Principal Software Engineer - Full Stack in Leeds

Locations: Leeds (must be willing to travel to client sites throughout the UK on an ad hoc basis)

Level: Manager

Salary: Competitive salary and package (Depending on level of experience)

Please Note: Any offer of employment is subject to satisfactory BPSS and SC security clearance which requires 5 years continuous UK address history at the point of application.

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.

As a team: Accenture Software & Platform Engineering is over 1,000 people strong 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 work with clients in every sector. They range from scale-ups through to national and international blue-chip names and public sector organisations. Our teams routinely work on products that are used by millions of people.

We offer an exciting career working in a vibrant environment, with access to training and a global network of experts. As part of our Software & Platform Engineering team, you’ll be working with cutting-edge technologies and will have the opportunity to develop a wide range of new skills on the job.

In our team you will:

• Work hand-in-hand with our clients to build great digital products for them and for their customers.
• Lead client accounts holistically - people, delivery, quality, and commercials.
• Ensure we’re delivering great engineering while keeping the big picture in mind.
• Propose thoughtful solutions that get the job done efficiently and with low complexity.
• Contribute to our internal and regional engineering communities.

Job Qualifications

We are looking for experience in the following skills:

• Significant experience leading teams and growing the careers of team members.
• Building relationships with stakeholders who are expecting to see results.
• Experience building backend services in several different integration paradigms, for example synchronous API-driven, message-driven, and event-driven.
• Fluency in at least one of Java / C# / Python / Typescript or React.
• Recent experience building, deploying, and running cloud-native applications on top of AWS and/or Azure.
• Strong practical experience of defining strategies, building and delivering products & services using Agentic AI.
• Experience working in DevOps teams with industry-standard practices.
• Producing repeatable, automated tests for your own work.
• Enjoy working with people to build things and solve problems together.
• Comfortable with change and always happy to learn something new.

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 30 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 Applications 30/11/2026. Accenture reserves the right to close the role prior to this date should a suitable applicant be found.