<div class="content-intro"><div> <div> </div> <div>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. </div> <div> </div> <div>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. </div> <div> </div> <div>Join us to drive positive, lasting change that moves missions and the government forward!</div> <div> </div> </div></div><p>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.</p> <p><strong>What you’ll be doing</strong></p> <ul> <li>Building, automating, and optimizing the infrastructure and processes that enable rapid, reliable software delivery</li> <li>Working closely with developers to integrate automation, improve deployment workflows, and monitor application performance to maintain high availability across environments</li> <li>Fostering a culture of collaboration, continuous improvement, and shared ownership across engineering teams</li> <li>Proactively identifying bottlenecks, recommending architectural enhancements, and championing practices such as containerization, configuration-as-code, and automated testing</li> <li>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</li> <li>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</li> <li>Optimizing distributed systems performance, improving data reliability, and maintaining resilient ingest and analytic patterns across the Apache ecosystem</li> </ul> <p><strong>What you’ll need:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Experience working in a cloud environment </li> <li>Experience with Infrastructure as Code tool(s) (e.g.: Terraform, Ansible, etc.) </li> <li>Experience with containerization (e.g.: Docker)</li> <li>Experience with automated testing</li> </ul> <p><strong>Bonus Points if you have:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Familiarity with CI/CD pipeline development and automation</li> <li>Experience with troubleshooting and continuous process improvement</li> <li>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</li> <li>Experience supporting cyber operations or data engineering work in environments using Accumulo, NiFi, and Spark pipelines</li> <li>Hands-on experience with distributed data platforms including Hadoop and HDFS</li> <li>Practical experience designing, maintaining, or troubleshooting data ingestion flows using Apache NiFi</li> <li>Experience building or optimizing Spark-based data processing jobs (PySpark, Scala, or Java)</li> <li>Familiarity with Accumulo as a high-ingest, low-latency data store, including integration patterns, bulk loading, or iterator development</li> </ul> <p><strong>Clearance</strong></p> <p>Must be eligible to obtain a US Government clearance </p><div class="content-pay-transparency"><div class="pay-input"><div class="description"><p> </p> <p><span class="TextRun SCXW225111203 BCX8" lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW225111203 BCX8">As required by local law, Accenture Federal Services provides reasonable ranges of compensation for hired roles based on labor costs in the states of <strong>California, Colorado, Connecticut, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, and the District of Columbia</strong></span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW225111203 BCX8" lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW225111203 BCX8">. 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. </span></span><a class="Hyperlink SCXW225111203 BCX8" href="https://www.accenture.com/us-en/careers/your-future-rewards-benefits" target="_blank"><span class="TextRun Underlined SCXW225111203 BCX8" lang="EN-US" data-contrast="none"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW225111203 BCX8" data-ccp-charstyle="Hyperlink">You can find more information on benefits here.</span></span></a><span class="TextRun SCXW225111203 BCX8" lang="EN-