Data Architecture/Data Fabric Manager - Utilities

About the role

We Are: Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 790,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities.

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 concepts, 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.

Requirements

• Minimum of 7 years of experience in data architecture or enterprise data engineering.
• Minimum of 4 years of experience architecting data fabric solutions (data virtualization, active metadata, knowledge graphs, automated integration).
• Minimum of 4 years of experience with cloud data platforms (e.g., Snowflake, Databricks, Azure Synapse, BigQuery).
• Minimum of 3 years of experience with data integration/ETL/ELT and metadata & lineage tooling.
• Minimum of 3 years of experience with API and streaming architectures.
• Minimum of 1 year of experience serving utilities clients (electric, gas, or water) or in a utilities finance, controllership, or regulatory function.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent (minimum 12 years' work experience).
• If Associate’s Degree, must have equivalent minimum 6-year work experience.

Skills

• Hands-on experience applying data mesh and data product operating models.
• Cloud or data platform architecture certifications.

Benefits

Here’s What You Need Minimum of 7 years of experience in data architecture or enterprise data engineering Minimum of 4 years of experience architecting data fabric solutions (data virtualization, active metadata, knowledge graphs, automated integration) Minimum of 4 years of experience with cloud data platforms (e.g., Snowflake, Databricks, Azure Synapse, BigQuery) Minimum of 3 years of experience with data integration/ETL/ELT and metadata & lineage tooling Minimum of 3 years of experience with API and streaming architectures Minimum of 1 year of experience serving utilities clients (electric, gas, or water) or in a utilities finance, controllership, or regulatory function. Bachelor's degree or equivalent (minimum 12 years' work experience).

Pay

Annual Salary Range: $94,400 to $293,800

Schedule

Travel may be required for this role, varying from 0 to 100% depending on business need and client requirements.

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