Software Engineer - Manchester

Accenture UK & Ireland; Manchester; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days vacation per year

Private medical insurance

Additional charitable leave days

Job summary

Accenture UK & Ireland invites applications for a Software Engineer in Manchester. The role focuses on building traditional and serverless applications within an agile team, integrating with storage services and message buses, and delivering scalable solutions.

You will deploy using containers to cloud with robust CI/CD pipelines, and ensure quality via documentation and unit/integration testing with security and performance considerations.

Qualifications

• Several years of industry experience in modern software engineering stacks.
• Experience with cloud-native architectures and at least one major cloud provider.
• Strong knowledge of CI/CD tooling and containerized deployments.

Responsibilities

• Develop traditional and serverless applications in an agile team.
• Deploy applications with containers to cloud and automate with CI/CD.
• Ensure quality with documentation and testing focusing on security and performance.

Skills

Java

Typescript

Python

Go

C#

React

Angular

Vue

Svelte

AWS

Azure

GCP

Terraform

AWS CDK

Pulumi

GitHub Actions

Gitlab CI

Jenkins

CircleCI

ArgoCD

Accessibility

Security

Performance

Caching

Tools

Terraform

AWS CDK

Pulumi

GitHub Actions

Gitlab CI

Jenkins

CircleCI

ArgoCD

Job description

Level: 9 - Specialist

Please Note: Any offer of employment is subject to satisfactory SC security clearance which requires 5 years continuous UK address history, typically including no periods of 30 consecutive days or more spent outside of the UK. Note: The above information relates to a specific client requirement

Role: Software Engineer - Manchester

Accenture is a leading global professional services company, providing a broad range of services in strategy and consulting, interactive, technology and operations, with digital capabilities across all of these services. With our thought leadership and culture of innovation, we apply industry expertise, diverse skill sets and next-generation technology to each business challenge.

We believe in inclusion and diversity and supporting the whole person. Our core values comprise of Stewardship, Best People, Client Value Creation, One Global Network, Respect for the Individual and Integrity. Year after year, Accenture is recognized worldwide not just for business performance but for inclusion and diversity too.

“Across the globe, one thing is universally true of the people of Accenture: We care deeply about what we do and the impact we have with our clients and with the communities in which we work and live. It is personal to all of us.” – Julie Sweet, Accenture CEO

As a team

Accenture Software & Platform Engineering is powered by a community of 1,000+ experts and provides end-to-end product engineering solutions which deliver tangible value, fast. We bring together an obsession for technical excellence with agility and scale, to help clients move from project to product at speed.

We partner with clients across all sectors—from fast-growing scale-ups to national and global blue-chip companies, as well as public sector organizations. Our teams regularly develop products that reach and impact millions of users.

As a member of our Software & Platform Engineering team, you will:

• Develop traditional and serverless applications and services in an agile and collaborative environment using source control that integrate with data storage services / message buses and other architectural elements
• Deploy these applications using features such as containers to cloud leveraging CI/CD to support this process backed with good observability when running these in production
• Ensure quality through the creation of documentation and use of unit / integration / contract testing with a consideration of security / performance requirements

We are looking for experience in the following skills:

• A few years of industry experience in one of following: Java / Typescript / Python / Go/ C#, React, Angular Vue, Svelte.
• Experience with Cloud Native technologies (AWS preferred, familiarity with Azure or GCP a plus)
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (e.g. Terraform, AWS CDK, Pulumi)
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (e.g. GitHub Actions, Gitlab CI, Jenkins, CircleCI, ArgoCD)
• Strong Accessibility, Security, Performance and Caching coding.

Set yourself apart:

• Experience with building datastore solutions on at least one No-SQL(Elasticsearch).
• Proven ability to apply analytical and creative thought and translate into technical solutions.
• Proven ability to debug and resolve complex technical issues.
• Excellent leadership, communication (written and oral) and interpersonal skills.
• Experience shaping and delivering small to medium size pieces of work.

What Is In It For You

• At Accenture in addition to a competitive basic salary, you will also have an extensive benefits package which includes up to 25 days’ vacation per year, private medical insurance and 3 extra days leave per year for charitable work of your choice!
• Flexibility and mobility are required to deliver this role as there will be requirements to spend time onsite with our clients and partners to enable delivery of the first-class services we are known for.