Principal Full-Stack Engineer - Lead & Deliver (UK Travel)

3003 Accenture (UK) Limited Company; Manchester; On-site; GBP 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

30 days vacation

Private medical insurance

3 extra days for charitable work

Job summary

Accenture in Manchester seeks a Principal Software Engineer to lead and deliver complex engineering initiatives across client environments. You will partner with clients and teams to drive end-to-end product delivery, maintain high quality, and mentor engineers in a dynamic consultancy setting.

The role requires travel to client sites throughout the UK, a strong background in backend services, cloud-native architectures on AWS/Azure, and hands-on leadership across multiple stacks.

Qualifications

• Significant experience leading teams and growing careers.
• Proven ability to build relationships with stakeholders expecting results.
• Extensive backend experience across synchronous API, message-driven, and event-driven patterns.
• Fluency in Java, C#, Python, or TypeScript/React.
• Recent work building, deploying, and running cloud-native apps on AWS and/or Azure.
• Experience defining strategies and delivering products and services using Agentic AI.
• Familiar with DevOps practices and automation.
• Experience creating repeatable, automated tests.
• Strong collaboration and learning mindset in diverse teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead client accounts holistically including people, delivery, quality, and commercials.
• Deliver great engineering outcomes with low complexity.
• Advise on using capability and flexibility of a consultancy partner to reach goals.
• Shape internal and regional engineering communities and share knowledge.
• Work with clients to build digital products end-to-end.

Skills

Team leadership

Stakeholder management

Backend services

Java

C#

Python

TypeScript/React

AWS

Azure

Agentic AI

DevOps practices

Automated testing

Collaboration

Adaptability

Tools

AWS

Azure

Jenkins

Job description

Accenture in Manchester seeks a Principal Software Engineer to lead and deliver complex engineering initiatives across client environments. You will partner with clients and teams to drive end-to-end product delivery, maintain high quality, and mentor engineers in a dynamic consultancy setting.

The role requires travel to client sites throughout the UK, a strong background in backend services, cloud-native architectures on AWS/Azure, and hands-on leadership across multiple stacks.