Senior Data Architect

Accenture Australia; City of Melbourne; On-site; AUD 170,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture Australia is seeking a Senior Data Architect to design modernisation and migration paths for large enterprise data estates in the APAC region, with a focus on AI-enabled transformations. You will lead the agentic conversion of legacy schemas, code, and pipelines under human-in-the-loop governance.

You will engage with executive and technical stakeholders, guiding delivery teams to implement scalable data platforms and governance foundations across cloud and modern data platforms.

Responsibilities

• Design end-to-end modernisation and migration paths for large enterprise data estates.
• Lead the agentic conversion of legacy code, schemas, and data pipelines with human-in-the-loop control gates to accelerate transformation while preserving governance.
• Architect data platforms that are AI-ready by design with data quality, lineage, and governance foundations.
• Define and govern architectural patterns, standards, and reference architectures across cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and modern data platforms (Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery).
• Design and deliver Data Product architectures aligned to data mesh, data lakehouse, and domain-driven principles.
• Collaborate with C-suite, CDOs, and senior technology leaders to translate modernisation strategy into architectural decisions with measurable outcomes.

Job description

About The Centre For Advanced Data APAC

The Centre for Advanced Data (C4AD) is Accenture's specialist centre of excellence that sets the architecture standard for modern, AI-ready data estates across APAC, and mobilises the talent to deliver them at scale.

About The Centre For Advanced Data APAC

The Centre for Advanced Data (C4AD) is Accenture's specialist centre of excellence that sets the architecture standard for modern, AI-ready data estates across APAC, and mobilises the talent to deliver them at scale.

The C4AD operates across three core disciplines: Master Data Architecture, Knowledge Engineering, and Data Products. Every practitioner in the C4AD is expected to apply agentic and generative techniques as the default way of working, not as an add-on. The centre supports large-scale data and AI transformation programmes across the region, ranging from enterprise data modernisation to AI-ready platform builds.

Job Description

Join the Centre for Advanced Data APAC as a Senior Data Architect, where you will design modernisation and migration paths for large enterprise data estates and lead the agentic conversion of legacy schemas, code, and pipelines with human-in-the-loop control gates. The goal is to rearchitect how data is structured, governed, and activated, so that AI can be scaled reliably across it.

You will engage across executive and technical stakeholder communities, operating as a trusted authority on data modernisation strategy and guiding delivery teams through the full scope of enterprise transformation.

Project Description / Key Responsibilities

• Design end-to-end modernisation and migration paths for large enterprise data estates, including legacy schema rationalisation, pipeline redesign, and target state architecture definition.
• Lead the agentic conversion of legacy code, schemas, and data pipelines, applying LLM-assisted automation with human-in-the-loop control gates to accelerate transformation without sacrificing quality or governance.
• Architect data platforms that are AI-ready by design, establishing the data quality, lineage, semantic enrichment, and governance foundations that make AI trustworthy and scalable.
• Define and govern architectural patterns, standards, and reference architectures across cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and modern data platforms (Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery).
• Design and deliver Data Product architectures aligned to data mesh, data lakehouse, and domain-driven principles.
• Collaborate with C-suite, CDOs, and senior technology leaders to translate modernisation strategy into architectural decisions with clear, measurable outcomes.