Principal Backend Engineer & Team Leader — UK Travel, SC Cleared

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

Benefits offered by this job

30 days vacation per year

Private medical insurance

Extra leave for charitable work

Job summary

Accenture Leeds-based Principal Software Engineer role requires leadership of engineering teams, hands-on delivery, and client-focused delivery across UK sites. The position involves frequent travel to client sites throughout the UK and working with cloud-native solutions on AWS/Azure.

The role emphasizes driving engineering excellence, shaping technology strategy, and delivering value for diverse clients while aligning with Accenture’s standards and methodologies.

Qualifications

• Significant experience leading teams and growing careers of team members.
• Building relationships with stakeholders who expect results.
• Years of building backend services across synchronous, message-driven, and event-driven paradigms.
• Fluency in Java, C#, Python, TypeScript or React.

Responsibilities

• Lead client accounts holistically—people, delivery, quality and commercials.
• Ensure great engineering while keeping the big picture in mind for client goals.
• Act as a key advocate for value-focused engineering within the team.
• Contribute to internal and regional engineering communities and knowledge sharing.

Skills

Team leadership

Backend services

Java

C#

Python

Typescript / React

AWS / Azure

DevOps practices

Automated testing

Stakeholder management

Cloud-native applications

Tools

AWS

Azure

Job description

Accenture Leeds-based Principal Software Engineer role requires leadership of engineering teams, hands-on delivery, and client-focused delivery across UK sites. The position involves frequent travel to client sites throughout the UK and working with cloud-native solutions on AWS/Azure.

The role emphasizes driving engineering excellence, shaping technology strategy, and delivering value for diverse clients while aligning with Accenture’s standards and methodologies.