Senior Data Fabric Architect & Enterprise AI Lead

Accenture PLC; Arlington (VA); On-site; USD 87,000 - 270,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision

401(k) plan

Bonus opportunities

Paid holidays

Paid time off

Job summary

Accenture is seeking a senior data architect to design enterprise data fabric solutions enabling unified access to distributed data across on‑prem and multi‑cloud environments. You will define reference architectures and governance patterns to scale across the enterprise.

You will drive data products and real‑time delivery, applying data mesh concepts and modern data platforms while advising client architects on modernization programs.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in data architecture or enterprise data engineering.
• 6+ years architecting data fabric solutions: data virtualization, active metadata, knowledge graphs, automated integration.
• 5+ years with cloud data platforms: Snowflake, Databricks, Azure Synapse, BigQuery.
• 4+ years data integration/ETL/ELT and metadata & lineage tooling.
• 3+ years API and streaming architectures.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent; if Associate’s, 6+ years work experience.

Responsibilities

• Architect enterprise data fabric delivering unified, automated access to distributed data across on-prem and multi-cloud.
• Integrate data virtualization, active metadata, knowledge graphs, cataloging into a connected data layer for analytics and AI.
• Define reference architectures, integration patterns, and governance at scale.
• Enable data products and self-service with real-time data delivery via the fabric.
• Apply data mesh concepts and cloud platforms to client problems; advise clients and shape solutions.

Skills

Data architecture

Data fabric

Data virtualization

Active metadata

Knowledge graphs

Automated data integration

Snowflake

Databricks

Azure Synapse

BigQuery

ETL/ELT

Metadata & lineage tooling

API architectures

Streaming architectures

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Job description

Accenture is seeking a senior data architect to design enterprise data fabric solutions enabling unified access to distributed data across on‑prem and multi‑cloud environments. You will define reference architectures and governance patterns to scale across the enterprise.

You will drive data products and real‑time delivery, applying data mesh concepts and modern data platforms while advising client architects on modernization programs.