep familiarity with DevOps, CI/CD, IaC, and Microsoft development ecosystems (C#, .NET, Azure Functions, etc.).
Data Integration & Governance
Experience building robust ETL/ELT systems with strong data quality and metadata governance practices.
Analytics & Visualization
Ability to integrate analytics and ML outputs into enterprise applications and BI environments.
Innovation & Adaptability
Continuously explores emerging AI technologies and can rapidly convert them into enterpriseready, technically sound solutions.
Tools & Methodologies
Strong proficiency with modern development workflows, DevOps practices, GitHub, and AIassisted coding tools.
Comfortable working in Agile environments and driving iterative delivery.
Strategic Vision & Business Acumen
Ability to align technical architecture with business outcomes; capable of influencing and shaping long-term strategies.
Thought Leadership & IP Development
Recognized for contributing to the AI ecosystem (articles, talks, OSS, frameworks, accelerators).
Experience building reusable IP adopted across teams or practices.
Certifications
Azure Solutions Architect, Azure AI Engineer, Databricks certifications, or other relevant cloud/AI credentials are highly valued.
Dont meet every single requirement? At 3Cloud we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, so if youre excited about this role but your past experience doesnt 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.
3Cloud offers competitive compensation. In addition to base pay employees are eligible to receive an annual discretionary/utilization bonus. If you are hired at 3Cloud your final base salary is based on factors such as skills, education, experience and/or geographic location.Please keep in mind that the range mentioned above includes the full base salary range for the role.It is not typical for offers to be made at or near the top of the range.
Dont meet every single requirement? At 3Cloud we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, so if youre excited about this role but your past experience doesnt align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway.