Technical Director - Data Management

Company Overview

Accordion works at the intersection of sponsors and management teams throughout every stage of the investment lifecycle, providing hands-on, execution-focused support to elevate data and analytics capabilities. So, what does it mean to work at Accordion? It means joining 1,000+ analytics, data science, finance & technology experts in a high-growth, agile, and entrepreneurial environment while transforming how portfolio companies drive value. It also means making your mark on Accordion’s future—by embracing a culture rooted in collaboration and a firm-wide commitment to building something great, together.

Headquartered in New York City with 10 offices worldwide, Accordion invites you to join our journey.

Data & Analytics (Accordion | Data & Analytics)

Accordion's Data & Analytics (D&A) team delivers cutting-edge, intelligent solutions to a global clientele, leveraging a blend of domain knowledge, sophisticated technology tools, and deep analytics capabilities to tackle complex business challenges.

We partner with Private Equity clients and their Portfolio Companies across diverse sectors, including Retail, CPG, Healthcare, Media & Entertainment, Technology, and Logistics.

D&A team delivers data and analytical solutions designed to streamline reporting capabilities and enhance business insights across vast and complex data sets ranging from Sales, Operations, Marketing, Pricing, Customer Strategies, and more.

Role overview: 

Accordion is looking for a Technical Director. He/she will be responsible for the design, development, 

configuration/deployment, and maintenance of the above technology stack. He/she must have in-depth understanding of various tools & technologies in the above domain to design and implement robust and scalable solutions which address client current and future requirements at optimal costs. The Technical Director should be able to evaluate existing architecture and recommend way to upgrade and improve the performance of architecture – both on-premises and cloud-based solutions. A successful Technical Director should possess strong working business knowledge, familiarity with multiple tools and techniques along with industry standards and best practices in Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing environment. He/she should have strong organizational, critical thinking, and communication skills.

What You will do: 

The roles and responsibilities of Technical Director – Data Management will include the below:

• Partners with clients to understand their business and create comprehensive business requirements.

• Develop end-to-end Business Intelligence framework based on requirements including recommending appropriate architecture (on-premises or cloud-based), analytics and reporting.

• Work closely with the business and technology teams to guide in solution development and implementation.

• Work closely with the business teams to arrive at methodologies to develop KPIs and Metrics.

• Work with Project Manager in developing and executing project plans within assigned schedule and timeline.

• Develop standard reports and functional dashboards based on business requirements.

• Conduct training programs and knowledge transfer sessions to junior developers when needed. Recommend improvements to provide optimum reporting solutions.

• Curiosity to learn new tools and technologies to provide futuristic solutions for clients.

Ideally, you have: 

• Undergraduate degree (B.E/B.Tech.) from tier-1/tier-2 colleges are preferred.

• More than 7 years of experience in related field.

• Proven expertise in SQL Server (SSIS, SSAS and SSRS)

• In-depth knowledge of databases (SQL Server, MySQL, Oracle etc.) and data warehouse (any one of Azure Synapse, AWS Redshift, Google BigQuery, Snowflake etc.)

• In-depth knowledge of business intelligence tools (any one of Power BI, Tableau, Qlik, DOMO, Looker etc.)

• Good understanding of either Azure (OR) AWS:

Azure (Data Factory & Pipelines, SQL Database & Managed Instances, DevOps, Logic Apps, Analysis Services) or AWS (Glue, Redshift, RDS, QuickSight etc.)

• Proven abilities to take on initiative and be innovative.

• Analytical mind with problem solving attitude.

Why Explore a Career at Accordion:

• High growth environment: Semi-annual performance management and promotion cycles coupled with a strong meritocratic culture, enables fast track to leadership responsibility.

• Cross Domain Exposure: Interesting and challenging work streams across industries and domains that always keep you excited, motivated, and on your toes.

• Entrepreneurial Environment: Intellectual freedom to make decisions and own them. We expect you to spread your wings and assume larger responsibilities.

• Fun culture and peer group: Non-bureaucratic and fun working environment; Strong peer environment that will challenge you and accelerate your learning curve.

• Other benefits for full time employees: 

• Health and wellness programs that include employee health insurance covering immediate family members and parents, term life insurance for employees, free health camps for employees, discounted health services (including vision, dental) for employee and family members, free doctor’s consultations, counsellors, etc.

• Corporate Meal card options for ease of use and tax benefits.

• Work dinners, team lunches, company sponsored team outings and celebrations.

• Reimbursement support for travel to office, as and when promulgated by the Company. 

• Cab reimbursement for women employees beyond a certain time of the day.

• Robust leave policy to support work-life balance. Specially designed leave structure to support woman employees for maternity and related requests.

• Reward and recognition platform to celebrate professional and personal milestones.

• A positive & transparent work environment including various employee engagement and employee benefit initiatives to support personal and professional learning and development.