Senior Platform Engineer

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Accenture Federal Services is seeking a Data Platform Architect to set technical vision for a common data platform and broader mission cloud ecosystem in a secure, regulated environment. This is a hands-on technical leadership role, influencing the delivery team as the platform expands. Architecture governance is collective, with this role as a key voice on data architecture.
What You Will Do:
Own technical vision and roadmap for the data platform (data lake/lakehouse, ingestion, modeling, governance, analytics)
Translate vision into design decisions, standards, and reference patterns for engineering
Present and defend architecture positions to the Architecture Review Board; communicate approved decisions to the team
Influence architectural direction beyond the data platform as the program matures
Identify and retire technical debt with clear rationale
Remain hands-on: prototype, review code, build reference implementations, set engineering quality standards
Design/build data pipelines and platform services in Python and related tools, focusing on performance, reliability, maintainability
Establish data quality, lineage, and observability practices
Ensure security and compliance requirements are met from the start
Stakeholder Engagement
Engage government customers and mission stakeholders to clarify direction and requirements
Communicate technical vision, tradeoffs, and risks to senior stakeholders in actionable language
Ensure technical team understands both what to build and why
Represent the data platform in customer and partner discussions
Documentation and Standards
Document decisions, standards, patterns, and rationale for transparency and onboarding
Contribute to and uphold engineering and architecture standards
How We Work
SAFe Lean-Agile delivery with 2-week sprints
Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE)
DevSecOps with security/compliance built into the pipeline
Decentralized command: teams own execution, technical leaders set direction and remove ambiguity
What you’ll need:
Hands-on development/engineering experience (data architecture/platforms)
Python development skills and familiarity with data processing, orchestration, and/or analysis tools
Experience working with senior stakeholders and/or leading engineering teams, adjusting depth/language as needed
Experience setting technical direction through influence, standards, and design leadership
Bonus Points if you have:
Ability to turn unclear stakeholder direction into defensible technical requirements/designs
Experience designing/delivering data lake, lakehouse, or large-scale data platform solutions (e.g.: ingestion, storage, transformation, governance, consumption)
Experience with distributed data processing frameworks and/or modern open data formats
Experience with architecture governance (e.g.: review boards, design reviews, consensus building)
Experience supporting test, evaluation, or operational data workflows with large data collection/analysis
Experience with data tagging, classification, and segregation in strict access control environments
Experience delivering in DevSecOps pipelines with automated security/compliance controls
Familiarity with MBSE and model-driven approaches to systems/data design
Experience in SAFe or similar scaled agile environments
Experience mentoring engineers and raising technical capability without formal management
Clearance:
Must have an active Top Secret level clearance
As required by local law, Accenture Federal Services provides reasonable ranges of compensation for hired roles based on labor costs in the states of California, Colorado, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, and the District of Columbia, and the city of Cleveland. The base pay range for this position in these locations is shown below. Compensation for roles at Accenture Federal Services varies depending on a wide array of factors, including but not limited to office location, role, skill set, and level of experience. Accenture Federal Services offers a wide variety of benefits. You can find more information on benefits here. We accept applications on an on-going basis and there is no fixed deadline to apply.
The pay range for the states of California, Colorado, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, and the District of Columbia, and the city of Cleveland is:
$124,000—$246,400 USD
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