IT & Software

Principal Software Engineer

Accenture

Leeds · West Yorkshire · United Kingdom

Overview

In this Principal Software Engineer role, you will lead multi-disciplinary teams to deliver end-to-end digital products for diverse clients. You’ll balance hands-on engineering with people leadership, shaping delivery, quality, and client value. The role spans multiple domains, offering exposure to cutting-edge tech and cloud-native deployments. You’ll contribute to internal tech communities and drive impactful solutions in a consultancy setting.

Pay / Benefits
  • 30 days’ vacation per year
  • private medical insurance
  • 3 extra days leave per year for charitable work
Responsibilities
  • Lead client accounts holistically, covering people, delivery, quality, and commercial aspects
  • Grow and mentor engineering teams and teammates
  • Design and deliver backend services across multiple integration paradigms (API-driven, message-driven, event-driven)
  • Build, deploy, and operate cloud-native apps on AWS and/or Azure
  • Define product/service strategies and enable value-driven outcomes using AI capabilities
  • Participate in internal and regional engineering communities to share knowledge and shape tech conversations
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver high-impact digital products
Key requirements
  • Significant experience leading teams and mentoring engineers
  • Strong stakeholder relationship management with a results focus
  • Extensive backend experience across integration paradigms
  • Fluency in Java, C#, Python, TypeScript, or React
  • Recent experience with cloud-native deployments on AWS and/or Azure
  • Experience defining strategies and delivering products/services using AI (Agentic AI) with professional-level certification (optional)
  • Background in DevOps practices and automated testing
  • Collaborative, adaptable, egoless problem-solving mindset
  • collaboration
  • adaptability
  • stakeholder management
  • Java
  • C#
  • Python

Reference: WJ-747_31170401 · Posted 01 Nov 2026

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