Federal Data Architect - Secure, Scalable Data Ecosystems

Accenture Federal Services; Virginia (MN); On-site; USD 106,000 - 221,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture Federal Services is seeking a Data Architect to design and govern the organization’s data ecosystem for missions across defense, national security, public safety, civilian, and health programs.

The role will establish the enterprise data model, set standards for storage, ingestion, processing pipelines, and data access, ensuring data is discoverable, usable, and secure for advanced analytics and AI/ML at scale.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree (or 4 years of additional equivalent experience) in IT, Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Business Administration, Information Systems, Data Science, Software Engineering.
• 5 years of experience in data engineer or architecture.
• Active Secret, Top Secret, TS/SCI, or TS/SCI with Polygraph clearance required, depending on position.

Responsibilities

• Design and govern the enterprise data ecosystem.
• Establish the enterprise data model and standards for data storage.
• Design data ingestion, processing pipelines (ETL/ELT), and data access.
• Work with GRC and security teams to embed data governance, quality, and protection.
• Ensure data is findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable for analytics and AI/ML at scale.

Skills

Data architecture

Data modeling

ETL/ELT pipelines

Security collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree or 4 years equivalent in IT/CS/Data Science

Job description

Accenture Federal Services is seeking a Data Architect to design and govern the organization’s data ecosystem for missions across defense, national security, public safety, civilian, and health programs.

The role will establish the enterprise data model, set standards for storage, ingestion, processing pipelines, and data access, ensuring data is discoverable, usable, and secure for advanced analytics and AI/ML at scale.