Vice President, Data Platform

Overview

Accordion is a data & analytics-focused consulting partner for private equity, helping CFOs and sponsors drive end-to-end value creation through data, technology, and AI. We are headquartered in New York with 10 offices worldwide and 1,400+ finance & technology experts. This role is based in the US and is a hybrid position with remote work up to 2 days per week; ideal candidates should be local to the desired location. This position is not eligible for immigration sponsorship.

What You’ll Do

• Lead end-to-end delivery of modern data platforms for clients—owning scope, schedule, budget, and outcomes. Run agile delivery teams, guide medallion/lakehouse architectures, and translate business goals into scalable solutions on Snowflake, Azure & Databricks.
• Own program delivery: Drive planning, execution, risk/issue management, RAID logs, dependencies, and executive status reporting across multi-workstream data initiatives.
• Lead agile teams: Stand up and mature Scrum/Kanban ceremonies, backlog hygiene, velocity forecasting, and release management across data engineering, analytics, and platform ops.
• Architectural stewardship: Ensure adherence to medallion (bronze/silver/gold) patterns, data contracts, CI/CD for data, and governance/quality controls (DQ rules, lineage, observability).
• Cloud & platform delivery: Orchestrate environments, security, and cost controls for Snowflake and Azure (ADF/Fabric, Databricks, Synapse, Key Vault, Purview).
• Client leadership: Serve as the day-to-day executive contact; run steering committees, manage change requests, and drive stakeholder alignment and adoption.
• Commercials & quality: Own SOW scope, staffing, and margin; forecast and track budgets; enforce delivery standards and acceptance criteria tied to business KPIs.
• Enablement: Coach PMs and tech leads; codify playbooks/templates for repeatable delivery; contribute to proposals and pre-sales as needed.
• Travel to client sites as needed.

What You’ll Bring

• 5+ years of technology delivery leading data platform or analytics programs in consulting/professional services.
• Proven success managing $1M–$5M+ multi-workstream programs with distributed teams.
• Hands-on familiarity with Snowflake (warehouses, RBAC, performance/cost tuning) and Azure data services (ADF/Fabric, Databricks, Synapse, ADLS, networking & security).
• Strong command of agile delivery (Scrum/Kanban), Jira/Azure DevOps, release planning, and CI/CD for data (Git-based workflows, environments).
• Practical experience implementing medallion architectures and lakehouse patterns, data modeling, and data quality/observability.
• Stakeholder management at VP/C-suite level; crisp written/oral communication and executive reporting.
• Nice to have: regulated industries, FinOps for data platforms, data privacy/compliance (GDPR/CCPA), and analytics enablement (Power BI/Fabric).

Preferred Requirements

• BS/MS in CS, IS, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
• PMP, PMI-ACP, or SAFe; Snowflake SnowPro; Microsoft Azure (DP-203, AZ-305) a plus.

What Success Looks Like

• Programs delivered on-time/on-budget with measurable business outcomes (e.g., SLA improvements, cost per query reductions, faster time-to-insight).
• Stable, secure, and cost-efficient Snowflake/Azure platforms with clear operating models and playbooks.
• High client satisfaction (CSAT/NPS) and referenceable accounts.

Salary: The annual salary for this role ranges from $112,500 to $200,000 USD + benefits + bonus. Actual compensation packages are determined by factors such as 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 or individual submitting 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 party.