Senior Data Architect: Lakehouse & AI Governance

Accenture PLC; Beaverton (OR); On-site; USD 140,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture is seeking a Data Architect / Data Engineering Lead to guide enterprise data platform initiatives with architecture governance and scalable lakehouse patterns. This role emphasizes architectural direction over hands-on coding.

You will mentor engineers, review designs, and ensure production-grade data pipelines using Databricks, Delta Lake, and Unity Catalog, collaborating with business stakeholders for successful deliveries.

Qualifications

• Minimum 8 years of enterprise data architecture and data engineering experience.
• 5+ years with Databricks, Delta Lake, PySpark, SQL and cloud data platforms.
• 4+ years designing and governing production-grade data pipelines with data quality controls.

Responsibilities

• Lead scalable, governed data solutions across ingestion, transformation, and consumption layers.
• Define enterprise data architecture patterns and review business requirements for robust designs.
• Provide guidance on data modeling, standardization, and reusable framework design.
• Review designs for scalability, security, auditability, and maintainability; mentor engineers.
• Engage with stakeholders to communicate risks, tradeoffs, and delivery status.

Skills

Data architecture

Databricks

PySpark

SQL

Data governance

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Databricks

Delta Lake

Unity Catalog

Airflow

Job description

Accenture is seeking a Data Architect / Data Engineering Lead to guide enterprise data platform initiatives with architecture governance and scalable lakehouse patterns. This role emphasizes architectural direction over hands-on coding.

You will mentor engineers, review designs, and ensure production-grade data pipelines using Databricks, Delta Lake, and Unity Catalog, collaborating with business stakeholders for successful deliveries.