Senior Director, Data Platform

The role

The Senior Director, Data Platform leads end-to-end delivery of modern data platform programs. This person manages scope, budget, and outcomes while guiding agile teams and shaping target-state architectures.

What you will do

• Own end-to-end delivery of large, multi-workstream data platform programs
• Serve as senior client relationship manager for executives
• Shape target-state architecture across Snowflake, Databricks, Microsoft Fabric/Azure, and adjacent tooling
• Provide architectural stewardship for lakehouse/medallion patterns, data contracts, CI/CD, observability, governance, and lineage
• Lead agile cross-functional teams and coordinate onshore/offshore delivery
• Own commercial performance including SOW alignment, staffing, budget forecasting, margin, risk, and acceptance criteria
• Contribute to practice growth through playbooks, accelerators, pre-sales support, and proposals
• Support pursuits through scoping, estimating, staffing, and executive-level storytelling
• Drive business development and support recruiting/mentorship

Required qualifications

• 10+ years technology delivery experience
• 5+ years leading data platform/engineering/analytics transformation programs in consulting
• Proven success managing $1M–$5M+ multi-workstream programs with distributed US/offshore teams and senior client stakeholders
• Hands-on technical fluency in Snowflake (warehouses, RBAC, performance/cost tuning)
• Hands-on technical fluency in Databricks and/or Microsoft Fabric
• Hands-on technical fluency in Azure data services (ADF, Synapse, ADLS, networking/security)
• Hands-on technical fluency in ingestion/transformation tooling
• Ability to guide architecture and review technical decisions
• Practical expertise in lakehouse/medallion architectures, governance, data modeling, and data quality/observability
• Strong agile delivery skills (Scrum/Kanban, Jira/Azure DevOps, CI/CD for data, Git workflows)
• Strong executive communication with VP/C-suite/sponsor-level stakeholders
• Strong commercial instincts

Nice to have

• dbt
• regulated industries
• FinOps for data platforms
• GDPR/CCPA
• Power BI/Fabric
• PE-backed environments
• Office of the CFO transformations
• broader AI-led value creation work
• BS/MS in CS, IS, Engineering, adjacent technical degree (Math, Physics, etc.), or equivalent experience
• MBA

Benefits

• benefits

Before you apply

• This position is not eligible for immigration sponsorship

About the company

Accordion is a private equity value creation partner providing financial consulting rooted in data, technology, and AI. The firm is headquartered in New York with 11 offices around the globe.