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Description
API Developer (SC Eligible)
Location: Newcastle Upon Tyne, Manchester, Edinburgh (Accenture will be recruiting at the following levels: Senior Analyst, Consultant)
“Please Note: Due to the nature of client work you will be undertaking, you will need to be willing to go through a Security Clearance process as part of this role. Furthermore, due to the nature of this role, you will need to be willing and able to work from our Newcastle office 5-days per week.”
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
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 may 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: 31/08/2021
Accenture reserves the right to close the role prior to this date should a suitable applicant be found.
Qualifications
As an API Developer, you will:
• Work as part of a team to deliver features across the technical solution with your focus being on developing APIs on the API Gateway (Apigee).
• Support the DevOps team in implementing version control and schema management for APIs and in setting up the API Gateway and implementing continuous integration and continuous deployment pipelines.
• Support the technical leads in designing the APIs and end-to-end integration. Support the test automation engineers in testing the APIs.
• Follow the Scrum Methodology participating actively in sprint backlog refinement, sprint planning, stand-ups, sprint review and sprint retrospective.
• Support the team in delivering features by expanding capabilities into other areas of development and testing.
The following skills and experience are essential for this role:
• Have experience developing and managing APIs via and API Gateway such as Apigee
• Experience implementing version control and schema management for APIs
• Experience designing and testing APIs
• Capable of working within an Agile Development environment, both as part of a team as well as individually
• Enjoy working in a dynamic, fast paced environment, collaborating with others, contributing to design and estimating discussions and utilising strong stakeholder management skills
• Obtaining satisfactory BPSS and SC security clearance – which requires 5 years continuous UK address history at the point of application.
Set yourself apart:
• Ability to communicate effectively with clients across a range of industry sectors
• Proven history of working within a complex and diverse delivery environment
• Have demonstrable working experience in any of the following; Reactjs, Nodejs, Java programming, Microservices, Docker, NGINX, OAuth2, JWT, Spring Framework, Kafka, Oracle/Golden Gate, OpenShift, Swift Messaging Hub.
• Commercial experience of managing teams across multiple projects
Locations
Edinburgh,Manchester,Newcastle
