At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead large-scale tech projects and ensure successful delivery for major clients.
- Company: Join Accenture, a global leader in professional services and innovation.
- Benefits: Enjoy 30 days vacation, private medical insurance, and extra leave for charity work.
- Other info: Dynamic environment with opportunities for growth and skill development.
- Why this job: Make a real impact with cutting-edge technology and diverse teams.
- Qualifications: Experience in senior tech roles and strong leadership skills required.
The predicted salary is between 59400 - 72600 £ per year.
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 and 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, ranging 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.
In our team you will:
- Operate as the senior accountable leader for large-scale enterprise engineering engagements, taking end-to-end responsibility for successful delivery across mobilisation, planning, staffing, execution, governance, reporting, quality, risk, escalations and client outcomes.
- Lead complex programmes and account delivery across major enterprise clients, working closely with senior client stakeholders, account leadership, engineering teams and delivery partners.
- Bring previous experience as a senior technologist, ideally with a strong background in software engineering, architecture or platform transformation.
- Play an important role in strengthening and growing strategic client accounts, recognising opportunities, supporting propositions and proposals, contributing to commercial conversations, and helping clients define future engineering and transformation roadmaps.
Job Qualifications
We are looking for experience in the following skills:
- Extensive experience operating at Senior Manager level or equivalent, leading large-scale technology, digital engineering or platform transformation programmes across complex enterprise accounts.
- A strong technical background in engineering, software development, architecture, DevOps, cloud platforms or modern product engineering.
- Maintains a deep understanding of the evolving AI landscape and proactively champions the responsible adoption of AI solutions.
- Proven end-to-end delivery accountability, including mobilisation, planning, staffing, execution, governance, financial control, RAID management, executive reporting, quality assurance and delivery recovery.
- Experience leading large, multidisciplinary and distributed teams across multiple workstreams.
- Exceptional senior client relationship management skills, with the ability to build trusted advisor relationships with senior stakeholders.
- Consulting background is highly desirable, particularly within major professional services or technology consulting environments.
- Commercially aware, with experience supporting account management activities.
- Strong problem-solving and escalation management capability.
You will be comfortable representing delivery performance and programme health to both internal and client executive audiences. You will bring the gravitas to operate across senior stakeholder groups, the delivery discipline to ensure commitments are met, and the engineering credibility to challenge, support and guide technical teams towards practical, high-quality outcomes.
You will also contribute to the wider development of our engineering delivery capability, supporting communities of practice, mentoring future leaders, sharing lessons learned across accounts and helping shape how we continue to deliver excellent outcomes for our clients.
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, a car allowance, 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.
Accenture is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all sections of society and does not discriminate on grounds of race, religion or belief, ethnic or national origin, disability, age, citizenship, marital, domestic or civil partnership status, sexual orientation, or gender identity, or any other basis as protected by applicable law.
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