Cloud & AI Platform Consulting

Enterprise-grade cloud architecture, data platform governance, and AI readiness for regulated industries.

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Capabilities

Platform architecture that ships, scales, and passes audit.

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Cloud Platform Architecture

Secure landing zone design on Azure and AWS. Private networking, identity governance, centralized logging, and egress controls. Delivered with evidence packs and implementation roadmaps.

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Data Platform Governance

Lakehouse governance across Databricks (Unity Catalog, lineage) and Snowflake (RBAC, dynamic masking). Data contracts, quality SLAs, and operational runbooks that teams actually follow.

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AI Readiness & GenAI

RAG pipelines with evaluation frameworks. Model-serving strategy across managed APIs, managed serving, and self-hosted options. Responsible AI guardrails for regulated settings.

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Security & Compliance

Architecture patterns for HIPAA, HITRUST, NIST 800-171, and CMMC. Zero Trust networking, PHI/PII controls, and audit-ready evidence capture across cloud platforms.

Modern data and AI stack.

Azure AWS GCP Databricks Snowflake Delta Lake Unity Catalog Python FastAPI OpenAI / Azure OpenAI RAG MLflow Docker Kubernetes Elasticsearch Private Endpoints Infrastructure as Code CI/CD

About

22+ years building mission-critical platforms.

Snowbrick LLC is the consulting practice of Jamal Natour, a Solutions Architect with over two decades of experience designing and delivering enterprise platforms across federal, healthcare, financial, and legal sectors.

Recently Director of IT and Principal Solutions Architect at Berkeley Research Group, where I built the firm's enterprise AI and data platform — 7 internal products serving 500+ professionals, generating $5M in annual revenue with 85% adoption and 99.9% SLOs.

Before BRG, I spent 18 years in federal technology delivering mission-critical systems for the Department of State, Department of Defense, and Department of Commerce, including enterprise search platforms and large-scale workflow systems.

Based in the Washington, DC metropolitan area. Available for consulting engagements and open to full-time opportunities.

Azure Solutions Architect Expert MS Electrical Engineering, UF Security+ SAFe Agilist Former TS/Secret Clearance

Let's talk.

Whether you need architecture guidance, a platform assessment, or want to discuss a full-time opportunity.