Data Engineer

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Accenture Federal Services is seeking a Data Engineer to join our team and support our client in the San Antonio, TX area. This role sits at the intersection of development and operations, focusing on creating CI/CD pipelines, managing cloud environments, and implementing Infrastructure as Code to ensure systems are scalable, secure, and resilient.

What you’ll be doing

Building, automating, and optimizing the infrastructure and processes that enable rapid, reliable software delivery

Working closely with developers to integrate automation, improve deployment workflows, and monitor application performance to maintain high availability across environments

Fostering a culture of collaboration, continuous improvement, and shared ownership across engineering teams

Proactively identifying bottlenecks, recommending architectural enhancements, and championing practices such as containerization, configuration-as-code, and automated testing

Aligning tooling, processes, and infrastructure with business needs to help teams deliver features faster, respond to issues quickly, and maintain a stable, secure operational posture

Designing and enhancing large-scale data pipelines leveraging Hadoop, HDFS, Apache NiFi, Apache Spark, and Accumulo to support mission-critical data ingestion, processing, and analytics workflows

Optimizing distributed systems performance, improving data reliability, and maintaining resilient ingest and analytic patterns across the Apache ecosystem

What you’ll need:

3 years of experience in CI/CD pipeline development and automation

3 years of experience with cloud infrastructure management and monitoring

3 years of experience with Infrastructure as Code and configuration management

3 years of experience with containerization and automated testing

Bonus Points if you have:

Experience with troubleshooting and continuous process improvement

Knowledge of tuning JVM/GC, YARN, tablet servers, or NiFi performance—aligned with the types of stability and modernization work reflected in internal AFS/Recro big-data engagements

Experience supporting cyber operations or data engineering work in environments using Accumulo, NiFi, and Spark pipelines

Hands-on experience with distributed data platforms including Hadoop and HDFS

Practical experience designing, maintaining, or troubleshooting data ingestion flows using Apache NiFi

Experience building or optimizing Spark-based data processing jobs (PySpark, Scala, or Java)

Familiarity with Accumulo as a high-ingest, low-latency data store, including integration patterns, bulk loading, or iterator development

Clearance

Must have an active Secret clearance; TS/SCI preferred

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:

$106,300 — $206,200 USD

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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. We have an unwavering commitment to creating a culture in which all our people are respected, feel a sense of belonging, and have equal opportunity. 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.

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