Custom Software Engineering Team Lead/Consultant

Accenture • TRAFFIC • England, Not Specified, United Kingdom • 5h ago

Lead Application Developer (API) - Newcastle

Custom Software Engineering Team Lead/Consultant Mid-Level Full time

Due to the nature of client work you will be undertaking, you will need to be willing to go through a Security Clearance process as part of this role, which requires 5+ years of continuous UK residence as well as no gaps of 6 months or more spent outside the UK within those 5 years. This includes a single consecutive 6-month period or multiple trips that add up to 6+ months

Hybrid Working: This role will require you to work from our Newcastle, Cobalt Business Park office 3 days per week.

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.

We believe in inclusion and diversity and supporting the whole person. Our core values comprise of Stewardship, Best People, Client Value Creation, One Global Network, Respect for the Individual and Integrity. Year after year, Accenture is recognized worldwide not just for business performance but for inclusion and diversity too.

"Across the globe, one thing is universally true of the people of Accenture: We care deeply about what we do and the impact we have with our clients and with the communities in which we work and live. It is personal to all of us." - Julie Sweet, Accenture CEO

As a Lead Application Developer, you will:

Champion engineering excellence, advocating practices such as clean code, branching strategy, coding standards, TDD, CI/CD, and continuous testing

Lead the design, development and integration of robust, secure, and scalable API platforms, with experience in Intel Expressway Service Gateway and API Service Gateway operational engineering.

Lead and guide the team through technical challenges and ensure successful delivery of high-quality solutions.

Manage cross-platform application development leveraging container orchestration (e.g. AKS/Kubernetes), messaging backplanes (e.g. Kafka, Zookeeper), and resilient cloud-native design patterns.

Implement standards and best practices, mentor junior developers, and execute development activities in line with the overall delivery plan.

Collaborate with cross-functional teams, provide technical leadership, and contribute to the continuous improvement of our development processes.

Define technical requirements, design and develop scalable applications, and stay updated on emerging technologies and industry trends.

Own operational considerations including deployment automation, performance monitoring, observability and API resilience in production-grade systems.

The following skills and experience and required for this role:

Strong experience in developing and maintaining large-scale backend applications using Java.

Ability to lead, mentor and develop junior developers.

Familiarity with enterprise-grade API gateway products (e.g. Intel Expressway, Kong, Apigee) and applying best practices in API lifecycle management.

Proven background in working with public cloud platforms, with a focus on backend development.

Knowledge of database technologies such as PostgreSQL.

Excellent leadership, communication (written and oral), and interpersonal skills.

Experience in modern application development using CI/CD pipelines (e.g. Jenkins, GitHub Actions), Infrastructure-as-Code, and containerisation via Docker/Kubernetes.

Set yourself apart:

Demonstrate a proven ability to translate complex business needs into robust, secure, and scalable technical solutions

Bring practical knowledge of designing for high availability, fault tolerance, and performance at scale in production-grade systems

Demonstrated experience managing operational resilience, including monitoring (e.g. Prometheus, Grafana), security (e.g. OAuth2, API rate-limiting), and high availability deployments.

Exposure to hybrid and cloud-native architecture patterns, especially in regulated environments.

Are confident debugging and resolving deep technical issues spanning application code, integrations, infrastructure, or performance bottlenecks

Ability to drive innovation within the team.

Stay hands-on with evolving technologies while maintaining a strong architectural mindset that balances agility with long-term maintainability

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 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 may be requirements to spend time onsite with our clients and partners to enable delivery of the first-class services we are known for.

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