Cloud Data Architect for Federal Analytics & Pipelines

Accenture PLC; Honolulu (HI); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture Federal Services seeks a Pipeline Architect to design, build, and maintain scalable data pipelines using Databricks, Spark, Python, and SQL, supporting analytics across defense, national security and civilian programs.

You will collaborate with data science, analytics, and business units to deliver data solutions, ensure data quality, governance, and observability, and leverage AWS services for cloud-native deployments. US citizenship is required; security clearance is a plus.

Qualifications

• Experience building end-to-end data pipelines on modern platforms.
• Proficiency with Python and SQL in data processing tasks.
• Hands-on experience with Databricks, Spark, and cloud-native ETL.
• US Citizenship required; security considerations may apply.
• Data engineering certifications are a plus.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain scalable end-to-end data pipelines.
• Develop efficient data processing and transformation workflows to support analytics.
• Integrate diverse data sources (APIs, databases, cloud storage) into unified datasets.
• Collaborate with data science, analytics, and business teams to align with goals.
• Implement validation, monitoring, and observability for data quality.
• Contribute to data governance, security, and automation initiatives.
• Leverage AWS services (S3, Glue, Lambda, Redshift) to deploy solutions.
• Work with cloud data warehousing technologies (Redshift, Snowflake, BigQuery).

Skills

Data pipelines

Databricks

Spark / PySpark

Python

SQL

AWS services

Data governance

Data quality

Team collaboration

Tools

Snowflake

Redshift

AWS Glue

Google Dataflow

NiFi

Job description

Accenture Federal Services seeks a Pipeline Architect to design, build, and maintain scalable data pipelines using Databricks, Spark, Python, and SQL, supporting analytics across defense, national security and civilian programs.

You will collaborate with data science, analytics, and business units to deliver data solutions, ensure data quality, governance, and observability, and leverage AWS services for cloud-native deployments. US citizenship is required; security clearance is a plus.