Cloud Architect

Please note: This position is not eligible for immigration sponsorship. 

We are the better way to work in finance. As private equity’s value creation partner, we sit at the heart of PE—where sponsors and CFOs meet. Through financial consulting rooted in data, technology, and AI, we help clients drive value—supporting the office of the CFO to drive end-to-end value creation.

If you crave challenging work and are looking to grow, come solve complex issues alongside 1,600+ finance & technology experts in a supportive, collaborative environment.

Backed by premier private equity firms and headquartered in New York with 11 offices around the globe, we are a high-growth, entrepreneurial firm looking for people who want to be part of building something great. Come make your mark.

Reporting to the Information Security and Infrastructure Manager, the Cloud Architect leads the architectural direction for Accordion's AWS and Azure environments. This role ensures the firm's cloud platforms are aligned across practice capabilities and back-office needs while establishing clear frameworks for security, scalability, resilience, and cost management in a multi-cloud environment.

This leader will partner closely with infrastructure, security, engineering, and practice-facing technology teams to shape cloud patterns that support both enterprise operations and development activities. The role requires enterprise architectural judgment, strong cross-platform knowledge, and the ability to guide globally distributed teams across the US, UK, and India. Travel will be required.

This position will ideally be based in one of our US offices and is a hybrid role with the flexibility to work remotely 2 days per week (also eligible for remote candidates).

This position is not eligible for immigration sponsorship.

Multi-Cloud Architecture

• Define target-state architecture and standards across AWS and Azure environments
• Ensure cloud patterns support both internal corporate platforms and practice-facing development needs
• Create reusable cloud frameworks for networking, compute, storage, identity, resilience, and platform operations

Alignment & Enablement

• Drive consistency across cloud capabilities, services, and architectural patterns used by different practices and central teams
• Partner with Security and DevSecOps to align architecture, guardrails, and deployment expectations
• Guide design decisions for cloud-native and hybrid solutions

Cost Optimization Governance

• Lead cloud cost optimization strategies, usage visibility, and architectural decisions that improve efficiency without weakening capability
• Help define standards for rightsizing, consumption governance, and cost-aware design

Reliability & Resilience

• Ensure cloud architecture supports disaster recovery, business continuity, and operational resilience requirements
• Influence monitoring, backup, failover, and recovery design patterns

• 10+ years of experience in cloud architecture, infrastructure architecture, or related enterprise technology roles
• Deep experience with AWS and Azure capabilities in complex production environments
• Strong understanding of cloud networking, security, resilience, automation, and cost optimization
• Experience building and governing standards in a multi-cloud environment
• Comfortability working across strategy, standards, and design detail
• Ability to work across infrastructure, engineering, security, and business-facing teams – you are a collaborative leader who improves consistency across diverse teams
• Consistently focused on scalable patterns rather than one-off solutions
• Bachelor's degree preferred; cloud certifications are a plus

• Excited to be part of a growing team, with a focus on driving future growth
• Passionate about delivering exceptional client service
• Knowledgeable about the relationship between Private Equity sponsors and their portfolio companies, particularly within the office of the CFO
• Willing to get your hands dirty in the details of a project while simultaneously seeing the whole picture
• Comfortable managing projects with multiple complex workstreams while also focused on your single workstream (you are managing and doing)
• A self-starter with a strong work ethic
• Full of entrepreneurial spirit and comfortable in a fluid, flat organization
• Able to effectively communicate complex issues and solutions, and raise issues to senior team members when necessary
• A team player, able to work with team members across all levels
• Someone who enjoys mentoring others and doing meaningful work
• A leader of others; you lead by example

The annual salary for this role ranges from: $150,000 to $180,000 + benefits + bonus.

Actual compensation packages are determined by evaluating a wide array of factors unique to each candidate, including but not limited to geographic location, skill set, years and depth of experience, education, certifications, cost of labor and internal equity.

Accordion is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills.  We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, marital status, age, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic information, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, or any other status protected under federal, state, or local law.

Please note that as per Accordion policy, we do not accept unsolicited resumes from third-party recruiters unless such recruiters are engaged to provide candidates for a specified opening and in alignment with our inclusive diversity values. Any employment agency, person or entity that submits an unsolicited resume does so with the understanding that Accordion will have the right to hire that applicant at its discretion without any fee owed to the submitting employment agency, person or entity.

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