Lead Software Engineer

Role:
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.

Accenture is a leading global professional services company, providing a broad range of services in strategy and consulting, interactive, technology and operations, with digital capabilities across all of these services. With our thought leadership and culture of innovation, we apply industry expertise, diverse skill sets and next-generation technology to each business challenge.

We believe in inclusion and diversity and supporting the whole person. Our core values comprise of Stewardship, Best People, Client Value Creation, One Global Network, Respect for the Individual and Integrity. Year after year, Accenture is recognized worldwide not just for business performance but for inclusion and diversity too.

“Across the globe, one thing is universally true of the people of Accenture:
We care deeply about what we do and the impact we have with our clients and with the communities in which we work and live. It is personal to all of us.” – Julie Sweet, Accenture CEO

As a team:

Accenture Software & Platform Engineering is over 1,000 people strong and provides end-to-end product engineering solutions which deliver tangible value, fast. We bring together an obsession for technical excellence with agility and scale, to help clients move from project to product at speed.

We work with clients in every sector. They range from scale-ups through to national and international blue-chip names and public sector organisations. Our teams routinely work on products that are used by millions of people.

We offer an exciting career working in a vibrant environment, with access to training and a global network of experts. As part of our Software & Platform Engineering team, you’ll be working with cutting-edge technologies and will have the opportunity to develop a wide range of new skills on the job.

In our team you will:

We typically work hand-in-hand with our clients to build great digital products for them and for their customers. To do this, we need experienced, capable engineers who can both deploy their own mastery to get things done hands-on and successfully lead others in doing so. The nature of our work varies from client to client so there will be lots of opportunities to experience new domains and new stacks.

Our team is dedicated to applying great engineering to get great outcomes. Our engineers stand out by keeping one eye on value at all times, and by proposing thoughtful solutions that get the job done efficiently and with low complexity. You’d be a key advocate for this approach within a team.

Beyond client work, our engineers are essential contributors to our internal and regional engineering communities. There’s loads of scope to get involved and help shape conversations around tech you’re interested in, share your knowledge and experience, and learn from colleagues working in very diverse problem spaces.

We are looking for experience in the following skills:

• 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,…