Senior Data Practice Lead for Cloud Platforms

Accenture PLC; Dublin; Hybrid; EUR 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture PLC seeks a senior data practice leader to drive growth and maturity of its Microsoft Data practice. You will connect client priorities to target architectures, shaping enterprise data strategy and the architecture of complex Microsoft cloud data platforms.

You will lead design across ingestion, lakehouse, governance and data-serving capabilities, guiding multi-team delivery and client engagements across the Azure ecosystem.

Qualifications

• Excellent consulting, communication, commercial and people-leadership skills.
• Track record of leading teams and complex programmes, influencing executives and governing architecture at scale.
• Extensive experience leading enterprise data architecture and cloud-transformation initiatives within complex, multi-stakeholder environments.
• Deep understanding of data modelling, distributed data processing, integration, governance and analytical architecture.
• Deep expertise in Microsoft Fabric, Azure data platforms and modern cloud-native architectural patterns.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership across architecture and engineering capability.
• Guide clients in establishing data foundations for advanced analytics, ML and AI.
• Advise senior stakeholders and connect data foundations to analytics and AI use cases.
• Oversee architectural consistency and strategic alignment across engagements.
• Define current-state assessments, target architectures and roadmaps for enterprise data platforms.
• Lead design across ingestion, lakehouse, warehouse, semantic, master-data, governance and data-serving capabilities.
• Select patterns across Microsoft Fabric, Azure data services, Databricks and broader ecosystem.

Skills

Consulting excellence

Executive communication

People leadership

Programme leadership

Enterprise data architecture

Cloud data platforms

Microsoft Fabric

Azure data services

Modern cloud patterns

Tools

Databricks

Microsoft Fabric

Azure data services

Job description

Accenture PLC seeks a senior data practice leader to drive growth and maturity of its Microsoft Data practice. You will connect client priorities to target architectures, shaping enterprise data strategy and the architecture of complex Microsoft cloud data platforms.

You will lead design across ingestion, lakehouse, governance and data-serving capabilities, guiding multi-team delivery and client engagements across the Azure ecosystem.