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Job Description
Technical Lead (SC Eligible)
Location: Newcastle (Client Location) Office Locations: Newcastle, Manchester, Edinburgh or Glasgow.
Salary: £36,000 - £55,000 (+ depending on experience)
Accenture will be recruiting at the following levels: Consultant, Associate Manager
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.
“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 team:
Our Advanced Technology Centre is a thriving technology and innovation hub from where we deliver high quality services to a number of private and public sector clients.
You'll learn, grow and advance in an innovative culture that thrives on shared success, diverse ways of thinking and enables boundaryless opportunities that can drive your career in new and exciting ways
If you’re looking for a challenging career working in a vibrant environment with access to training and a global network of experts, this could be the role for you. As part of our global 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 learn:
- How to provide solutions to real world problems across a variety of industries.
- How to help transform leading organisations and communities around the world. The sheer scale of our capabilities and client engagements and the way we collaborate, operate and deliver value provides an unparalleled opportunity to grow and advance.
- How best to develop your skills and hone your talents within an innovative technology environment
Qualifications
As a Technical Lead, you will:
- Work with a Product Owner, technical architects and a scrum team to translate user and business needs, patterns and guidelines into technical design for a scrum team to utilise whilst delivering features
- Contribute towards continually improving ways of working to deliver quality solutions, supporting you scrum team in following the ways of working such as Branching Strategy, Test Driven Development, Continuous Integration and Continuous Testing
- Ensure non-functional requirements are designed for explicitly and tested thoroughly
The following skills and experience are essential for this role:
- Experienced understanding business needs, working with technical architects to understand the patterns for different platforms and technical components within a solution and then defining the technical design for a business feature and supporting the development team in implementing it.
- Able to discuss a technical design with stakeholders with different degrees of technical knowledge and different interests in the solution.
- Experienced in the design and development of complex solutions across two or more of the following technologies: Custom Java Microservices, Kafka, Oracle DB, Apigee, IBM MQ/ACE/ITx
- Experienced in expressing technical designs in diagrams e.g. class diagrams
- Experienced supporting a development team in ensuring code quality, security, performance, resilience, recoverability and operability.
- Satisfactory BPSS and SC security clearance – which requires 5 years continuous UK address history at the point of application
Set yourself apart:
- Have worked in an agile environment.
- Have a good understanding of designing and implementing secure systems.
- Have experience in Financial Services systems
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, gym subsidy, 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.
About Accenture
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. We combine unmatched experience and specialized capabilities across more than 40 industries — powered by the world’s largest network of Advanced Technology and Intelligent Operations centers. With 509,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries, Accenture brings continuous innovation to help clients improve their performance and create lasting value across their enterprises. Visit us at www.accenture.com
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.
Closing Date for Applications: 31/01/2021
Accenture reserves the right to close the role prior to this date should a suitable applicant be found.
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Job candidates will not be obligated to disclose sealed or expunged records of conviction or arrest as part of the hiring process.
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