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Accenture

Front-End Development Manager

Accenture, Ottawa, ON


Who We Are:

Accenture Song accelerates growth and value for our clients through sustained customer relevance. Our capabilities span ideation to execution: growth, product and experience design; technology and experience platforms; creative, media and marketing strategy; and campaign, content and channel orchestration. With strong client relationships and deep industry expertise, we help our clients operate at the speed of life through the unlimited potential of imagination, technology and intelligence. Visit us at: www.accenture.com/song

Digital Products creates value for our clients, their employees, and their customers. We design and build impactful experiences fueled by Technology that change the way people work and live. With expertise in product strategy, design, innovation, and delivery transformation at scale, assisting with design thinking, integrating user-experience design/research, and impeccable development for native mobile, web, and embedded systems, we will help bring clarity to any omni-channel product vision.

There will never be a typical day at Accenture Song, but that's why people love it here. The opportunities to make a difference while working on exciting client initiatives are limitless in this ever-changing space. Here's a snapshot of your responsibilities:

The work:
  • Provide technical leadership on enterprise scale front-end web application projects while concurrently overseeing other development teams on multiple projects; possibly across different offices and geographies
  • Strong attention to technical detail and an understanding of UX and visual design concepts to provide perspective on front end technologies and their overall impact on the development process.
  • Oversee and participate in design, architecture, documentation, development, debugging, and deployment efforts while addressing cross-browser and cross-platform concepts and concerns
  • Create project estimates, define scope requirements, structure projects, develop coding standards, methodology and repeatable processes
  • Create and distribute reusable sales and delivery content to internal and external design, business, sales, technical counterparts, and leadership to hone their knowledge of front-end development
  • Identify opportunities for research and development, and build innovative prototypes that demonstrate our industry leadership
  • Apply strong business and client facing abilities to support business development opportunities and build long-term relationships in addition to managing project delivery
  • Mentor developers both from technical and career path perspectives


Here's what you need:
  • 7+ years of experience with core web technologies (HTML, CSS, JavaScript), build tools, and UI libraries.
  • 5+ years of experience with React, including related libraries and frameworks/meta-frameworks.
  • 2+ years of experience with Adobe Experience Manager front-end, Core Components, and hand-off of UI to content management system development teams.
  • 5+ years of leading development teams in the Agile/Scrum methodology including creation of project estimates, defining technical solutions based on scope requirements, and reviewing outputs from the team.
  • Experience with Website Performance tools and achieving high scores for Core Web Vitals.
  • Experience architecting for and delivering on Accessibility criteria (WCAG 2.0 AA).
  • Bilingual English/French speaking with the ability to converse in both technical and business conversations.
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience.
  • English is required for this position as this role will regularly interact with stakeholders across Canada, US and other countries across our Global footprint where English is the common language. Due to the significant high volume of interactions with these English-speaking stakeholders, which is inherent to this position, it is not possible to reorganize the company's activities to avoid this requirement.
  • Eligibility to obtain Security Reliability clearance in a reasonable timeframe.


Bonus points if:
  • You have experience working at an advertising/design/consulting agency or web startup.
  • You've led development teams across geographies.
  • You possess broad full stack architectural expertise in order to seamlessly integrate front end technology into the overall technical solution.
  • You're able to solve complex development problems while striving to push the technical boundaries of online applications.
  • You are process-oriented with ability to define and ensure quality delivery of the development team.


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 750,000 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. We are uniquely able to deliver tangible outcomes because of our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song. These capabilities, 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. Visit us at www.accenture.com

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