Data & AI Engineer: Cloud Data Platform & GenAI

Accenture; Glasgow; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture in Glasgow is seeking a Data & AI Engineer at Specialist/Consultant level to join our AI-driven delivery teams. You will build and operate cloud data and platform solutions across Azure, AWS, GCP, Databricks, Snowflake, and related tech, designing scalable pipelines and AI-assisted workflows.

Working with architects, product engineers and business stakeholders, you’ll apply GenAI tooling to accelerate delivery while upholding strong engineering fundamentals, governance and security.

Qualifications

• Cloud engineering across one or more of: Azure, AWS, GCP, Databricks, Microsoft Fabric or Snowflake
• Python and SQL, with strong engineering fundamentals
• Batch and/or st

Responsibilities

• Building and operating cloud data and platform solutions across modern cloud and data platforms including Azure, AWS, GCP, Databricks, Microsoft Fabric and Snowflake
• Developing and maintaining scalable batch and streaming data pipelines, applying ETL/ELT patterns to ingest, validate, normalise, cleanse and transform data at scale
• Building and supporting cloud platform infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform, Bicep or CloudFormation, contributing to the automated provisioning and management of cloud environments
• Implementing CI/CD pipelines for data and platform solutions using Git, Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions, including AI-assisted approaches to automated testing and documentation as part of standard delivery practice
• Applying data modelling principles - including dimensional/Kimball, medallion architecture and source-to-target mapping - using AI tooling to draft and iterate models, with the ability to critically review outputs for correctness and fitness for purpose
• Implementing data quality, lineage, observability and monitoring capabilities, applying automation and AI-assisted tooling to build scalable, self-describing pipelines and platforms
• Supporting cloud platform operations including networking, identity and access management, security fundamentals and policy adherence
• Using GenAI and AI-assisted development tools to accelerate engineering delivery - writing, testing and documenting with AI assistance and applying engineering judgement to validate and correct generated outputs
• Developing a working understanding of agentic concepts - including how autonomous and human-in-the-loop AI systems interact with data and platform infrastructure - to inform how you design and build solutions that are fit for agentic consumption
• Collaborating with architects, product engineers and business stakeholders to understand requirements and contribute to solutions that meet both technical and business needs

Skills

Cloud engineering experience

Python and SQL

Batch processing

Tools

Azure

AWS

GCP

Databricks

Microsoft Fabric

Snowflake

Python

SQL

Job description

Accenture in Glasgow is seeking a Data & AI Engineer at Specialist/Consultant level to join our AI-driven delivery teams. You will build and operate cloud data and platform solutions across Azure, AWS, GCP, Databricks, Snowflake, and related tech, designing scalable pipelines and AI-assisted workflows.

Working with architects, product engineers and business stakeholders, you’ll apply GenAI tooling to accelerate delivery while upholding strong engineering fundamentals, governance and security.