Senior Data Fabric Architect & Solutions Lead

Accenture; Walnut Creek (CA); On-site; USD 94,000 - 294,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture is seeking a senior data architect to design enterprise data fabric solutions enabling unified, automated access to distributed data across on‑prem and multi‑cloud environments.

Responsibilities include integrating data virtualization, knowledge graphs, and cataloging into a connected data layer for analytics and AI, defining scalable reference architectures, and enabling real‑time data delivery and self‑service data products.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of data architecture or enterprise data engineering experience.
• 6+ years building data fabric solutions (data virtualization, active metadata, knowledge graphs, automated data integration).
• 5+ years with cloud data platforms (Snowflake, Databricks, Azure Synapse, BigQuery).
• 4+ years of data integration/ETL/ELT and metadata & lineage tooling.
• 3+ years API and streaming architectures.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent (minimum 12 years' work experience). If Associate’s Degree, must have equivalent minimum 6-year work experience.

Responsibilities

• Architect enterprise data fabric — design data fabric solutions that deliver unified, intelligent, automated access to distributed data across on-prem and multi-cloud environments.
• Integrate the connected data layer — design the integration of data virtualization, active metadata, knowledge graphs, cataloging, and automated data integration into a connected data layer for analytics and AI.
• Define reference architectures — establish reference architectures, integration patterns, and governance integration that scale across the enterprise.
• Enable data products and self-service — support self-service consumption, data products, and real-time data delivery through the fabric.
• Apply modern data paradigms — bring data mesh and data product operating models, cloud data platforms (Snowflake, Databricks, Azure Synapse, BigQuery), and streaming/API architectures to bear on client problems.
• Advise and shape solutions — engage client architects and leaders as a trusted advisor and shape solutions for major data modernization pursuits.

Skills

Data architecture

Enterprise data engineering

Data fabric

Data virtualization

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Snowflake

Databricks

Azure Synapse

BigQuery

Job description

Accenture is seeking a senior data architect to design enterprise data fabric solutions enabling unified, automated access to distributed data across on‑prem and multi‑cloud environments.

Responsibilities include integrating data virtualization, knowledge graphs, and cataloging into a connected data layer for analytics and AI, defining scalable reference architectures, and enabling real‑time data delivery and self‑service data products.