The Company
NorthMark Strategies is a leading investment firm, combining capital, innovation, and engineering to drive long-term value. From operating complex businesses to backing breakthrough technologies, our mission is to build enduring businesses. Our team combines intelligent risk-taking, operational excellence, exceptional talent, and world-class computing capacity to create shareholder value.
Our company offers a dynamic environment where individuals have the freedom to lead companies toward bold achievements by embracing innovation, leveraging technology, and fostering differentiated business strategies. Our values are Integrity, Ability, and Energy, and the company aims to hire individuals who possess those qualities.
At NorthMark Strategies, we believe the future isn’t something to hope for, it’s something to build. We don’t just invest, we create. Bringing together strategic insight and technical horsepower to deliver outcomes that endure.
About the Role
We are looking for a Senior Cloud Architect to own the technical direction of our public cloud platforms. Reporting to the Director of Cloud Platform, you will be the senior technical authority across AWS and Azure. You will set architecture standards, design governance controls, and guide engineering teams in turning them into production-grade platforms.
The role spans the full architecture lifecycle. That covers discovery and design, implementation guidance, platform operationalization, and the documentation and enablement that let platforms scale beyond the people who built them. You will work across managed Kubernetes, cloud networking, security, and data platform architecture. You will also shape how AI tooling is embedded in engineering: not as a productivity add-on, but as a quality gate in the delivery pipeline.
Requirements
Architecture Standards & Governance
Define cloud architecture standards, reference architecture, and design principles across AWS and Azure
Design and enforce technical guardrails across multi-account AWS and multi-subscription Azure environments, using policy-as-code and compliance controls (e.g., AWS SCPs/RCPs, Azure Policy)
Translate industry frameworks (e.g., CAF, Well-Architected) into concrete technical controls and patterns
Design the tagging and cost-attribution architecture that underpins FinOps reporting
Present architecture direction, trade-offs, and technical risk to senior leadership alongside the Director
Platform Architecture
Architect multi-cloud landing zones and hub-and-spoke network topologies across AWS and Azure
Design Kubernetes platforms at scale on managed services (e.g., AKS, EKS), including cluster lifecycle, multi-tenancy, and workload scheduling
Lead cloud network architecture: inter-region and cross-cloud routing, private DNS, private endpoints, and connectivity to corporate networks (e.g., ExpressRoute, Direct Connect)
Integrate batch and workflow orchestration on Kubernetes with cloud-native service networking and modern workload identity patterns
Data Platform Architecture
Design cloud data platforms using layered (e.g., medallion) architecture across ingestion, transformation, and consumption
Enable distributed querying across curated data sources for engineering and analytical users
Define data access control, governance, and observability patterns
AI & Emerging Capabilities
Architect AI inference gateway infrastructure that provides centralized model routing, security controls, cost attribution, and observability
Design self-hosted, open-weight model inference on cloud GPU capacity, so AI workloads can run against sensitive data without exposure to third-party model providers
Design agentic AI workflows for engineering (deployment review, IaC PR validation, platform operations) that act as quality gates in the delivery pipeline
Technical Leadership & Enablement
Serve as the technical escalation point for the hardest platform problems
Mentor engineers through design reviews, pairing, and architecture…