Enterprise Data Architect for FAIR, AI-Ready Data

Accenture Federal Services; Arlington (VA); On-site; USD 106,300 - 221,100; Full time

Job summary

Accenture Federal Services in Arlington, VA seeks a senior data architect to design and govern the enterprise data ecosystem, establishing standards for storage and data models, and architecture for ingestion and processing pipelines. You will work with GRC and security to embed governance and data protection from the outset.

The role enables FAIR data for advanced analytics and AI/ML at scale, ensuring findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable data across the organization.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) in IT, cybersecurity, CS, IS, data science, or software engineering.
• 8 years of experience designing enterprise data architectures and models.

Responsibilities

• Design and govern the organization's data ecosystem and architecture.
• Establish enterprise data model and storage standards (data lakes, warehouses, databases).
• Design data ingestion and processing pipelines (ETL/ELT) and data access.
• Collaborate with GRC and security to embed governance, quality, and protection policies.
• Ensure data is findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable (FAIR) for analytics and AI/ML.

Skills

Data architecture design

Education

Bachelor’s degree (or 4 years of additional experience) in IT, Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Science, or Software Engineering.

Job description

Accenture Federal Services in Arlington, VA seeks a senior data architect to design and govern the enterprise data ecosystem, establishing standards for storage and data models, and architecture for ingestion and processing pipelines. You will work with GRC and security to embed governance and data protection from the outset.

The role enables FAIR data for advanced analytics and AI/ML at scale, ensuring findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable data across the organization.