Lead Software Engineer

Lead Software Engineer

Locations:
Glasgow or Edinburgh (must be willing to travel to client sites throughout the UK on an ad hoc basis).

Salary:
Competitive salary and package (Depending on level of experience).

Please Note:

Any offer of employment is subject to satisfactory BPSS and SC security clearance which requires 5 years continuous UK address history at the point of application.

In our team you will:

• Build and lead delivery of end-to-end digital products for clients across a variety of domains and technology stacks.
• Deploy and own features from design, implementation, deployment to production support.
• Maintain high quality, accessibility, security, performance, and caching across the full stack.
• Act as a technical advocate, proposing thoughtful solutions that achieve maximum value with low complexity.
• Contribute to internal and regional engineering communities, share knowledge, and shape conversations around technology.
• Coach, mentor and give structured feedback to other engineers, growing their careers.

• Several years of industry experience as a Java‑focused full‑stack engineer, with strong front‑end experience using modern frameworks such as React, Angular or Vue.
• Proven experience building end‑to‑end solutions, owning features from design and implementation through to deployment and production support.
• Strong hands‑on experience with AWS and cloud‑native architectures, including the ability to deploy, operate and support your own code in live AWS environments.
• Experience using Infrastructure as Code within AWS (e.g. Terraform, AWS CDK, Pulumi).
• Experience designing, building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (e.g. Git Hub Actions, Git Lab CI, Jenkins, ArgoCD), with a focus on automation, reliability and quality.
• Strong engineering standards across accessibility, security, performance and caching, applied consistently throughout the full stack.
• Proven team leadership experience, including leading engineers day‑to‑day, setting technical direction, and growing careers through coaching, mentoring and structured feedback.

At Accenture you will receive a competitive basic salary and an extensive benefits package including: 25 days’ vacation per year, private medical insurance, and 3 extra days of leave per year for charitable work of your choice.

Flexibility and mobility are required to deliver this role as there will be requirements to spend time onsite with our clients and partners to enable delivery of the first‑class services we are known for.

Closing Date for Applications 31/08/2026

Accenture reserves the right to close the role prior to this date should a suitable applicant be found.

Accenture is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all sections of society and does not discriminate on grounds of race, religion or belief, ethnic or national origin, disability, age, citizenship, marital, domestic or civil partnership status, sexual orientation, or gender identity, or any other basis as protected by applicable law.

We believe that no one should be discriminated against because of their differences. All employment decisions shall be made without regard to age, race, creed, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, citizenship status or any other basis as protected by applicable law. Our rich diversity makes us more innovative, more competitive, and more creative, which helps us better serve our clients and our communities.