Data & Analytics Senior Director, Data Platform Data & Analytics LOCATIONS

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 togrow, come solvecomplexissues alongside1,600+ finance & technology experts ina supportive, collaborative environment.

Backedby premier private equity firms and headquartered in New York with 11officesaroundtheglobe, we are a high-growth, entrepreneurial firmlookingforpeoplewhowantto be part of buildingsomethinggreat. Come make your mark.

Accordion's Data & Analytics (D&A) team offers cutting-edge, intelligent solutions to a global clientele, leveraging a blend of domain knowledge, sophisticated technology tools, and deep analytics capabilities to tackle complex business challenges.

We partner with Private Equity clients and their Portfolio Companies across diverse sectors, including Retail, CPG, Healthcare, Media & Entertainment, Technology, and Logistics.

We deliver data and analytical solutions designed to streamline reporting capabilities and enhance business insights across vast and complex data sets ranging from Sales, Operations, Marketing, Pricing, Customer Strategies, and more.

This role can be based in any of our US office locations and is a hybrid role with the flexibility to work remotely 2 days a week. Ideal candidates should be local to the desired location.

This position is not eligible for immigration sponsorship.

Lead end-to-end delivery of modern data platforms - owning scope, schedule, budget, and outcomes. Run geographically diverse agile delivery teams, guide medallion/Lakehouse architectures, and translate client business goals into scalable solutions on Snowflake, Azure, and Databricks.

• Own end-to-end delivery of large, multi-workstream data platform programs - scope, timeline, budget, quality, risk, and business outcomes.
• Serve as senior client relationship manager - guiding executives through strategy, tradeoffs, change requests, and steering committees.
• Shape target-state architecture across Snowflake, Databricks, Microsoft Fabric/Azure, and adjacent tooling.
• Provide architectural stewardship: lakehouse/medallion patterns, data contracts, CI/CD for data, observability, governance, and lineage.
• Lead agile cross-functional teams (data engineering, analytics, platform ops); mature Scrum/Kanban practices and coordinate onshore/offshore delivery.
• Own commercial performance: SOW alignment, staffing, budget forecasting, margin, risk, and acceptance criteria.
• Contribute to practice growth - playbooks, accelerators, pre-sales support, proposals, and client opportunity development.
• Support pursuits: scoping, estimating, staffing, and executive-level storytelling; serve as technical authority in client workshops and due diligence.
• Drive business development (pipeline, proposals, account expansion) and support recruiting/mentorship as the practice scales.
• Travel to client sites as needed.

• 10+ years technology delivery experience, including 5+ years leading data platform/engineering/analytics transformation programs in consulting (required).
• Proven success managing $1M-$5M+ multi-workstream programs with distributed US/offshore teams and senior client stakeholders.
• Hands-on technical fluency:
  Snowflake (warehouses, RBAC, performance/cost tuning), Databricks and/or Microsoft Fabric, Azure data services (ADF, Synapse, ADLS, networking/security), and ingestion/transformation tooling (Fivetran; dbt a plus).
• Ability to credibly guide architecture and review technical decisions, not just manage…