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Custom Software Engineering Lead

Chennai, India Full-time
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Added 7 Nov 2026 · Engineering

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Project Role : Custom Software Engineering Lead Project Role Description : Own the technical direction and architecture of custom software solutions, leading teams through design and delivery. Set development standards and ensure code quality, scalability, and performance aligned to business objectives. Must have skills : Java Enterprise Edition Good to have skills : Spring Boot, JavaScript Minimum 5 year(s) of experience is required Educational Qualification : 15 years full time education Summary: A Software Engineer is taking part in all relevant steps of design ing and creating new systems. This process starts with involve ments in the initial idea, planning & design to actual coding, doc umenting and testing. It continues with the roll-out and the contin uous maintenance and optimization as well as the support of the solution built. These tasks are usually undertaken by a product team consisting of Software Engineers plus other professions sharing tasks and responsibilities. Each member carries out a particular step of the development process. Roles & Responsibilities: Writing and implementing effective, secure and maintainable software - Quality assurance: Testing (Unit, developer, integration, UI, performance) incl. test automation as well as manual testing and smoke tests - Database: design & optimization - Maintenance of build pipelines, related infrastructure and middleware - Software craftsmanship, ensuring inner software quality, Clean code, peer-review, pair-programming - Identification of potential for synergies, optimizations and refactorings - Exchange with stakeholder: feature evaluation, planning, discussion & consulting, gain and share insights into business domain - Operations & monitoring of delivered artefacts and products - 3rd level support - Special responsibilities e.g. release management - Work closely with other developers, PO, UX/UI designers, business and systems analysts as well as other stakeholders Professional & Technical Skills: has practical experience in one or more relevant programming language and framework - has analytical and problem-solving skills - adheres to clean code principles - has practiced different software development techniques (e.g. TDD, BDD, ATDD, Pair Programming, etc.) - has the creativity in finding innovative and effective solutions - has a strong identification with the respective product and takes responsibility - is ideally a good communicator and thus able to consult stakeholders as well as other members of the team Additional Information: - The candidate should have minimum 5 years of experience in Java Enterprise Edition. - This position is based at our Chennai office. - A 15 years full time education is required. 15 years full time education Important Notice We have been alerted to the existence of fraudulent messages asking job seekers to set up payment to cover various costs associated with establishing employment at Accenture. No one is ever required to pay for employment at Accenture. If you are contacted by someone asking for payment, please do not respond, and contact us at india.fc.check@accenture.com immediately. Equal Employment Opportunity Statement All employment decisions shall be made without regard to age, race, creed, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, disability status, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, citizenship status or any other basis as protected by federal, state, or local law. Please read Accenture’s Recruiting and Hiring Statement for more information on how we process your data during the Recruiting and Hiring process.
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Experience mentioned: 5+ years

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