Senior Data Fabric Architect & Platform Lead

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

Benefits offered by this job

Master’s degree bonus points

Certifications in cloud/data platforms

Industry experience in energy/manufact

Job summary

Accenture is seeking a senior Data Architect to design enterprise data fabric solutions across on-prem and multi-cloud environments. You will unify distributed data using data virtualization, active metadata, and knowledge graphs to power analytics and AI.

You will define reference architectures, enable self-service data products, and drive data mesh concepts with Snowflake, Databricks, Azure Synapse, and BigQuery. Travel may be required for client work.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in data architecture or enterprise data engineering.
• 6+ years architecting data fabric solutions (data virtualization, active metadata, knowledge graphs, automated integration).
• 5+ years of experience with cloud data platforms (Snowflake, Databricks, Azure Synapse, BigQuery).
• 4+ years of experience with data integration/ETL/ELT and metadata & lineage tooling.
• 3+ years of experience with API and streaming architectures.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent; 12+ years of work experience if no degree.

Responsibilities

• Architect enterprise data fabric delivering unified, intelligent access to distributed data across on-prem and multi-cloud environments.
• Integrate the connected data layer with data virtualization, active metadata, knowledge graphs, cataloging, and automated data integration for analytics and AI.
• Define reference architectures, integration patterns, and governance to scale across the enterprise.
• Enable data products and self-service for real-time data delivery through the fabric.
• Apply data mesh and data product concepts aligned with cloud data platforms and streaming architectures.
• Advise client architects and leaders to shape data modernization solutions.

Skills

Data architecture

Enterprise data engineering

Data fabric

Data virtualization

Active metadata

Knowledge graphs

APIs & streaming

Cloud data platforms

Reference architectures

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Snowflake

Databricks

Azure Synapse

BigQuery

Data integration tooling

Job description

Accenture is seeking a senior Data Architect to design enterprise data fabric solutions across on-prem and multi-cloud environments. You will unify distributed data using data virtualization, active metadata, and knowledge graphs to power analytics and AI.

You will define reference architectures, enable self-service data products, and drive data mesh concepts with Snowflake, Databricks, Azure Synapse, and BigQuery. Travel may be required for client work.