Accordion Partners

Title: Manager, Quality Engineering & AI Validation Location: Atlanta; Boston; Charlotte; Chicago; Dallas; Los Angeles; New York; San Francisco Hybrid Job Description: Please note: This position is not eligible for immigration sponsorship. Company Overview We are the better way to work in finance. As private equity’s value creation partner, we sit at the heart of PE—where sponsors and CFOs meet. Through financial consulting rooted in data, technology, and AI, we help clients drive value—supporting the office of the CFO to drive end-to-end value creation. If you crave challenging work and are looking to grow, come solve complex issues alongside 1,600+ finance & technology experts in a supportive, collaborative environment. Backed by premier private equity firms and headquartered in New York with 11 offices around the globe, we are a high-growth, entrepreneurial firm looking for people who want to be part of building something great. Come make your mark. Manager, Quality Engineering and AI Validation The Manager of Quality Engineering and AI Validation leads Accordion's centralized Quality Engineering and AI Validation function across software delivery pods. This impactful role will be critical in owning the quality operating model, release-readiness standards, test strategy, AI validation framework, and quality metrics used to support both conventional software and AI-enabled solutions. Above all, this leader will ensure quality is designed into delivery from the start, not inspected in at the end. This position will ideally be based in one of our US offices and is a hybrid role with the flexibility to work remotely 2 days per week (also eligible for remote candidates). This position is not eligible for immigration sponsorship. What You’ll Do: Quality Strategy & Governance - Define the firm-wide quality strategy, release gates, and validation standards across development pods - Establish a risk-based quality model for traditional software and AI-enabled workflows - Define when pod-level validation is sufficient and when independent QA validation is required AI Validation Leadership - Build and operationalize the QA approach for AI-led products, including benchmark datasets, scoring rubrics, regression comparisons, and grounded-output validation - Establish testing expectations for instruction adherence, consistency, business correctness, control compliance, and hallucination risk - Partner with Engineering and Product leaders on quality implications of prompt, model, workflow, and tooling changes - Team Leadership - Lead and develop quality engineers, AI quality analysts, and domain-oriented QA resources - Improve the maturity of automation, evaluation routines, test evidence standards, and release discipline - Create a scalable central model that supports pods without becoming a bottleneck Finance & Risk Alignment - Partner with Finance and practice SMEs to ensure solutions are validated against real business use, materiality, and control expectations - Ensure high-risk workflows receive the right level of domain review before production release Production Quality - Define the framework for production quality monitoring, including escaped defects, output-quality degradation, reviewer overrides, and control failures - Create visibility into quality trends, readiness, and recurring failure patterns for Engineering and leadership You Have: - 8+ years of QA, software testing, or quality engineering experience, including team leadership – you are a builder of quality systems and operating models - Deep fluency in both engineering quality and business impact - Experience building test strategy, release-readiness processes, and automation programs in modern software environments - Experience supporting AI-enabled applications, workflow automation, data products, or decision-support systems - Strong understanding of functional, integration, regression, API, and data validation approaches - Ability to translate business-critical finance workflows into quality controls and release criteria - Comfortability asking tough questions about readiness, risk, and evidence - Strong communication skills and credibility with Engineering, Product, and business stakeholders – you are structured, pragmatic, and highly credible - Consistent focus on trust, traceability, and scalable execution - Bachelor's degree preferred You Are: - Excited to be part of a growing team, with a focus on driving future growth - Passionate about delivering exceptional client service - Knowledgeable about the relationship between Private Equity sponsors and their portfolio companies, particularly within the office of the CFO - Willing to get your hands dirty in the details of a project while simultaneously seeing the whole picture - Comfortable managing projects with multiple complex workstreams while also focused on your single workstream (you are managing and doing) - A self-starter with a strong work ethic - Full of entrepreneurial spirit and comfortable in a fluid, flat organization - Able to effectively communicate complex issues and solutions, and raise issues to senior team members when necessary - A team player, able to work with team members across all levels - Someone who enjoys mentoring others and doing meaningful work - A leader of others; you lead by example The annual salary for this role ranges from: $165,000 to $205,000 + benefits + bonus. Actual compensation packages are determined by evaluating a wide array of factors unique to each candidate, including but not limited to geographic location, skill set, years and depth of experience, education, certifications, cost of labor and internal equity. Accordion is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, marital status, age, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical​​​ condition, pregnancy, genetic information, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or ​expression, veteran status, or any other status protected under federal, state, or local law.

