Senior Data & Analytics Delivery Lead (Snowflake/Azure)

Accordion Partners; New York, Northern (NY, KY); Hybrid; USD 113,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote/hybrid flexibility

Bonus program

Job summary

Accordion Partners is seeking a senior Data & Analytics delivery lead to own end-to-end data platform initiatives for Private Equity clients. You will guide agile teams, shape medallion/lakehouse architectures, and translate business goals into scalable Snowflake, Azure, and Databricks solutions.

The role is based in the U.S., flexible to remote work two days per week from any US location; travel to client sites as needed; strong stakeholder management and executive communication are essential.

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, 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.
• Experience implementing medallion architectures and lakehouse patterns, data modeling, data quality/observability.

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 mature Scrum/Kanban ceremonies, backlog hygiene, velocity forecasting, and release management across data engineering, analytics, and platform ops.
• Architectural stewardship: ensure adherence to medallion patterns, data contracts, CI/CD for data, 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 day-to-day executive contact; run steering committees, manage change requests, 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/pre-sales as needed.
• Travel to client sites as needed

Skills

Leadership

Stakeholder management

Agile delivery

Executive communication

Data platform delivery

Education

BS/MS in CS/IS/Engineering

Tools

Snowflake

Azure

Databricks

Jira/Azure DevOps

Job description

Accordion Partners is seeking a senior Data & Analytics delivery lead to own end-to-end data platform initiatives for Private Equity clients. You will guide agile teams, shape medallion/lakehouse architectures, and translate business goals into scalable Snowflake, Azure, and Databricks solutions.

The role is based in the U.S., flexible to remote work two days per week from any US location; travel to client sites as needed; strong stakeholder management and executive communication are essential.