Application Lead

Role Summary

As an Application Lead, you will lead the design, build, configuration, and maintenance of enterprise applications while serving as the primary point of contact for technical delivery. This role requires strong leadership, architecture expertise, and stakeholder management capabilities to ensure solutions align with business objectives and operational requirements. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, drive technical decision-making, and provide guidance on best practices throughout the application lifecycle.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the design, development, configuration, deployment, and maintenance of enterprise applications.
• Act as the primary technical lead and key point of contact for application-related initiatives.
• Drive solution architecture decisions to ensure scalability, reliability, security, and business alignment.
• Collaborate with business stakeholders, project teams, and technology partners to gather requirements and translate them into technical solutions.
• Oversee application releases, configuration management, and deployment activities.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to development and support teams, fostering continuous learning and professional growth.
• Establish and implement best practices for application design, configuration, maintenance, and operational excellence.
• Ensure applications meet performance, usability, security, and compliance requirements.
• Lead troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and resolution of complex technical issues.
• Assess, recommend, and implement improvements to application performance, user experience, and operational efficiency.
• Support application migration, modernization, and rationalization initiatives across the technology landscape.
• Promote a collaborative and innovative team culture focused on continuous improvement and problem-solving.
• Engage in strategic and operational decision-making across multiple teams and workstreams.

• 8 years Strong experience leading enterprise application design, development, and support initiatives.
• Proven expertise in DevSecOps practices, application lifecycle management, and release governance.
• Experience designing and implementing scalable cloud-based solutions, preferably within AWS environments.
• Strong understanding of application architecture, integration patterns, and modernization strategies.
• Demonstrated ability to lead technical teams and drive delivery across multiple stakeholders and workstreams.
• Excellent communication, collaboration, and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience working in complex enterprise environments with a focus on operational excellence and business value delivery.

Key Success Measures

• Successful delivery of application development and maintenance initiatives.
• High-quality solution architecture aligned to business objectives.
• Improved application performance, reliability, and user experience.
• Effective release and deployment management with minimal operational disruption.
• Successful execution of application migration and modernization programs.
• Strong team engagement, capability development, and knowledge sharing.

Compensation at Accenture varies depending on a wide array of factors, which may include but are not limited to the specific office location, role, skill set, and level of experience. As required by local law, Accenture provides a reasonable range of compensation, based on full-time employment, for roles that may be hired as set forth below. The recruiting efforts for this position are intended to fill a brand new position. The base pay range shown below is intended as a guideline to reflect the majority of offers for this role. It does not represent a maximum limit - in some cases, actual compensation may exceed the range where appropriate.

Information on benefits is here.

Role Location Annual Salary Range British Columbia/Ontario/New Brunswick $74,000 to $124,000

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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