Title: AWS Specialist Location: Atlanta; Boston; Charlotte; Chicago; Dallas; Los Angeles; New York; San Francisco Job Description: Please note: This position is not eligible for immigration sponsorship. Company Overview We are the better way to work in finance. As private equity&rsquo;s value creation partner, we sit at the heart of PE&mdash;where sponsors and CFOs meet. Through financial consulting rooted in data, technology, and AI, we help clients drive value&mdash;supporting the office of the CFO to drive end-to-end value creation. If you crave challenging work and are looking to grow, come solve complex issues alongside 1,600+ finance & technology experts in a supportive, collaborative environment. Backed by premier private equity firms and headquartered in New York with 11 offices around the globe, we are a high-growth, entrepreneurial firm looking for people who want to be part of building something great. Come make your mark. AWS Specialist Reporting to the Information Security and Infrastructure Manager, the AWS Specialist designs, deploys, and optimizes AWS services and workflows across Accordion's enterprise and practice-supporting environments. This role brings deep hands-on expertise across services such as EC2, S3, EKS, and IAM and helps ensure AWS capabilities are secure, scalable, resilient, and cost-aware. The role partners closely with cloud engineering, security, and development teams across the US, UK, and India. Travel will be required. This position will ideally be based in one of our US offices and is a hybrid role with the flexibility to work remotely 2 days per week (also eligible for remote candidates). This position is not eligible for immigration sponsorship. What You'll Do: AWS Platform Engineering - Design, deploy, and optimize AWS workloads and supporting platform services - Support architecture and engineering decisions across EC2, S3, EKS, IAM, and related AWS capabilities Security & Reliability - Help implement secure configuration, access controls, resilience, and operational standards for AWS environments - Support backup, failover, monitoring, and recovery readiness Optimization & Automation - Improve automation, provisioning speed, and infrastructure consistency through tooling and repeatable engineering patterns - Partner on usage optimization and cost-aware design decisions Cross-Functional Delivery - Work with infrastructure, security, and development teams to support enterprise platforms and practice development activities running on AWS</li> You Have: - 5+ years of experience designing and supporting AWS environments in production - Strong hands-on knowledge of AWS services including EC2, S3, EKS, IAM, and related infrastructure capabilities - Experience with automation, infrastructure as code, and secure cloud operations - Comfortability with troubleshooting, optimizing, and improving AWS environments, with a focus on scalable, secure, and reliable outcomes - Ability to work across engineering, security, and operational teams &ndash; you are a strong collaborator across technical teams - Bachelor's degree preferred; AWS certifications are a plus You Are: - Excited to be part of a growing team, with a focus on driving future growth - Passionate about delivering exceptional client service - Knowledgeable about the relationship between Private Equity sponsors and their portfolio companies, particularly within the office of the CFO - Willing to get your hands dirty in the details of a project while simultaneously seeing the whole picture - Comfortable managing projects with multiple complex workstreams while also focused on your single workstream (you are managing and doing) - A self-starter with a strong work ethic - Full of entrepreneurial spirit and comfortable in a fluid, flat organization - Able to effectively communicate complex issues and solutions, and raise issues to senior team members when necessary - A team player, able to work with team members across all levels - Someone who enjoys mentoring others and doing meaningful work - A leader of others; you lead by example The annual salary for this role ranges from: $140,000 to $165,000 + benefits + bonus. Actual compensation packages are determined by evaluating a wide array of factors unique to each candidate, including but not limited to geographic location, skill set, years and depth of experience, education, certifications, cost of labor and internal equity. Accordion is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, marital status, age, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic information, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, or any other status protected under federal, state, or local law. Please note that as per Accordion policy, we do not accept unsolicited resumes from third-party recruiters unless such recruiters are engaged to provide candidates for a specified opening and in alignment with our inclusive diversity values. Any employment agency, person or entity that submits an unsolicited resume does so with the understanding that Accordion will have the right to hire that applicant at its discretion without any fee owed to the submitting employment agency, person or entity.

