Custom Software Engineer - 6427356

Accenture; New Jersey; On-site; USD 105,000 - 118,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401(k) plan

Paid time off

Job summary

Accenture Flex offers local fixed-duration project-based work with access to Accenture resources and benefits. The role is onsite 3 days per week in Jersey City, NJ or Charlotte, NC, with opportunities to work across on-prem, cloud and hybrid architectures.

You will guide platform engineers, drive design choices, and help ensure security and reliability across multiple services. The position emphasizes strong Java/J2EE, Spring Boot, Mule, Kafka, SQL/PLSQL, OpenShift/Kubernetes, and DevOps

Qualifications

• 15+ years building and maintaining enterprise applications.
• 15+ years overseeing enterprise-grade platform solutions.
• Bachelor’s degree required.

Responsibilities

• Establish and maintain partnerships with Application Development and Production teams.
• Support production environments including maintenance, change, incident and problem management.
• Design and develop significant components; drive architecture and platform improvements.
• Ensure design reviews, code reviews, and compliance with security and infra standards.
• Support CI/CD activities with DevOps and observability knowledge.
• Lead adoption of emerging technologies for on-prem, cloud, and hybrid architectures.
• Provide technical guidance for platform engineers and collaborate with solution architects.

Skills

Java/J2EE

Spring Boot

Mule

Web Services

Kafka

SQL/PLSQL

XML/JSON

OpenShift/Kubernetes

APM tools

DevOps

Security/compliance

Leadership/Communication

Education

Bachelor’s Degree

Tools

Mule ESB

Any point Platform

MQ

Job description

Accenture Flex offers you the flexibility of local fixed-duration project-based work powered by Accenture, a leading global professional services company. Accenture is consistently recognized on FORTUNE's 100 Best Companies to Work For and Diversity Inc's Top 50 Companies For Diversity lists.

As an Accenture Flex employee, you will apply your skills and experience to help drive business transformation for leading organizations and communities. In addition to delivering innovative solutions for Accenture's clients, you will work with a highly skilled, diverse network of people across Accenture businesses who are using the latest emerging technologies to address today's biggest business challenges.

You will receive competitive rewards and access to benefits programs and world-class learning resources. Accenture Flex employees work in their local metro area onsite at the project, significantly reducing and/or eliminating the demands to travel.

Key Responsibilities:

• The individual in this role is accountable for establishing and maintaining partnerships with Application Development and Production Ensure the appropriate instrumentation, tooling, ticketing, alerting and on call routines are in place for key services. This role demonstrates the ability to decompose issues or objectives into units of work that can be assigned to other team members.
• Has the knowledge and expertise of supporting production environments, and associated maintenance, change, control, incident and problem management.
• Has demonstrated expertise in application/infrastructure/software design across multiple technologies. Can identify opportunities for platform improvements
• Has demonstrated ability to design and develop significant components within an application. Designs architecture and drives optimal solutions using established design patterns and principles.
• Ensures design reviews, code reviews and compliance with bank standards for information security and infrastructure standards.
• Ability to perform or support continuous integration and deployment activities with understanding of DevOps and observability.
• Leads adoption of emerging technologies for On-prem, Cloud, and Hybrid architectures.
• Provides technical guidance for platform engineers and collaborates with solution architects to ensure consistent design across platform components.
• Serves as a fully seasoned/proficient technical resource able to coordinate dependencies across platform teams and teams working on business capabilities. Facilitates collaboration within and across teams. Go to person for consultation from others.
• Makes recommendations and ensures platform easily supports NFRs across multiple LOB initiatives and anticipated growth over 5 years.
• Demonstrates the ability to identify more complex problems that cross several infrastructure domains and gather data and insights from others. Demonstrates the ability to assess issues identified by others and update the mental model of software and infrastructure services.

**This role requires 3 days per week onsite in Jersey City, NJ or Charlotte, NC

Basic Qualifications:

• Minimum 15 years of experience building and maintaining applications with focus on performance, observability, scalability, security, and reliability.
• Minimum 15 years experience overseeing enterprise grade platform solutions.
• Bachelor’s Degree

Preferred Qualifications:

• Strong experience in Java/J2EE, Spring Boot, Mule, web Services, Kafka, SQL & PL/SQL (Oracle)
• Strong knowledge of XML, JSON and its usage within API and Microservice implementations at scale.
• Significant expertise in cloud-native deployment using OpenShift, Kubernetes or any one the container platform.
• Experience using leading app servers and integration technologies like Mule ESB, Any point Platform, MQ, Kafka.
• Experience in Splunk, Dynatrace or AppDynamics (APM tools).
• Proven ability to leverage knowledge of infrastructure automation, DevOps, cloud technologies and platform architecture to build resilient, scalable, and maintainable solutions.
• Experience implementing best practices, optimizing performance, ensuring compliance with security standards, and providing leadership to the engineering team.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills with the ability to delve in low level details with a technical audience and explain concepts at a high level to a non-technical audience

Compensation at Accenture varies depending on a wide array of factors, which may include but are not limited to the specific office location, role, skill set, and level of experience. As required by local law, Accenture provides a reasonable range of compensation for roles that may be hired as set forth below.

We anticipate this job posting will be posted until 08/27/26.

Accenture Flex offers a market competitive suite of benefits including medical, dental, vision, and long-term disability coverage, a 401(k) plan, and paid time off. See more information on our benefits here:

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