Data Engineering Manager

Accenture Applied Intelligence practice help our clients grow their business in entirely new ways.  Analytics enables our clients to achieve high performance through insights from data - insights that inform better decisions and strengthen customer relationships. From strategy to execution, Accenture works with organizations to develop analytic capabilities - from accessing and reporting on data to predictive modelling - to outperform the competition

As part of our Analytics practice, you will join a worldwide network of over 20,000 smart and driven colleagues experienced in leading statistical tools, methods and applications. From data to analytics and insights to actions, our forward-thinking consultants provide analytically-informed, issue-based insights at scale to help our clients improve outcomes and achieve high performance.

Manager in Applied Intelligence

A Data Engineering Manager(Full Stack & Cloud) defines and delivers scalable, secure cloud-native data platforms and end-to-end data products. They combine technical ownership across frontend/back-end/infra with people and program management — translating business priorities into architecture, driving cloud strategy, enforcing operational excellence, and coaching teams to deliver reliable data and ML-ready services that enable analytics and AI.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Own the end-to-end data platform and full-stack data product roadmap: architecture, delivery, reliability, and cost-efficiency.
• Translate business requirements into scalable cloud architectures (data ingestion, processing, storage, APIs, and UIs) that serve analytics, reporting, and ML/GenAI needs.
• Drive design and implementation of batch and streaming pipelines, microservices, APIs, feature stores, vector DBs, and data stores (relational & NoSQL).
• Ensure resilient deployments via CI/CD, IaC, containerization (Docker/Kubernetes), serverless patterns, and orchestration (Airflow/ADF/other).
• Lead cloud cost optimisation, capacity planning, security, compliance, and data governance (lineage, cataloguing, access controls).
• Partner with Product, Data Science, Analytics, and Engineering to prioritise platform features, SLAs, and SLOs.
• Establish and enforce engineering best practices: code reviews, testing, observability, incident runbooks, and postmortems.
• Hire, mentor, and grow engineers and leads; allocate resources, set goals, and manage delivery across multiple pods.
• Drive migration/modernization initiatives (on-prem → cloud, monolith → microservices, legacy ETL → lakehouse) when applicable.
• Maintain stakeholder communication: status reporting, technical tradeoffs, risk mitigation, and roadmap alignment.

Educational Background/qualifications

• B Tech/M Tech from reputed engineering colleges
• Masters/M Tech in Computer Science
• Master degree in Statistics/Econometrics/ Economics from reputed institute

Requirements:

• 8–12+ years in software/data engineering and cloud platform roles, with 3+ years managing or leading engineering teams.
• Proven experience designing and operating cloud-native data platforms on AWS/Azure/GCP (or multiple).
• Strong full-stack capabilities: backend services (Python/Java/Scala/Go), frontend/web UI experience (React/Vue or similar) a plus, and robust API design.
• Deep experience with data technologies: Spark/Databricks, data lakes/lakehouses (Delta/Iceberg/Hudi), data warehouses (Snowflake/BigQuery/Redshift), streaming (Kafka/Kinesis), and feature stores/vector DBs.
• Expertise in infrastructure as code (Terraform/CloudFormation), container orchestration (Kubernetes), CI/CD pipelines, and automated testing.
• Solid understanding of security, identity/access management, encryption, and regulatory compliance for data.
• Experience with monitoring/observability tools, cost management, and SRE/ops practices.
• Strong stakeholder management, program delivery, and vendor evaluation experience.

Soft Skills

• Strategic thinker with a delivery mindset and strong bias for measurable outcomes.
• Excellent people manager and coach; fosters psychological safety and continuous learning.
• Clear, concise communicator able to translate technical tradeoffs to business stakeholders.

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About Accenture

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