Title: Data Architect Location: Atlanta, Boston, Charlotte, Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco Job Description: Please note: This position is not eligible for immigration sponsorship. We are the better way to work in finance. As private equity&rsquo;s value creation partner, we sit at the heart of PE&mdash;where sponsors and CFOs meet. Through financial consulting rooted in data, technology, and AI, we help clients drive value&mdash;supporting the office of the CFO to drive end-to-end value creation. If you crave challenging work and are looking to grow, come solve complex issues alongside 1,600+ finance & technology experts in a supportive, collaborative environment. Backed by premier private equity firms and headquartered in New York with 11 offices around the globe, we are a high-growth, entrepreneurial firm looking for people who want to be part of building something great. Come make your mark. Data Architect The Data Architect defines data models, integration patterns, governance alignment, and information flow across solutions and platforms. This impactful role will be critical in ensuring data is structured and connected in a way that supports reliable operations, analytics, and AI-enabled capabilities. This position will ideally be based in one of our US offices and is a hybrid role with the flexibility to work remotely 2 days per week (also eligible for remote candidates). This position is not eligible for immigration sponsorship. What You&rsquo;ll Do: Data Design - Define conceptual and logical data models for platforms, integrations, and analytics use cases - Set standards for data flow, master data handling, metadata, and integration design - Partner with Product and Engineering to ensure data structures support operational and analytical needs Governance & Integration - Align application and platform designs to data governance requirements and enterprise standards - Establish patterns for data quality, lineage, access, and stewardship across critical workflows - Support data architecture decisions related to reporting, AI use cases, and system interoperability Enablement & Improvement - Review data-heavy solution designs and identify risks early - Document and evolve target-state data architecture principles - Help teams improve how they design for reusability, quality, and cross-platform consistency You Have: - 8+ years of data architecture, data modeling, or enterprise data design experience &ndash; you are a disciplined architect who values clarity, lineage, and quality - Strong knowledge of data integration, data warehousing, APIs, and data governance concepts - Experience supporting operational systems as well as reporting and analytics use cases and comfortability connecting operational systems to broader information strategy - Commitment to focusing on data as an enterprise asset rather than a project byproduct - Ability to work across technical and business stakeholders while remaining analytical, pragmatic, and highly collaborative - Bachelor's degree required You Are: - Excited to be part of a growing team, with a focus on driving future growth - Passionate about delivering exceptional client service - Knowledgeable about the relationship between Private Equity sponsors and their portfolio companies, particularly within the office of the CFO - Willing to get your hands dirty in the details of a project while simultaneously seeing the whole picture - Comfortable managing projects with multiple complex workstreams while also focused on your single workstream (you are managing and doing) - A self-starter with a strong work ethic - Full of entrepreneurial spirit and comfortable in a fluid, flat organization - Able to effectively communicate complex issues and solutions, and raise issues to senior team members when necessary - A team player, able to work with team members across all levels - Someone who enjoys mentoring others and doing meaningful work - A leader of others; you lead by example The annual salary for this role ranges from: $170,000 to $225,000 + benefits + bonus. Actual compensation packages are determined by evaluating a wide array of factors unique to each candidate, including but not limited to geographic location, skill set, years and depth of experience, education, certifications, cost of labor and internal equity. Accordion is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, marital status, age, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical​​​ condition, pregnancy, genetic information, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or ​expression, veteran status, or any other status protected under federal, state, or local law. Please note that as per Accordion policy, we do not accept unsolicited resumes from third-party recruiters unless such recruiters are engaged to provide candidates for a specified opening and in alignment with our inclusive diversity values. Any employment agency, person or entity that submits an unsolicited resume does so with the understanding that Accordion will have the right to hire that applicant at its discretion without any fee owed to the submitting employment agency, person or entity. #LI-HA1