Data Platform Architect - Lead for Secure Data Lakes

Engg; Utah; On-site; USD 124,000 - 246,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture Federal Services seeks a Data Platform Architect to set the technical vision for a data lake/lakehouse and broader cloud ecosystem in a secure environment. This hands-on leadership role influences delivery teams and governance, shaping architecture across programs.

You will design data pipelines in Python, establish data quality and observability, ensure security and compliance, and engage with government stakeholders to clarify direction and requirements.

Qualifications

• Hands-on development/engineering experience (data architecture/platforms).
• 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.

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
• Stakeholder Engagement 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
• Documentation and Standards Document decisions, standards, patterns, and rationale for transparency and onboarding
• Contribute to and uphold engineering and architecture standards

Skills

Hands-on development

Data architecture

Python development

Stakeholder leadership

DevSecOps

Tools

Python

Job description

Accenture Federal Services seeks a Data Platform Architect to set the technical vision for a data lake/lakehouse and broader cloud ecosystem in a secure environment. This hands-on leadership role influences delivery teams and governance, shaping architecture across programs.

You will design data pipelines in Python, establish data quality and observability, ensure security and compliance, and engage with government stakeholders to clarify direction and requirements.