Senior Data Engineer Lead - Cloud Pipelines & Automation

Accenture Federal Services; Virginia (MN); On-site; USD 161,000 - 307,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture Federal Services is seeking a Data Engineer Team Lead to guide a skilled group of data engineers in building and maintaining critical data pipelines for DoD missions. You will set technical direction, promote reusable templates, and ensure scalable, cost-efficient data solutions through modern engineering practices.

You will champion governance, IaC standards, and automation while collaborating with architects to advance pipeline technologies such as Delta Live Tables and GPUs for

Qualifications

• 10+ years of data engineering or software engineering experience.
• Expert-level Python, SQL, Spark or PySpark.
• Deep experience with AWS or Azure and data platforms such as Databricks, Palantir, Snowflake.
• Demonstrated experience leading projects.
• US Citizenship (no dual citizenship).

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and manage a team of data engineers working on new pipeline development and operations & maintenance (O&M).
• Drive the technical strategy for the data pipeline ecosystem, ensuring stability, scalability, and efficiency.
• Enforce the use of reusable pipeline templates, automated monitoring patterns, and Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) deployment standards established by the architecture team.
• Oversee the development of new data pipelines using modern, modular patterns like Databricks Delta Live Tables.
• Direct the optimization of existing pipelines through the implementation of automated monitoring, alerting, and proactive schema drift detection.
• Facilitate code reviews, enforce documentation standards, and ensure the team adheres to agile best practices.
• Collaborate with the Solution Architect to identify and implement technical improvements, such as leveraging GPUs for large‑scale transformations.

Skills

Data engineering

Python

SQL

Spark / PySpark

Cloud platforms

Databricks

Palantir / Snowflake

Leadership

US Citizenship

Tools

Databricks

Palantir

Snowflake

Terraform

Airflow

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

Accenture Federal Services is seeking a Data Engineer Team Lead to guide a skilled group of data engineers in building and maintaining critical data pipelines for DoD missions. You will set technical direction, promote reusable templates, and ensure scalable, cost-efficient data solutions through modern engineering practices.

You will champion governance, IaC standards, and automation while collaborating with architects to advance pipeline technologies such as Delta Live Tables and GPUs for