Front-End Engineering Team Lead AI-Driven Platforms

Accenture PLC; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days leave

Flexible work policies

Private healthcare

Pension plan

Employee assistance programme

Parental leave

Job summary

Accenture Song is seeking a Front End Engineer in London to help shape modern digital products. You will work with cutting‑edge design systems, mobile and web platforms, and generative AI‑driven features, collaborating with designers, data scientists and engineers to deliver user‑facing solutions.

You will lead with hands‑on coding, guide delivery and drive digital transformations for global clients, balancing performance, security and scalability in fast‑paced projects.

Qualifications

• 4+ years’ front‑end web development experience using TypeScript/JavaScript (with Node.js‑based tooling or similar)
• 2+ years’ experience leading engineering teams or squads, including setting technical direction, guiding code quality and owning delivery outcomes
• Experience working closely with other disciplines (Design, QA, Cloud, PM/PO/Delivery)
• Strong experience with modern front‑end frameworks and libraries (React or similar, ideally including meta‑frameworks such as Next.js), including state management and component‑driven development
• Hands‑on use of Generative AI in your engineering workflows (e.g. AI coding assistants and agentic tooling) and in the products you build, such as LLM‑powered features
• Experience building, maintaining and scaling design systems and component libraries, working closely with designers to keep them consistent
• Experience integrating front‑end applications with backend and cloud services through GraphQL and RESTful APIs
• Extensive experience in agile environments for digital product creation
• Front‑end architecture patterns (e.g. component‑driven design, micro‑frontends, server‑side rendering and static generation)
• Performance and scalability, including optimising Core Web Vitals
• Security best practices, secure coding and privacy awareness
• Unit, integration and end‑to‑end automated testing (e.g. Jest, Playwright or Cypress)
• CI/CD setup and maintenance
• Debugging and complex problem‑solving
• Accessibility best practices
• Client‑facing or leadership consulting experience, including engaging stakeholders, shaping solutions and turning business goals into technical outcomes
• Confident articulating technology and engineering trends to clients and teams
• Track record of improving delivery speed and quality through modern engineering practices (e.g. trunk‑based development, feature flags, automated quality gates and DORA metrics)

Responsibilities

• Support growth within our customer technology product engineering practice
• Advise clients on how to build product and platform engineering capabilities and teams
• Lead teams across large digital & agile transformation programmes
• Collaborate with Product Managers, Designers, Data Scientists and Engineers to deliver compelling user‑facing products and solutions
• Propel the use of Generative AI within our work and products
• Contribute technology and engineering thought leadership to our clients and teams
• Maximise team performance through mentorship, skills learning and career development
• Contribute to developing offerings, assets and capabilities, and take part in events

Skills

TypeScript/JavaScript

Node.js tooling

Team leadership

React

Next.js

Generative AI

Design systems

API integration

Agile

Performance optimization

Tools

Jest

Playwright

Cypress

GraphQL

REST APIs

Job description

Accenture Song is seeking a Front End Engineer in London to help shape modern digital products. You will work with cutting‑edge design systems, mobile and web platforms, and generative AI‑driven features, collaborating with designers, data scientists and engineers to deliver user‑facing solutions.

You will lead with hands‑on coding, guide delivery and drive digital transformations for global clients, balancing performance, security and scalability in fast‑paced projects.