Principal Software Engineer

In this Principal Consultant role within Accenture Software & Platform Engineering, you guide large-scale client programs, shaping product engineering and delivery strategy. You lead teams, foster strong stakeholder relationships, and drive value through scalable, low-complexity engineering. You’ll work across domains and stacks, advancing cloud-native solutions and pioneering AI-enabled capabilities. This is a high-impact role with opportunities to influence client outcomes and our internal engineering communities.

• 30 days vacation per year
• private medical insurance
• 3 extra days leave for charitable work
• extensive benefits package
• mobility to spend time onsite with clients

• Lead client accounts holistically: people, delivery, quality, and commercial aspects
• Guide engineering teams to deliver high-impact digital products for clients
• Foster stakeholder relationships to ensure measurable results and value
• Define strategies and oversee building and running cloud-native applications
• Promote repeatable testing, automation, and DevOps practices
• Contribute to internal and regional engineering communities and knowledge sharing
• Advocate for simple, value-driven engineering approaches with low complexity

• Significant experience leading teams and growing team members
• Experience building backend services across synchronous, message-driven, and event-driven paradigms
• Fluency in Java, C#, Python, TypeScript, or React
• Recent experience deploying cloud-native apps on AWS and/or Azure
• Practical experience defining product/service strategies and delivering outcomes using AI capabilities (Agentic AI)
• Experience in DevOps environments and automated testing
• Strong collaboration skills and stakeholder management
• Comfort with change and diverse tech stacks in consultancy

• collaborative
• egoless mindset
• stakeholder management
• Java
• C#
• Python