Intern – Software Engineering (Emirati National)
About Accenture
Accenture is a global professional services company with leading capabilities in digital, cloud, and security. We combine unmatched experience and specialized skills across industries to help clients become high‑performance businesses.
Program Overview
This internship is designed for UAE Nationals to build core software engineering skills in a client‑delivery environment. You will gain hands‑on experience through future‑ready trainings, live project assignments, and a dedicated mentor and buddy model, with mid‑term checkpoints and a final showcase. High‑performing interns may receive pre‑placement offers for New Associate roles.
What You’ll Do
Build and test applications: Contribute to design, development, unit testing, and documentation under guidance from senior engineers.
Solve real client problems: Translate functional requirements into clean, maintainable code; participate in code reviews and defect resolution.
Adopt engineering best practices: Follow Agile ceremonies, version control workflows, and DevSecOps practices across environments.
Collaborate cross‑functionally: Work with analysts, QA, and Cloud/Platform teams to deliver increments that meet acceptance criteria.
Continuously learn: Complete structured learning sprints and apply modern engineering patterns and cloud services in project tasks.
Demonstrate growth: Present outcomes in the mid‑term checkpoint and final capstone/demo.
Basic Qualifications
UAE National (Emirati) with a valid Family Book.
Currently pursuing or recently completed a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer/Software Engineering, Information Systems, or a related STEM field.
Foundational programming proficiency in at least one of: Java, C#, Python, JavaScript/TypeScript.
Understanding of software engineering fundamentals (data structures, OOP, algorithms), web or API basics, and databases/SQL.
Effective communication, collaboration, and problem‑solving skills; strong learning agility.
What We Offer
A structured internship with curated learning paths, classroom/VILT sessions, and on‑the‑job development, supported by assigned mentor and buddy.
Mid‑term feedback, a final presentation, and consideration for a conversion to New Associate (ML13) upon successful completion and business need.
Exposure to priority capability areas and UAE university cohorts targeted in the ME Internship Program.
Dubai
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