Principal Product Engineer – Corrections & Justice Public Sector Platform

7606 ACN SG Svc Pte Ltd Company; Singapore; On-site; SGD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture is seeking an experienced technology leader to architect and deliver complex, distributed microservices platforms and user-facing transactional applications. You will own service decomposition decisions and defend API gateway and event streaming strategies, while guiding multi-team delivery in regulated environments.

You will bridge technical architecture deep-dives with strategic road-maps for senior government and operational leaders, ensuring security, governance and data

Qualifications

• 8-10+ years in software engineering and tech delivery.
• Experience leading distributed microservices platforms.
• Expertise in service decomposition and domain-driven design.

Responsibilities

• Lead the architecture of distributed microservices and complex user-facing applications.
• Define and defend API gateway strategy and event streaming approaches.
• Own bespoke system delivery in regulated environments.
• Manage multi-team delivery across engineering, UX, data, and integration workstreams.
• Communicate technical strategy to senior officials and operational leaders.

Skills

Distributed systems

Microservices architecture

API gateway strategy

Event streaming

Domain-driven design

Technical leadership

Cross-functional leadership

Cloud-native architectures

Observability & analytics

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Kafka

RabbitMQ

REST/GraphQL APIs

Job description

What We Are Looking For

Core Experience 8-10+ years of software engineering and technical product delivery experience, with a track record of leading distributed microservices platforms and complex user-facing transactional applications.

Direct Expertise in Service Decomposition: Direct experience architecting or owning service decomposition decisions — you have an opinion on domain-driven design, API gateway strategy, and event streaming, and you can defend it.

Bespoke System Delivery: Proven track record of architecting custom-engineered platforms (not just configuring off-the-shelf SaaS) within complex, highly regulated organisational environments.

Cross-Functional Team Management: Proven ability to manage multi-team delivery across engineering, UX, data, and integration workstreams.

Strategic & Communication Credibility: Fluent in shifting between technical architecture deep dives with engineering teams and strategic roadmap briefings with senior government officials and non-technical operational leaders.

Industry Background — Strongly Preferred Candidates from the following backgrounds are particularly encouraged to apply:

• Product Companies at Scale: FAANG, growth-stage tech, or platform businesses where microservices architecture, rapid delivery cycles, user-centricity, and product telemetry were a lived reality, not an aspiration.
• Banking & Financial Services: Core banking modernization, payments infrastructure, or regulatory technology platforms with strong API, service governance, and high-security requirements.
• Social Services & Benefits Administration: Case management systems, beneficiary lifecycle platforms, or government service delivery applications.
• Government & Public Sector: Previous engagement with public sector delivery constraints, IM8, PSG, or equivalent governance, security-by-design, and data sovereignty frameworks.
• Healthcare or Justice-Adjacent Industries: Corrections, rehabilitation, mental health platforms, or any domain with complex case-based workflows and strictly regulated data.

Technical Fluency

Microservices & System Architecture: Deep technical fluency in event-driven systems, REST/GraphQL API design, container orchestration (Kubernetes, Docker), message brokers (Kafka, RabbitMQ), and microservice governance.

Full-Stack & UX Engineering Craft: Deep understanding of modern web architectures (React, Next.js, TypeScript, state management) and how frontend interfaces interact with backend microservices, caching layers, and database subledgers.

Pragmatic Prototyping & Scoping: Ability to build quick proof-of-concept code spikes to test technical feasibility, validate AI/UX flows with end-users, and establish implementation patterns for the wider team.

Product Telemetry & Analytics: Practical fluency in embedding client- and server-side observability, product analytics, error, and custom event logging to monitor feature adoption and task completion rates.

Cloud-Native, DevSecOps & Security: Familiarity with DevSecOps practices and security-by-design in government or regulated contexts.

Practical AI Literacy & Tooling Experience: Hands-on experience leveraging modern AI developer tools (e.g., Cursor, Copilot, or AI-assisted IDEs) to accelerate technical discovery, alongside practical experience integrating standard LLM APIs/services into web applications (e.g., search indexing, automated summarization, or operational assistance tools).

Personal Qualities

Outcome-oriented and comfortable with ambiguity.

Credible with both engineers and senior officials; you can shift register fluently between architecture reviews and ministerial briefings.

Disciplined about trade-offs: you know when to hold the line on architectural integrity and when to ship.

Curious about complex human systems — the corrections domain involves layered operational, ethical, and policy dimensions that reward genuine intellectual engagement.

Nice to Have Experience

Experience with rehabilitation, reintegration, or corrections-specific platforms (case officer tools, risk assessment systems, supervision management).

Prior consulting or advisory delivery experience across multiple clients or sectors.

Certifications in SAFe, CSPO, or equivalent scaled agile frameworks.

Exposure to AI/ML integration in operational platforms.

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