Enterprise Data Architect & Lakehouse Lead

Accenture PLC; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 87,000 - 254,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Life insurance

Long-term disability coverage

401(k) plan

Bonus opportunities

Paid holidays

Paid time off

Job summary

Accenture is seeking a senior Data Architect / Data Engineering Lead to guide enterprise data platform initiatives. You will set architectural direction, govern data pipelines, and mentor a team of data engineers across ingestion, transformation, and consumption layers.

The role requires deep experience in data architectures (Bronze-Silver-Gold), Databricks, Delta Lake, PySpark, and SQL, with a focus on scalable, auditable, and secure solutions. Travel may be required.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 8 years of enterprise data architecture, data engineering, and lakehouse implementation.
• Minimum of 5 years hands-on experience with Databricks, Delta Lake, PySpark, SQL, and modern cloud data platforms.
• Minimum of 5 years designing and governing production-grade data pipelines with idempotency, restartability, auditability, lineage, monitoring, and exception handling.
• Minimum of 4 years experience with mapping, reference, and master data, data standardization, and effective-dated design patterns.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent (minimum 12 years) work experience.

Responsibilities

• Provide architectural leadership for scalable, governed data solutions across ingestion, transformation, and consumption layers.
• Define and enforce data engineering standards, quality checks, and lineage for enterprise pipelines.
• Mentor engineers, review designs, and ensure alignment with governance and security requirements.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to translate business needs into robust data architecture patterns.

Skills

Data architecture

Data engineering

Leadership

Problem solving

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Databricks

Delta Lake

PySpark

SQL

Job description

Accenture is seeking a senior Data Architect / Data Engineering Lead to guide enterprise data platform initiatives. You will set architectural direction, govern data pipelines, and mentor a team of data engineers across ingestion, transformation, and consumption layers.

The role requires deep experience in data architectures (Bronze-Silver-Gold), Databricks, Delta Lake, PySpark, and SQL, with a focus on scalable, auditable, and secure solutions. Travel may be required.