Accenture Federal Services
Government & Public SectorDirect Greenhouse career site

Data Scientist - Senior

Pay
$94,000 – $178,700 per year
Location
Chantilly, VA
Job type
Full-time
Level
Senior
Experience
8+ years
Listed
23 days ago

Skills & highlights for this role

  • TS/SCI clearance
  • US citizenship
  • SQL
  • ETL
  • Python
  • data pipelines
  • zero trust security

Also useful

  • Kubernetes
  • AWS
  • Elasticsearch / OpenSearch
  • Angular

Who you'll be

The Data Engineer (Senior) provides expert leadership in designing, building, and maintaining the data systems that support advanced analytics and visual intelligence applications. This role develops scalable data pipelines, builds large relational databases, and ensures data flows smoothly and securely across the organization. The SME also integrates new data systems with existing platforms and helps convert structured and semi structured data into meaningful, actionable insights.

What you'll do

  • Build and maintain data pipelines that support visual analytics applications and high performance data processing.
  • Transform structured and semi structured data into usable, actionable information.
  • Design and construct large enterprise relational databases and ensure they perform efficiently.
  • Integrate new data systems with existing data warehouses and refine system performance.
  • Use open source, COTS, and GOTS technologies to support analytics and data workflows.
  • Develop strategies, standards, and best practices for database operations, programming, and security.
  • Collaborate with teams to analyze data needs and enhance overall data quality and usability.

What you need

  • US Citizen with ACTIVE TS/SCI CIP
  • 8+ years of experience
  • Knowledge of data engineering, database development, or related areas.
  • Strong experience with relational databases, SQL, and large scale data design.
  • Hands on experience building data pipelines for structured and semi structured data.
  • Familiarity with analytics, visualization technologies, and high performance or distributed computing.
  • Experience integrating new systems with enterprise data warehouses.
  • Understanding of secure data practices and zero trust principles.
  • Strong communication and problem solving skills.

Nice to have

  • Experience with government or multi enclave data environments.
  • Background with data visualization platforms or visual analytics applications.
  • Experience with cloud data platforms or hybrid architectures.
  • Degree in Data Engineering, Computer Science, or related field.
  • In-house custom developed application with end-user UI and ETL UI
  • Kubernetes
  • Terraform
  • GitLab CI/CD
  • JFrog Artifactory
  • AWS Cloud Services
  • UI & Backend/Middleware
  • Angular
  • .NET C#
  • Database (MySQL)
  • Elasticsearch / OpenSearch
  • Integration of reasoning components, retrieval systems, databases, and AI / GenAI services
  • ETL
  • Python
  • RabbitMQ
  • Celery
  • Redis / Valkey
  • Databases (MySQL, Postgres, Microsoft SQL)
  • Elasticsearch / OpenSearch
  • Complex data parsing and streamlined ingestion
  • Provenance and end-to-end data lineage tracking
  • Schema-aligned ingestion and normalization of diverse structured and unstructured data

Pay and benefits

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, Connecticut, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, and the District of Columbia. 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, Connecticut, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, and the District of Columbia is:

$94,000—$178,700 USD

What We Believe

As a company wholly dedicated to serving the US federal government, we bring together the best talent to help reinvent how federal agencies operate and deliver greater value for their mission and the American people. As a business imperative, every person at Accenture Federal Services has the responsibility to create and sustain a culture where everyone feels welcomed and included.

This is grounded in our core values and our experience that hiring and developing great people who reflect different perspectives, experiences, and backgrounds is key to driving innovation and delivering the results that our clients and the country count on.

About Accenture Federal Services

At Accenture Federal Services, nothing matters more than helping the US federal government make the nation stronger and safer and life better for people. Our 13,000+ people are united in a shared purpose to pursue the limitless potential of technology and ingenuity for clients across defense, national security, public safety, civilian, and military health organizations.

Join Accenture Federal Services, a technology company within global Accenture. Recognized as a Glassdoor Top 100 Best Place to Work, we offer a collaborative and caring community where you feel like you belong and are empowered to grow, learn and thrive through hands-on experience, certifications, industry training and more.

Join us to drive positive, lasting change that moves missions and the government forward!

Read the original posting

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