Senior Consultant, Data Platform

The role

You will lead end-to-end delivery of modern data platforms for clients. You will run agile delivery teams and guide medallion/lakehouse architectures on Snowflake, Azure, and Databricks.

What you will do

• Drive planning, execution, risk/issue management, RAID logs, dependencies, and executive status reporting
• Stand up and mature Scrum/Kanban ceremonies, backlog hygiene, velocity forecasting, and release management
• Ensure adherence to medallion patterns, data contracts, CI/CD for data, and governance/quality controls
• Orchestrate environments, security, and cost controls for Snowflake and Azure
• Serve as the day-to-day executive contact, run steering committees, and manage change requests
• Own SOW scope, staffing, and margin, and forecast and track budgets
• Coach PMs and tech leads and codify playbooks/templates
• Contribute to proposals and pre-sales as needed

Required qualifications

• 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)
• analytics enablement (Power BI/Fabric)
• BS/MS in CS, IS, Engineering, or equivalent experience
• PMP, PMI-ACP, or SAFe
• Snowflake SnowPro
• Microsoft Azure (DP-203, AZ-305)

Benefits

• benefits

Before you apply

• This position is not eligible for immigration sponsorship

About the company

Accordion is a high-growth, entrepreneurial firm and private equity’s value creation partner. It is headquartered in New York with 11 offices around the globe.