Project Role: Custom Software Engineer

Project Role Description: Develop custom software solutions to design, code, and enhance components across systems or applications. Use modern frameworks and agile practices to deliver scalable, high-performing solutions tailored to specific business needs.

Must have skills: Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

Good to have skills: NA

Minimum 5 year(s) of experience is required

Educational Qualification: 15 years full time education

Summary:

As a Custom Software Engineer, you will engage in the development of custom software solutions that are designed to meet specific business needs. Your typical day will involve coding, enhancing components, and collaborating with various teams to ensure the delivery of scalable and high-performing solutions. You will utilize modern frameworks and agile practices to drive the software development process, ensuring that the solutions are not only effective but also efficient in addressing the unique challenges faced by the organization.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Expected to be an SME.
• Take ownership of the development and testing of one or more Python services/applications, intended to serve the needs of future Data Engineers on the new Sky Data Platform.
• Support Principal Engineer (Accenture) to establish Engineering standards and processes.
• Ensure software solution provides generic, standardized framework components to underpin an extensible platform that can grow into the future.
• Work with Principal Engineer and Sky Product Owners to identify, capture and impact technical debt items
• Strong communication skills, written & verbal
• Pragmatic and outcome-driven, with a strong focus on regular rapid incremental value delivery Senior resources:
• Technical confidence and ability to mentor and guide junior engineers

Professional & Technical Skills:

• Strong Python skills, inc. packaging and publishing
• Strong Software Engineering skills, inc. knowledge of best practices, SWE design patterns, testing strategies, branching strategies.
• Strong Py Spark Data Engineering skills, both at individual pipeline and platform levels
• Ideally experience with Open-source Apache Spark on YARN (GCP Dataproc / AWS EMR / Azure HDInsight)
• Experience in building robust, reusable data platform components using industry-recognized techniques
• Good data pipeline, query and data optimization skills
• Good general CI/CD skills (Cloud Build is ideal)
• Some Docker / containerization skills (Cloud Run or similar is ideal)
• Some bash / Linux experience
• Nice to have: Iceberg or similar

Additional Information:

• The candidate should have minimum 5 years of experience in Google Cloud Platform.
• This position is based at our Bengaluru office.
• A 15 years full time education is required.

15 years full time education

About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities.
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