3Cloud
3Cloud
501 – 1,000 Employees
ConsultingHealthcareManufacturing
3Cloud is a Microsoft Azure partner and technology consultancy that helps enterprise organizations apply cloud, data, and generative AI to practical business goals. Its work spans data analytics, AI services, DevOps, cloud application development, infrastructure management, and managed support, with a dedicated focus on the Azure ecosystem. 3Cloud works with organizations in sectors including healthcare, financial services, manufacturing, and retail, supporting AI strategy, implementation, and ongoing optimization. Its hiring context is centered on teams delivering enterprise cloud and AI transformation projects for clients.

Field CTO - United States (Remote)

Advise enterprise executives on Microsoft cloud, AI, and modernization strategy as 3Cloud’s Field CTO. Shape technology offerings, partnerships, market visibility, and major transformation pursuits.

Description

  • Act as the executive technology voice, champion, and trusted advisor for 3Cloud’s Enterprise Advisory & Solution Architecture practice
  • Develop peer relationships with CIOs, CTOs, CDOs, and transformation executives
  • Influence market positioning through industry participation and analyst engagement
  • Convert technology strategy into fundable, governable business outcomes
  • Define technology vision and multi-year transformation strategies for strategic accounts
  • Present technology choices through options, tradeoffs, enterprise risk, and expected value
  • Advocate for technical debt reduction and modernization
  • Link technology investment to measurable enterprise value, adoption needs, operating models, and governance
  • Represent 3Cloud in client forums, executive briefings, conferences, partner events, and analyst meetings
  • Produce points of view, executive briefings, and strategic narratives
  • Collaborate with analysts, sourcing advisors, consulting firms, and ecosystem partners
  • Build senior relationships with Microsoft field teams, ISVs, platform providers, and the wider technology ecosystem
  • Generate partner-influenced pipeline and advance co-sell outcomes
  • Convert partner roadmaps and platform strategies into client choices and offering decisions
  • Position Microsoft technologies within diverse enterprise technology environments
  • Establish technical direction and quality standards while developing capabilities through coaching and communities of practice
  • Drive results across pursuit, delivery, and partner teams through matrix-based influence
  • Guide the portfolio across Applications, Cloud Platforms, and Data & AI
  • Sponsor reference architectures, solution playbooks, accelerators, and governance guardrails
  • Support priority pursuits and lead solution defense
  • Generate executive demand and expand technology initiatives into broader transformation programs
  • Monitor emerging technologies and industry developments, including AI capabilities
  • Turn innovation into client recommendations, pilots, and phased adoption plans
  • Educate sales, pursuit, and delivery teams about technology trends and capabilities

Requirements

  • Experience as a Field CTO, Principal CTO, Chief Architect, Distinguished Architect, or comparable external-facing technology leader for an enterprise modernization, cloud, AI, or transformation practice
  • Executive technology leadership experience advising or leading complex enterprise technology organizations, with substantial C-suite engagement and peer relationships with CIOs, CTOs, CDOs, and transformation leaders at Fortune 500 or comparable companies
  • Recognized industry presence through keynotes, published perspectives, briefings, podcasts, analyst engagement, or other external forums
  • Advanced expertise in Microsoft Azure architecture, including enterprise-scale adoption, governance, security, integration, and modernization
  • Experience defining technology direction across Applications, Cloud Platforms, and Data & AI, including operating-model and governance considerations
  • Executive-level knowledge of enterprise AI strategy, including generative AI, agentic systems, data foundations, governance, security, and responsible adoption
  • Ability to guide executives on integrating Microsoft technologies with non-Microsoft cloud, data, AI, SaaS, and enterprise platforms
  • Executive communication skills that connect technology decisions with business impact, investment choices, constraints, and risk
  • Business and financial acumen linking technology strategy to investment, commercial results, delivery economics, and measurable enterprise value
  • Experience influencing large pursuits through credibility and solution strategy rather than pursuit operations
  • Experience developing offerings, accelerators, platforms, or reusable intellectual property
  • Established senior relationships with hyperscaler and platform partners, with the ability to lead joint solutioning and co-sell efforts
  • Experience leading through matrix influence across account, engineering, security, delivery, practice, and partner stakeholders
  • Experience developing, coaching, and mentoring senior architects or technology leaders
  • Ability to travel up to 25 percent as needed
  • Relevant professional certifications, or willingness to obtain and maintain them
  • Preferred: experience with hybrid environments and AWS or Google Cloud
  • Preferred: previous CTO, CIO, Chief Architect, Distinguished Architect, VP of Engineering, or comparable experience
  • Preferred: experience with executive forums, steering committees, board-level settings, analyst briefings, or named industry events
  • Preferred: experience in complex, regulated, or distributed enterprise environments
  • Preferred: experience in global or multicultural organizations and complex matrix structures
  • Applicants must not currently require employer sponsorship for work visas

Benefits

  • A diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace
  • Opportunities for professional growth
  • Travel of up to 25 percent as needed

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