Consulting Manager - Cloud Platform
3Cloud· Cloud & AI Consulting· Aug 5, 2026 · 3mo agoPosted 83 days ago
United States
Remote
Full-time
Manager
$158K–$227K est.
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Job description
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. Overview:
The 3Cloud Consulting Manager leads a team of engineers and architects and helps support solution development innovation and drives consulting best practices of cloud platform solutions that are foundational to a client’s transformational Azure journey.
The Consulting Manager role provides a career path for Senior Architects to maintain their technical edge while continuing to support client delivery excellence while collaboratively building career development paths for cloud platform architects and engineers.
Mentorship & People Development
Coaching and Mentorship: Act as a coach in a player-coach model, providing hands-on guidance and support to architects, and engineers. Foster a culture of continuous improvement anchored in a growth mindset, encouraging team members to seek feedback, learn from challenges, and celebrate progress. Maintain regular one-to-one connections with each team member, provide clear feedback, and help them remove blockers related to client work, pursuits, or internal initiatives.
Consultative Leadership: Promote a consultative approach across all team members. Encourage strong relationship-building with clients and peers, and lead by example through thought leadership and strategic influence.
Skills Inventory and Upskilling: Regularly assess individual and capabilities. Develop and implement upskilling plans to ensure every team member has a clear career path aligned with both individual aspirations and organizational growth objectives. Track progress and celebrate milestones in professional development.
Vision and Practice Strategy for Delivery Excellence: Set and communicate practice priorities and organizational objectives clearly, ensuring teams understand how their work contributes to broader organizational goals.
Mange Career Growth Plans and workload: Establish open communication channels within the team. Maintain a clear view of each team member's delivery commitments, growth plans, and internal contributions. Develop and grow team members through regular coaching, clear expectations, and constructive feedback. Build a culture of trust, inclusion, and collaboration. Oversee staffing and resource alignment across teams, balancing utilization, development goals, client needs, and sustainable workloads.
Cross-Practice Collaboration: Champion a “One 3Cloud” experience by facilitating collaboration with cross-service line teams (such as Data, App Innovation, and Managed Services). Share best practices and innovative techniques that elevate team performance and drive successful execution across the organization. Help individuals build their personal professional brand as they look to expand their internal and external network.
Performance Evaluation:
Lead or support performance reviews, promotion recommendations, and compensation input for your teams, using consistent standards that reflect both impact and behavior.
Delivery and Team Support Activities
Key and Priority Account Oversight: Oversee and support strategic accounts, ensuring that key and priority clients receive exceptional service and attention. Collaborate with account teams to address complex needs and drive successful outcomes.
Project Escalation Support: Serve as a primary escalation point for project challenges across the organization. Provide guidance and resources to resolve issues efficiently, minimizing disruption to client engagements and maintaining high standards of service.
Change Management and Project Extensions: Proactively facilitate change orders and project extensions when in-flight projects require adjustments. Ensure all changes are communicated clearly to stakeholders and that project scope, timelines, and deliverables remain aligned with client expectations.
Talent Acquisition and Recognition: Participate in the interview and selection process for cloud platform candidates, ensuring new hires align with team capacity needs and organizational culture. Support the upskilling and recognition of team members who demonstrate exceptional client impact and contribute significantly to practice growth.
Business Growth and Solution Development
Solution Development and Innovation: Support evolution and innovation of cloud platform solutions within your designated solution area. Partner with team leaders and principals to design, refine, and implement scalable delivery standards.
Solution Definition Frameworks: Support Solution Area lead with solution definition frameworks that establish best practices for delivery excellence. Ensure these frameworks are adopted across teams to drive repeatable, high-quality outcomes for clients.
Client Relationship Expansion: Facilitate the development of customer roadmaps and identify next steps to deepen client relationships beyond current engagements. Champion the “Land and Expand” approach to maximize long-term partnership value.
Delivery Escalation and Stakeholder Management: Build and nurture strong relationships with key client stakeholders. Serve as a delivery lead escalation point to ensure client expectations are managed and exceeded, and that any challenges are addressed promptly and effectively.
Individual Targets
As a Consulting Manager, you are accountable for achieving the following individual targets that directly support the growth and operational excellence of the Cloud Platform practice:
Drive Business Metrics: Consistently meet or exceed the business metrics set by leadership for your solution area, including Delivered Revenue, Utilization, Project Profitability, and Gross Margin. Monitor performance against these metrics and take corrective action as needed to ensure organizational goals are achieved.
People Retention: Foster a positive, growth-oriented team environment that supports the retention of top talent. Implement strategies to enhance employee engagement, satisfaction, and career development, resulting in high retention rates and a strong, stable team.
Service Offering Expansion: Actively contribute to the development and launch of new service offerings. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify market opportunities, shape innovative solutions, and bring new services to market that address evolving client needs.
AI Enablement: Champion the adoption and integration of artificial intelligence within the team and across service offerings. Promote continuous learning and upskilling in AI technologies to enhance delivery capabilities and maintain a competitive edge.
Don’t meet every single requirement? At 3Cloud we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your experience doesn’t 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
This Job Posting will expire on Monday, November 16th, 2026.
3Cloud Total Rewards Highlights Include:
Flexible work location with a virtual first approach to work!
401(K) with match up to 50% of your 6% contributions of eligible pay
Generous PTO providing a minimum of 15 days in addition to 9 paid company holidays and 2 floating personal days
Two medical plan options to allow you the choice to elect what works best for you!
Option for vision and dental coverage
100% employer paid coverage for life and disability insurance
Paid leave for birth parents and non-birth parents
Option for Healthcare FSA, HSA, and Dependent Care FSA
$67.00 monthly tech and home office allowance
Utilization and/or discretionary bonus eligibility based on role
Employee Assistance Program to help with everyday challenges
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. Base Salary Range $117,500 — $176,300 USD Don’t meet every single requirement? At 3Cloud we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t 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.
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