Accordion · 2 months ago
Director, Data Platform
New York
Full-time
Hybrid
Director/Executive
$170K/yr - $225K/yr
10+ years expAccordion is a private equity value creation partner that leverages data, technology, and AI to help clients drive value. The Director of Data Platform will lead the delivery of modern data platforms, manage agile teams, and ensure adherence to architectural standards while collaborating closely with clients to meet their business goals.
AccountingConsultingFinanceFinancial ServicesFinTech
No H1B
Responsibilities
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
Qualification
Required
10+ years of technology delivery with 5+ years 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
Preferred
BS/MS in CS, IS, Engineering, or equivalent experience
PMP, PMI-ACP, or SAFe; Snowflake SnowPro; Microsoft Azure (DP-203, AZ-305) a plus
Benefits
Benefits
Bonus
Company
Accordion
Accordion is a financial and technology consulting firm that offers technical accounting, financial planning, and analysis services.
1001-5000 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
unknownKey Investors
Charlesbank Capital PartnersFriedman Fleischer & Lowe (FFL)
2022-09-08Secondary Market
2018-10-10Private Equity
Leadership Team
Atul Aggarwal
President
Junaid Samnani
President, Finance & Technology Solutions
Recent News
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