Senior Java Engineer - Birmingham

Senior Java Engineer - Birmingham

Reference Code: -en_GBContract Type:PermanentProfessional Communities: Software Engineering

About the job you're considering

Capgemini are recruiting highly skilled Senior Engineers to join their dynamic team, delivering solutions for a major public sector client. This is an opportunity to work on meaningful projects that impact millions of people, in an environment that values innovation and collaboration.
Our mature Agile environment provides a supportive space to collaborate with specialists from other disciplines. Youll be part of a culture that encourages continuous improvement, knowledge sharing, and technical excellence.
Our Senior Engineer, youll focus on delivering critical digital services from cradle to grave working on a variety of projects featuring high-performance cloud platforms using Java based languages and technologies, and on-premises traditional infrastructure.
Hybrid working: Your working location will vary depending on your role, personal needs, and business requirements. This will typically include a mix of company offices, client sites, and remote work from home. If your location is Telford or Worthing (please note the Worthing office will relocate to Brighton & Hove in the second half of 2026) you will be expected to work from the office between 40% and 70% of the time. For all other locations you need to be prepared to come into the Telford or Worthing office once to twice a month (Lead Engineers more frequently). As we align closely with customer requirements, which may change over time, you will need to remain flexible. Please note that fully remote working (100% from home) is not permitted.
If you are successfully offered this position, you will go through a series of pre-employment checks, including:
identity, nationality (single or dual) or immigration status, employment history going back 3 continuous years, and unspent criminal record check (known as Disclosure and Barring Service).

Your role

Were looking for people who are learning focused, challenge the status quo and are constantly looking to shape their working environment to make it an exciting, fun and interesting place to work.
As a Software Engineer your primary focus will be to deliver user stories whilst working as a part of a multi-disciplined team.Youll be working closely with analysts and designers to build, deploy and support your services using well established software development techniques such as TDD, BDD and pair programming.
Getting involved with all stages of service delivery including testing, configuring, deploying, supporting, and monitoring using industry standard tooling, to truly work in a DevSecOps capacity.
Whilst working in a collaborative environment you are going to meet a variety of different people who, like you, have a wealth of knowledge and experience. As a part of one or more communities, you will have the opportunity to influence how we grow as a delivery centre and how we do things by sharing ideas and working with others to make things better.
Senior engineers are expected to lead by example, fostering a culture of excellence. You will actively mentor junior engineers and support their wellbeing, professional growth, and development, including through effective performance management.

Our culture

Were looking for people who are learning focused, can challenge the status quo and are constantly looking to shape their working environment to make it an exciting, fun and interesting place to work.
Keeping things fresh is something we encourage in our working practices, but the culture of continuous improvement is equally as important in our technical approach to building and delivering modern digital services. Your knowledge and experience will be used to change the way we build solutions including utilising new tools and technologies to solve new problems or improve existing services.
Working on our services means youll be part of a team, but youll also be a part of communities of interest. This means youll always have people on hand to share and discuss ideas and get help when needed. The engineering organisation is engineering led, supporting each other through coaching and mentoring, so if you want to change something its within your power to do so.

Your skills and experience

Key Responsibilities:

• Primary focus is to deliver user stories as part of a multi-disciplined team.
• Build, deploy, and support services using established software development techniques such as TDD, BDD, and pair programming.
• Getting involved with all stages of service delivery including testing, configuring, deploying, supporting, and monitoring using industry standard tooling, to truly work in a DevSecOps capacity.
• Foster a culture of excellence through effective performance management- Actively mentor junior engineers and support their wellbeing, professional growth, and development.
  

Required Competencies:

• Strong technical competence in:
  - Java
  - Spring Boot
  - Open-source integration frameworks
  - TDD, Unit testing and automated integration testing
  - Experience of building RESTful APIs in Spring boot
  - Experience of building loosely coupled synchronous and asynchronous microservices
• Good working knowledge of Spring JPA, AOP, Transactions, SQL and NoSQL databases, containers and container management platforms such as Docker and Kubernetes is desirable.
• Experience of Cloud based infrastructure is desirable, along with an understanding of application security principles, continuous integration and continuous delivery.
• As a well-rounded Agile Software Engineer, we encourage adaptability plus general skills in problem solving, business analysis, quality assurance, application design and architecture to compliment your Java development specialism

We are a Disability Confident Employer

Capgemini is proud to be a Disability Confident Employer (Level 2) under the UK Governments Disability Confident scheme.
As part of our commitment to inclusive recruitment, we will offer an interview to all candidates who:
- Declare they have a disability, and
- Meet the minimum essential criteria for the role.
Please opt in during the application process.

Your security clearance

To be successfully appointed to this role, it is a requirement to obtain Security Check (SC) clearance .
To obtain SC clearance, the successful applicant must have resided continuously within the United Kingdom for the last 5 years, along with other criteria and requirements.
Throughout the recruitment process, you will be asked questions about your security clearance eligibility such as, but not limited to, country of residence and nationality.
Some posts are restricted to sole UK Nationals for security reasons; therefore, you may be asked about your citizenship in the application process.

Make it real what does it mean for you?

You will be empowered to explore, innovate, and progress. You will benefit from Capgeminis learning for life mindset, meaning you will have countless training and development opportunities from thinktanks to hackathons, and access to 250,000 courses with numerous external certifications from AWS, Microsoft, Harvard ManageMentor, Cybersecurity qualifications and much more.
Youll be bringing your unique skills and perspectives to the team, inspiring and taking inspiration from your teammates as you unlock value in everything you do. Youll be joining a professional community of experts, who have got your back and will support you, every step of the way.

Why you should consider Capgemini

Growing clients businesses while building a more sustainable, more inclusive future is a tough ask. When you join Capgemini, youll join a thriving company and become part of a collective of free-thinkers, entrepreneurs and industry experts. We find new ways technology can help us reimagine whats possible. Its why, together, we seek out opportunities that will transform the worlds leading businesses, and its how youll gain the experiences and connections you need to shape your future. By learning from each other every day, sharing knowledge, and always pushing yourself to do better, youll build the skills you want. Youll use your skills to help our clients leverage technology to innovate and grow their business. So, it might not always be easy, but making the world a better place rarely is.

About Capgemini

Capgemini is an AI-powered global business and technology transformation partner, delivering tangible business value. We imagine the future of organisations and make it real with AI, technology and people. With our strong heritage of nearly 60 years, we are a responsible and diverse group of over 420,000 team members in more than 50 countries. We deliver end-to-end services and solutions with our deep industry expertise andstrong partner ecosystem, leveraging our capabilities across strategy, technology, design, engineering and business operations. The Group reported 2025 global revenues of 22.5 billion.
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