Custom Software Engineer Platform Engineer

Accenture Flex – Overview

Accenture Flex offers you the flexibility of local fixed‑duration project‑based work powered by Accenture, a leading global professional services company. Accenture is consistently recognized on FORTUNE's 100 Best Companies to Work For and Diversity Inc's Top 50 Companies for Diversity. As an Accenture Flex employee, you will apply your skills and experience to help drive business transformation for leading organizations and communities.

In addition to delivering innovative solutions for Accenture's clients, you will work with a highly skilled, diverse network of people across Accenture businesses who are using the latest emerging technologies to address today's biggest business challenges. You will receive competitive rewards and access to benefits programs and world‑class learning resources. Accenture Flex employees work in their local metro area onsite at the project, significantly reducing and/or eliminating the demands to travel.

• The individual in this role is accountable for establishing and maintaining partnerships with Application Development and Production. Ensure the appropriate instrumentation, tooling, ticketing, alerting, and on‑call routines are in place for key services. The role demonstrates the ability to decompose issues or objectives into units of work that can be assigned to other team members.
• Has knowledge and expertise in supporting production environments and associated maintenance, change control, incident, and problem management.
• Has demonstrated expertise in application, infrastructure, and software design across multiple technologies. Can identify opportunities for platform improvements.
• Has demonstrated ability to design and develop significant components within an application. Designs architecture and drives optimal solutions using established design patterns and principles.
• Ensures design reviews, code reviews, and compliance with bank standards for information security and infrastructure standards.
• Ability to perform or support continuous integration and deployment activities with understanding of Dev Ops and observability.
• Leads adoption of emerging technologies for on‑premises, cloud, and hybrid architectures.
• Provides technical guidance for platform engineers and collaborates with solution architects to ensure consistent design across platform components.
• Serves as a fully seasoned/proficient technical resource able to coordinate dependencies across platform teams and teams working on business capabilities. Facilitates collaboration within and across teams. Serves as a go‑to person for consultation from others.
• Makes recommendations and ensures the platform easily supports NFRs across multiple line‑of‑business initiatives and anticipated growth over five years.
• Demonstrates the ability to identify more complex problems that cross several infrastructure domains and gather data and insights from others. Demonstrates the ability to assess issues identified by others and update the mental model of software and infrastructure services.
• This role requires three days per week onsite in Jersey City, NJ or Charlotte, NC.

• Minimum 5+ years of experience building and maintaining applications with focus on performance, observability, scalability, security, and reliability.
• Minimum 5+ years of experience overseeing enterprise‑grade platform solutions.
• Bachelor’s Degree.

• Strong experience in Java/J2EE, Spring Boot, Mule, web services, Kafka, SQL & PL/SQL (Oracle).
• Strong knowledge of XML, JSON and its usage within API and microservice implementations at scale.
• Significant expertise in cloud‑native deployment using Open Shift, Kubernetes or any one of the container platforms.
• Experience using leading app servers and integration technologies like Mule ESB, Anypoint Platform, MQ, Kafka.
• Experience in Splunk, Dynatrace, or App Dynamics (APM tools).
• Proven ability to leverage knowledge of infrastructure automation, Dev Ops, cloud technologies, and platform architecture to build resilient, scalable, and maintainable solutions.
• Experience implementing best practices, optimizing performance, ensuring…