Software Engineer - Manchester

Software Engineer – Manchester at Accenture UK & Ireland

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.

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.

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 organisations. Our teams regularly develop products that reach and impact millions of users.

Responsibilities

• 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

Skills / Qualifications

• A few years of industry experience in either Java, Typescript, Python, or Go
• Hands‑on experience with GenAI, or evidence of actively pursuing personal GenAI projects outside of work
• Experience with Cloud Native technologies on AWS
• Hands‑on experience in scripting languages such as Python, Shell, and other scripting languages to support DevOps and Quality Engineering work
• Build automation tools to support CI/CD pipeline
• 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’s 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.

Closing date for this role is 28/01/26

Seniority level

Mid‑Senior level

Employment type

Full‑time

Job function

Information Technology and Engineering (Software Development)

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