Data Platform Architect — Hands-On, Secure Gov Cloud

Accenture-Federal-Services-2; Hill Air Force Base (UT); On-site; USD 124,000 - 246,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture Federal Services is seeking a Data Platform Architect to set the technical vision for a common data platform and broader mission cloud ecosystem. This hands‑on leadership role will shape architecture, governance, and delivery across defense, national security, and civilian missions.

You will design and implement data pipelines, establish quality and observability, and ensure security/compliance from the start while engaging government stakeholders and leading engineering teams in a

Qualifications

• Python development skills and familiarity with data processing, orchestration, and/or analysis tools.
• Experience working with senior stakeholders and/or leading engineering teams, adjusting depth/language as needed.
• Experience setting technical direction through influence, standards, and design leadership.

Responsibilities

• Own technical vision and roadmap for the data platform (data lake/lakehouse, ingestion, modeling, governance, analytics)
• Translate vision into design decisions, standards, and reference patterns for engineering
• Present and defend architecture positions to the Architecture Review Board; communicate approved decisions to the team
• Influence architectural direction beyond the data platform as the program matures
• Identify and retire technical debt with clear rationale
• Remain hands‑on: prototype, review code, build reference implementations, set engineering quality standards
• Design/build data pipelines and platform services in Python and related tools, focusing on performance, reliability, maintainability
• Establish data quality, lineage, and observability practices
• Ensure security and compliance requirements are met from the start
• Engage government customers and mission stakeholders to clarify direction and requirements
• Communicate technical vision, tradeoffs, and risks to senior stakeholders in actionable language
• Ensure technical team understands both what to build and why
• Represent the data platform in customer and partner discussions
• Document decisions, standards, patterns, and rationale for transparency and onboarding
• Contribute to and uphold engineering and architecture standards
• SAFe Lean‑Agile delivery with 2-week sprints
• DevSecOps with security/compliance built into the pipeline
• Decentralized command: teams own execution, technical leaders set direction and remove ambiguity
• Bonus points: turning unclear stakeholder direction into defensible technical requirements/designs
• Experience designing/delivering data lake, lakehouse, or large‑scale data platform solutions
• Experience with distributed data processing frameworks and/or modern open data formats
• Experience with architecture governance
• Experience supporting test, evaluation, or operational data workflows with large data collection/analysis
• Experience with data tagging, classification, and segregation in strict access control environments
• Experience delivering in DevSecOps pipelines with automated security/compliance controls
• Familiarity with MBSE and model‑driven approaches to systems/data design
• Experience in SAFe or similar scaled agile environments
• Experience mentoring engineers and raising technical capability without formal management

Skills

Python development

Stakeholder leadership

Technical direction & design

Job description

Accenture Federal Services is seeking a Data Platform Architect to set the technical vision for a common data platform and broader mission cloud ecosystem. This hands‑on leadership role will shape architecture, governance, and delivery across defense, national security, and civilian missions.

You will design and implement data pipelines, establish quality and observability, and ensure security/compliance from the start while engaging government stakeholders and leading engineering teams in a