You Are

A self-directed engineer who owns work end to end from discovery and design through delivery and support. You confidently prioritize and execute complex initiatives, balancing speed, quality, and long-term maintainability while engaging directly with clients and stakeholders.

• You consistently apply software engineering best practices, designing scalable, secure, and resilient systems using modern frameworks and tooling. You write clean, well-tested, production-ready code and hold yourself and others to a high bar for quality.
• You thrive in ambiguous environments, proactively identifying risks and opportunities, and driving solutions with minimal oversight. You are deeply invested in continuous learning and technical excellence, regularly modernizing systems and improving developer workflows.
• You are a collaborative technical leader, mentoring teammates, sharing knowledge, influencing architectural decisions, and partnering effectively across engineering, product, and client teams to achieve organizational goals.

The Work

You will lead the design and delivery of complex features and systems, taking full ownership of outcomes. This includes architecting solutions, implementing high-quality code, and ensuring reliability, performance, and test coverage throughout the lifecycle.

• You will proactively identify technical debt, scalability concerns, and modernization opportunities, driving improvements to frameworks, tooling, and infrastructure.
• You will champion best practices around testing, observability, and maintainability.
• Collaboration is core to the role. You will mentor engineers, contribute to cross-functional initiatives, and work closely with product, operations, and other departments to deliver cohesive solutions.
• You will also engage directly with clients, clearly communicating technical concepts, progress, trade-offs, and recommendations.

Travel may be required for this role. The amount of travel will vary from 0 to 100% depending on business need and client requirements.

Here's what you need

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent (minimum 12 years) work experience. (If Associate's Degree, must have minimum 6 years work experience)
• Minimum 8 years of hands-on programming experience with Python, including writing, debugging, and maintaining production-quality code, etc.
• Minimum of 1 year experience with at least two of the following: Linux Systems Administration, Docker / Kubernetes, or a modern JavaScript framework (like React or NodeJS), DevOps
• Minimum of 2 years of experience in a platform engineering or developer role
• Minimum of 1 year of experience with IaC tools, e.g. Terraform

Professional Skills Requirements

• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences

Bonus points if you have

• Experience in Artificial Intelligence (AI), Large Language Model (LLM), or High-Performance Computing (HPC)
• Strong proficiency in Linux, with a deep understanding of operating systems at the kernel level
• Knowledge of AWS services, particularly EC2, Lambda, EKS, and Fargate
• Experience with full-stack application development, particularly using cloud provider APIs
• Experience developing and maintaining cloud infrastructure with Terraform

Compensation at Accenture varies depending on a wide array of factors, which may include but are not limited to the specific office location, role, skill set, and level of experience. As required by local law, Accenture provides a reasonable range of compensation for roles that may be hired as set forth below.
We anticipate this job posting will be posted until 08/02/2026.

Accenture offers a market competitive suite of benefits including medical, dental, vision, life, and long-term disability coverage, a 401(k) plan, bonus opportunities, paid holidays, and paid time off. See more information on our benefits here:

U.S. Employee Benefits | Accenture

Role Location Annual Salary Range
California $94,400 to $293,800
Cleveland $87,400 to $235,000
Colorado $94,400 to $253,800
District of Columbia $100,500 to $270,300
Illinois $87,400 to $253,800
Maine $80,400 to $216,200
Maryland $94,400 to $253,800
Massachusetts $94,400 to $270,300
Minnesota $94,400 to $253,800
New York $87,400 to $293,800
New Jersey $100,500 to $293,800
Virginia $87,400 to $270,300
Washington $100,500 to $270,300