Platform Engineering Leader – UK Travel, Car Allowance

Accenture UK & Ireland; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

30 days vacation

Private medical insurance

3 extra days leave per year forcharity

Car allowance

Job summary

Accenture UK & Ireland is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to lead client engagements, design and deliver cloud-native solutions, and champion reliability and observability across complex digital programs. You will mentor teams, shape technical strategy, and collaborate with stakeholders to achieve measurable outcomes.

Expect a role requiring hands-on engineering, strong leadership, and travel to client sites across the UK.

Qualifications

• Strong stakeholder relationships with outcomes.
• Multiple years building backend services across integration paradigms.
• Cloud-native apps on AWS and/or Azure.
• Hands-on GenAI experience or active personal GenAI projects.

Responsibilities

• Lead client engagements holistically—people, delivery, quality, and commercials.
• Deliver high-quality engineering while keeping the big picture in mind.
• Promote reliability-first service delivery with SLIs/SLOs.
• Contribute to incident response and blameless post-incident reviews.
• Collaborate across internal and regional engineering communities.

Skills

Java

DotNet/C#

Python

TypeScript

AWS / Azure

DevOps

Testing automation

GenAI

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

Accenture UK & Ireland is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to lead client engagements, design and deliver cloud-native solutions, and champion reliability and observability across complex digital programs. You will mentor teams, shape technical strategy, and collaborate with stakeholders to achieve measurable outcomes.

Expect a role requiring hands-on engineering, strong leadership, and travel to client sites across the UK.