VP, Data Solutions & AI Transformation

Accordion; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Accordion’s Data & AI team in London designs data foundations for value creation. As Vice President, Data Solutions, you’ll own architecture, data operating model and client relationships, guiding delivery with teams in India.

This role blends business impact with technical leadership, requiring strong stakeholder advisory and governance experience. Based in London with flexibility to work remotely 1-2 days weekly, you will lead data assessments, shape architecture options, and drive analytics

Qualifications

• Strong consulting skills gained in consulting or industry, including structured problem-solving and stakeholder advisory.
• Experience assessing data capabilities or diagnosing complex data problems, mapping systems and data flows.
• Ability to shape practical solutions from business needs and translate requirements into delivery briefs.
• Technical fluency in data architecture, engineering and modern platforms such as Snowflake, Databricks or Microsoft Fabric/Azure.
• Understanding analytics solutions, semantic models and KPI definitions.
• Practical understanding of data foundations for AI and agents, including metadata, lineage and data quality.
• Experience assessing or improving data governance, MDM or data quality practices.
• Clear client advisory and communication skills for workshops and presentations.
• Experience leading or coordinating distributed delivery teams across geographies.
• Ability to own defined workstreams, manage scope and delivery risks.
• 7+ years in consulting, data, analytics or related roles.
• Interest in private equity and portfolio company priorities.

Responsibilities

• Lead data assessments and diagnostics through stakeholder interviews and workshops.
• Turn business requests into clear problem statements, requirements and success metrics.
• Shape target architecture options with directors and engineering leads.
• Lead the delivery team in India across data engineering and analytics workstreams.
• Define analytics requirements, shared metrics and semantic definitions.
• Assess data readiness for AI and agents and define governance requirements.
• Develop data operating models and governance recommendations for client teams.
• Manage day-to-day client engagement, run working sessions and report progress.
• Produce assessment findings, delivery roadmaps and contribute to proposals.

Skills

Consulting skills

Data capability assessment

Solution architecture

Data platforms fluency

Analytics & KPIs

AI data foundations

Data governance

Client advisory

Lead delivery teams

Workstream ownership

PE domain interest

Tools

Snowflake

Databricks

Microsoft Fabric/Azure

Job description

Accordion’s Data & AI team in London designs data foundations for value creation. As Vice President, Data Solutions, you’ll own architecture, data operating model and client relationships, guiding delivery with teams in India.

This role blends business impact with technical leadership, requiring strong stakeholder advisory and governance experience. Based in London with flexibility to work remotely 1-2 days weekly, you will lead data assessments, shape architecture options, and drive analytics