Software Engineer - AI Enabled Full Stack Engineer
Location: Belfast
Level: Specialist
Salary: Competitive (based on experience)
Role Overview: Build, own, and evolve next-generation applications that leverage AI tooling, delivering client solutions across the Health and Public Service practice.
What You’ll Do
Build
- Collaborate with business stakeholders to shape requirements and translate them into clean, well‑designed technical solutions.
- Deliver production‑grade Java applications using AI‑assisted development practices (GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, or equivalent).
- Build prototypes and integrations across large complex enterprise systems.
- Contribute to prompt engineering and AI workflow design as part of your standard delivery practice.
Own
- Take accountability for live application health—leading incident response, root‑cause analysis, and rapid resolution.
- Use AI‑assisted diagnostics to identify issues faster and implement robust, versioned fixes.
- Handle JSON/XML message manipulation and database‑level troubleshooting with confidence.
Evolve
- Continuously improve the systems you work on—reducing technical debt, improving resilience, and raising the bar on code quality.
- Apply AI‑enabled tooling to refactoring, test coverage, and monitoring.
- Stay ahead of emerging engineering practices and bring new ideas into the team.
Qualifications
- BSc in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent experience.
- 4+ years’ commercial experience across the full development lifecycle.
- Strong core Java development skills; experience with Spring (Boot, MVC, REST) and API design.
- Strong front‑end development skills; experience with Angular, HTML, CSS, JavaScript.
- Experience with SQL and/or NoSQL databases; familiarity with Hibernate.
- Comfortable working in Agile/Scrum environments using GIT and JIRA.
- Active user of AI‑enabled development tooling (GitHub Copilot, Cursor, ChatGPT, Claude, or similar) and can share how they are used day‑to‑day.
- Strong analytical and problem‑solving mindset; comfortable with ambiguity.
- Clear communicator—written and verbal— with a genuine team‑player attitude.
AI‑Enabled Skills (Essential)
- Demonstrated use of LLM‑based coding assistants to improve productivity, code quality, or test coverage.
- Familiarity with prompt engineering concepts and applying them in a development context.
- Awareness of AI safety and responsible AI use in a software engineering context.
- Experience with designing and implementing agentic workflows within the SDLC, AI‑assisted debugging, or AI‑enabled CI/CD pipelines.
Desirable
- Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and cloud‑native development patterns.
- Familiarity with Kafka, Spring Batch, or event‑driven architectures.
- Knowledge of DevSecOps or SRE practices, particularly where AI tooling has been applied.
What Sets You Apart
We’re especially interested in engineers who can point to specific examples of how AI tooling has changed the way they work—faster delivery, better test coverage, smarter debugging, cleaner architecture.
What’s in It for You
Competitive salary and extensive benefits package. Flexible working arrangements can be discussed depending on the position.
Location
Belfast
Equal Employment Opportunity Statement
All employment decisions shall be made without regard to age, race, creed, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, disability status, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, citizenship status or any other basis as protected by federal, state, or local law.
Job candidates will not be obligated to disclose sealed or expunged records of conviction or arrest as part of the hiring process.
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Application Deadline
Applications close date: 31/05/2026. Accenture reserves the right to close the role prior to this date should a suitable applicant be found.
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