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Accenture Federal Services

Federal - Big Data Engineer

Arlington, VA

We are:

AccentureFederal Services, helping our federal clients tackle their toughest challenges while unleashing their fullest potential...and then some. What makes our approach so unique? Operating from the nation's capital, we bring together commercial innovation and leading-edge technologies to deliver an integrated and interactive experience that far exceeds expectations. How? Our passion meets purpose! Through our diverse culture and inclusive thinking, we embrace our employees' ideas taking them from concept to practical solutions. Not to mention, we sleep well at night knowing our work directly impacts and improves the way the world works. We keep our tech smarts sharp by providing abundant training and certification opportunities. Are you ready to learn and grow in a career, while making a difference?

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You are:

The Chip and JoannaGainesat developing data pipelines. Like turning afixer-upperhouse into thebest on the block, you turn complicated datasets into useful,showstoppingformats. You live in the cloud and open-source world and enjoy working with your team to bring all the pieces of the data story together, keepingratingshigh andviewerswowed. What does a good time look like to you? Hanging out on the reddit big data feeds and chatting about the latest advances in machine learning and AI. And of course, you alwaysstay tunedfor what is coming next.

The Work:
  • Experience in the full software development lifecycle, utilizing emerging technologies and big data design principles in developing data pipelines, interfaces, and architecture to support big data and analytics initiatives.
  • Collaborate with other engineers, data analysts, data scientists, and data visualizers to bring powerful analytical solutions and insights to our clients

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Qualifications

Here's what you need:
  • Data Engineering or Big Data Technologies
  • Cloud Technologies ( Azure or GCP or AWS)
  • SQL and/or NOSQL databases to organize the collection, processing, and storing of data from different sources
  • Architecting and building scalable data platforms
  • One more thing, this role requires US Citizenship

Bonus Points:
  • Open-source technologies such as Spark, Kafka, Presto, Hive, Cassandra, Hadoop
  • Experience with 1 of 3 - Java, Scala, and Python programming languages. For example, utilizing Python to build data sorting algorithms and ETL scripts.
  • Conversant with cloud native CLIs for various data engineering related activities such as setting up compute and storage resources, IAM and ETL
  • Professional Cloud Data Engineer certification in AWS, Azure or GCP
  • Bachelor's Degree

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Job ID: accenture_federal-R00005065
Employment Type: Other