Platform Engineering Manager — UK Travel & GenAI

Accenture UK; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

30 days vacation

Private medical insurance

3 extra days leave for charitable work

Car allowance

Job summary

Accenture UK is recruiting a Principal Software Engineer to lead regional UK engagements, with ad hoc travel to client sites across the country. You will steer delivery, mentor teams, and shape architectural outcomes while ensuring reliability and value for clients.

The role emphasizes cutting‑edge engineering, GenAI practices and strong collaboration within the S&PE Engineering group to drive fast, scalable outcomes for diverse industries.

Qualifications

• Several years building backend services across integration paradigms (synchronous API-driven, message-driven, event-driven).
• Experience with cloud-native apps on AWS and/or Azure.
• DevOps practices and automated testing.

Responsibilities

• Lead client engagements, including people, delivery, quality and commercials.
• Deliver great engineering outcomes with low complexity and high value.
• Contribute to incident response and post-incident reviews to drive learning.

Skills

Backend services

Cloud-native

Java/.NET

Python/TypeScript

AWS/Azure

DevOps

Automation tests

Observability

GenAI experience

Stakeholder management

Tools

AWS/Azure

Job description

Accenture UK is recruiting a Principal Software Engineer to lead regional UK engagements, with ad hoc travel to client sites across the country. You will steer delivery, mentor teams, and shape architectural outcomes while ensuring reliability and value for clients.

The role emphasizes cutting‑edge engineering, GenAI practices and strong collaboration within the S&PE Engineering group to drive fast, scalable outcomes for diverse industries.