Principal Architect - AI Product Engineering

About 3Cloud

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.

Role Overview

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 systems—spanning generative AI, intelligent agents, data platforms, and cloud-native applications—while shaping the broader direction of 3Cloud’s 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

Technical Strategy & Solution Delivery

• Lead cross-functional engineering and architecture teams in the end-to-end delivery of complex AI systems, ensuring technical excellence and delivery quality.
• Define and enforce reference architectures, technical patterns, delivery standards, and accelerators for enterprise AI adoption (leveraging Azure capabilities where appropriate).
• Provide senior-level architectural oversight on programs, guiding the design of advanced, distributed, AI-powered applications across multi-system enterprise environments.
• Drive the integration of modern AI capabilities—such as generative AI, intelligent/agentic systems, and Model Context Protocol (MCP)—into production-ready software.
• Champion best practices for performance, scalability, reliability, observability, and MLOps/LLMOps across all AI delivery engagements.

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 3Cloud’s 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.