Vice President, Data Platform

Accordion • Chicago, IL

7d • $112,500 - $200,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

Lead end-to-end delivery of modern data platforms for our clients—owning scope, schedule, budget, and outcomes. You’ll run agile delivery teams, guide medallion/lakehouse architectures, and partner with clients to translate business goals into scalable solutions on Snowflake, Azure & Databricks.

Requirements

• 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.
• BS/MS in CS, IS, Engineering, or equivalent experience.

Nice To Haves

• regulated industries, FinOps for data platforms, data privacy/compliance (GDPR/CCPA), and analytics enablement (Power BI/Fabric).
• PMP, PMI-ACP, or SAFe; Snowflake SnowPro; Microsoft Azure (DP-203, AZ-305) a plus.

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

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Executive