Front End Engineering Associate Manager (GenAI experience)

Role- Front End Engineering Associate Manager
Location: London
Level- Associate Manager
Accenture Song accelerates growth and value for our clients by combining creativity, technology, and data-driven intelligence. Within Song, our Agentic Commerce practice helps organisations design, build, and scale modern digital commerce ecosystems — embedding Generative AI and Agentic AI into commerce to enable real-time personalisation, autonomous merchandising, and intelligent customer engagement at scale.
About the role:
We’re especially looking for individuals who are experts in front-end engineering for mobile or web platforms, with deep experience in modern frameworks and performance optimization. You’ll bring hands-on experience with generative AI technologies and understand how to apply them to enhance product experiences. Consulting experience is also key — you’ll be comfortable engaging with clients, shaping solutions, and driving strategic outcomes.
If you're looking for a challenging and rewarding career 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 have the chance to develop a wide range of new skills on the job and work with cutting-edge technologies. So why wait? Join us and take your career to new heights.
As a Front End Engineering Assoc. Manager, you will:
Drive measurable growth and delivery impact across our customer technology product engineering practice
Shape and scale client product and platform engineering capabilities (operating model, team topology, and delivery practices)
Build trusted senior client relationships and align stakeholders on clear outcomes, scope, and measures of success
Lead engineering across large digital and agile transformation programmes, improving predictability, quality, and delivery pace
Set the web front-end technical direction, including architecture, engineering standards, and governance
Raise the bar for web quality and reliability by championing testing, accessibility, performance (Core Web Vitals) and production observability
Identify, prototype and scale Generative AI use cases in products and delivery workflows, ensuring responsible adoption and measurable value
Grow and retain high-performing teams through coaching, feedback, hiring support, and clear progression pathways
Create and evolve reusable assets (e.g., Next.js accelerators, design system patterns, and delivery playbooks) and represent the practice internally and externally
Partner with Product, Design, Data and Engineering to deliver user-centred web products from discovery through to production
Job Qualifications
We are looking for experience in the following:
Experience in front end engineering
Experience building with modern web frontend technologies and frameworks (React/Next.js). Mobile experience is a plus (iOS/Android/React Native)
Strong JavaScript/TypeScript skills and experience with modern React patterns (hooks, context, state management)
Experience with frontend testing strategies and tools (unit, integration and end-to-end), e.g., Jest/Vitest, React Testing Library, Playwright/Cypress
Accessibility-first delivery (WCAG), including semantic HTML and assistive technology testing
Web performance optimisation and profiling, including Core Web Vitals, bundle analysis and code-splitting
Deep experience building web applications with Next.js, including SSR/SSG/ISR patterns, routing and data-fetching
Strong UI engineering fundamentals: responsive design, modern CSS, and cross-browser compatibility
Experience contributing to and evolving design systems/component libraries (governance, documentation, and adoption)
Frontend build tooling and developer experience (e.g., Vite/Webpack, monorepos, linting/formatting, dependency management)
Production observability and debugging (frontend monitoring, error tracking, and analytics instrumentation)
Frontend security fundamentals (e.g., XSS/CSRF, secure authentication flows, and secure handling of client-side data)
Use of Generative AI within your workflows and/or products you are creating
Created proven scalable solutions, especially with AI
Eperience with integrating cloud services directly into complex solutions (GraphQL/Restful APIs)
Experience in agile environments for digital product creation
Broad experience in modern engineering practices including:
Systems Architecture
Front End Engineering
Platform & SRE Engineering
Quality Engineering
CI/CD
Set yourself apart:
Presented your work at an event or conference
Experience developing short & long-term plans for product growth and transformation
Track record at engaging with leadership as a trusted advisor
What’s in it for you:
Our Total Rewards consist of a competitive basic salary, annual performance bonus, opportunities to acquire equity and a wide range of health and wellbeing benefits. These include perks such as:
25 days of leave to spend each year plus 3 extra volunteering days per year for charitable work of choice.
Family-friendly and flexible work policies.
Attractive pension plan with financial wellbeing support and resources.
Private healthcare insurance plan and Mental Wellbeing support.
Employee Assistance Programme, Career Development and Counselling.
A range of generous Parental Leave offerings.
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 outstanding services we are known for.
Please note that with all our roles, you should expect some in-person time for collaboration, learning and building rapport with clients, peers, leaders and communities. As an employer, we will be as flexible as possible to support your specific work/life needs.
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