Data & Analytics Director — Cloud, AI & Data Platforms

Accordion Partners; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 170,000 - 225,000; Full time

Job summary

Accordion Partners is seeking a senior Data & Analytics leader to drive end-to-end data platform delivery for clients, owning scope, schedule, budget, and outcomes. You will lead agile teams, shape medallion/lakehouse architectures, and partner with clients to translate business goals into scalable Snowflake and Azure solutions.

The role emphasizes executive communication, program governance, and cross-functional collaboration across data engineering, analytics, and platform operations, with

Qualifications

• 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).
• Strong command of agile delivery (Scrum/Kanban), Jira/Azure DevOps, release planning, and CI/CD for data.
• 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: FinOps for data platforms, data privacy/compliance (GDPR/CCPA), and analytics enablement (Power BI/Fabric).

Responsibilities

• Own program delivery: planning, execution, risk/issue management, RAID logs, dependencies, and executive status reporting.
• Lead agile teams: stand up Scrum/Kanban ceremonies, backlog hygiene, velocity forecasting, and release management.
• Architectural stewardship: medallion patterns, data contracts, CI/CD for data, governance/quality controls.
• Cloud & platform delivery: environments, security, and cost controls for Snowflake and Azure.
• Client leadership: day-to-day executive contact; run steering committees and manage change requests.
• Commercials & quality: SOW scope, staffing, budgets, and delivery standards tied to KPIs.
• Enablement: coach PMs/tech leads; codify playbooks/templates; contribute to proposals/pre-sales.
• Travel to client sites as needed.

Skills

Technology delivery leadership

Data platform programs

Agile delivery

Stakeholder management at VP/C-suite

Jira/Azure DevOps

Education

BS/MS in CS/IS/Engineering

PMI/SAFe & Azure certs

Tools

Snowflake

Azure data services

Databricks

Synapse

CI/CD for data

Job description

Accordion Partners is seeking a senior Data & Analytics leader to drive end-to-end data platform delivery for clients, owning scope, schedule, budget, and outcomes. You will lead agile teams, shape medallion/lakehouse architectures, and partner with clients to translate business goals into scalable Snowflake and Azure solutions.

The role emphasizes executive communication, program governance, and cross-functional collaboration across data engineering, analytics, and platform operations, with