Accenture
Innovation and Automation Lead
$108K–$203K
Arlington, VA +1 · Full-time · Posted Nov 17, 2025
- Location
- Arlington, VA
Arlington, Virginia, United States - Experience
- 5+ years in a relevant engineering field; at least 2 years in a technical leadership, team lead, or mentorship capacity.
- Visa sponsorship
- Applicants must have US work authorization that does not now or in the future require visa sponsorship.
About the job
Leads a team building automation frameworks, CI/CD pipelines, and reusable tools that improve the reliability and delivery of data-platform engineering and MLOps capabilities.
What you'll do
- Lead and mentor automation engineers while setting automation strategy and promoting best practices across engineering teams.
- Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines, Terraform modules, and automated testing, monitoring, and alerting solutions.
- Partner with data engineering, data products, and AI/ML teams to build automation and evaluate tools that reduce manual work.
What they ask for
- 5+ years in DevOps, SRE, or automation-focused software/data engineering.
- At least 2 years in technical leadership, team leadership, or mentorship.
- Expert hands-on Infrastructure-as-Code experience, particularly Terraform; deep CI/CD expertise; and expert Python proficiency.
- Cloud experience with AWS or Azure; US citizenship with no dual citizenship; active TS or TS/SCI clearance.
Nice to have
- Automation for data platforms such as Databricks or Snowflake; familiarity with MLOps tools such as MLflow or Kubeflow.
- Docker or Kubernetes experience; experience in high-security DoD or Intelligence Community environments.
Pay
$108,400 — $203,400 USD (base salary)
Tools
Terraform, GitLab CI, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Python, AWS, Azure, Databricks
AI focus
Build automation supporting MLOps workflows and collaborate with AI/ML teams; MLOps familiarity is preferred.
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