Intern - Software Engineering (Emirati National)

About Accenture

Accenture is a global professional services company with leading capabilities in digital, cloud, and security. We combine unmatched experience and specialized skills across industries to help clients become high-performance businesses.

Program Overview

This internship is designed for UAE Nationals to build core software engineering skills in a client-delivery environment. You will gain hands-on experience through future-ready trainings , live project assignments , and a dedicated mentor and buddy model, with mid-term checkpoints and a final showcase. High-performing interns may receive pre-placement offers for New Associate roles.

What You'll Do

• Build and test applications: Contribute to design, development, unit testing, and documentation under guidance from senior engineers.
• Solve real client problems: Translate functional requirements into clean, maintainable code; participate in code reviews and defect resolution.
• Adopt engineering best practices: Follow Agile ceremonies, version control workflows, and DevSecOps practices across environments.
• Collaborate cross-functionally: Work with analysts, QA, and Cloud/Platform teams to deliver increments that meet acceptance criteria.
• Continuously learn: Complete structured learning sprints and apply modern engineering patterns and cloud services in project tasks.
• Demonstrate growth: Present outcomes in the mid-term checkpoint and final capstone/demo.

Basic Qualifications

• UAE National (Emirati) with a valid Family Book.
• Currently pursuing or recently completed a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer/Software Engineering, Information Systems, or a related STEM field.
• Foundational programming proficiency in at least one of: Java, C#, Python, JavaScript/TypeScript.
• Understanding of software engineering fundamentals (data structures, OOP, algorithms), web or API basics, and databases/SQL.
• Effective communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills; strong learning agility.

What We Offer

• A structured internship with curated learning paths, classroom/VILT sessions, and on-the-job development, supported by assigned mentor and buddy.
• Mid-term feedback, a final presentation, and consideration for a conversion to New Associate (ML13) upon successful completion and business need.
• Exposure to priority capability areas and UAE university cohorts targeted in the ME Internship Program.

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.
Visit us at www.accenture.com

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