Data Engineer Team Lead

The role

You will lead a team of engineers responsible for building and maintaining data pipelines. You will provide technical vision and hands-on leadership for the design, development, and sustainment of data solutions for the DoD.

What you will do

• 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.
• 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.

Required qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in data engineering or software engineering
• Expert-level proficiency with Python, SQL, Spark, or PySpark
• Deep experience with cloud data platforms (e.g., AWS or Azure) and data engineering platforms like Databricks, Palantir, or Snowflake
• Demonstrated experience leading projects
• US Citizenship (No Dual Citizenship)
• Active Secret or TS or TS/SCI clearance

Nice to have

• Experience working in high-security DoD environments (e.g., SIPR, JWICS)
• Hands-on experience with Databricks Delta Live Tables, Terraform for IaC, and CI/CD pipelines
• Familiarity with data orchestration tools (e.g., Airflow) and data quality frameworks (e.g., Great Expectations)
• Experience with streaming data technologies (e.g., Kafka) and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Extensive experience with the development and maintenance of scalable ETL/ELT tools and services

Benefits

• Certifications
• Industry training

Before you apply

• US Citizenship (No Dual Citizenship)
• Applicants must have work authorization that does not now or in the future require sponsorship of a visa for employment authorization in the United States
• Candidates currently employed by a client of Accenture Federal Services or an affiliated Accenture business may not be eligible for consideration

About the company

Accenture Federal Services is a technology company within global Accenture that helps the US federal government. Its 13,000+ people pursue technology and ingenuity for clients across defense, national security, public safety, civilian, and military health organizations.