Senior Java Engineer in Manchester

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, with a culture that encourages continuous improvement, knowledge sharing, and technical excellence.

As a Senior Engineer, you’ll 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 typically includes a mix of company offices, client sites, and remote work from home. If your location is Telford or Worthing (Worthing office relocating 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). Fully remote working (100% from home) is not permitted.

Your role: We’re 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. You’ll work closely with analysts and designers to build, deploy and support your services using established software development techniques such as TDD, BDD and pair programming. You’ll be involved in all stages of service delivery including testing, configuring, deploying, supporting, and monitoring using industry‑standard tooling, operating in a DevSecOps capacity. You will contribute to a culture of collaboration, knowledge sharing and continuous improvement, and have opportunities to influence how we grow as a delivery centre by sharing ideas and working with others to improve products and services. Senior engineers are expected to lead by example, mentor junior engineers, and support their wellbeing, professional growth and development, including through effective performance management.

Our Culture: We encourage continuous improvement in our technical approach to building and delivering modern digital services. You’ll be part of communities of interest and work within an engineering‑led organisation that supports coaching, mentoring and collaborative change.

• 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.
• Get involved in all stages of service delivery including testing, configuring, deploying, supporting, and monitoring using industry standard tooling, in a DevSecOps capacity.
• Foster a culture of excellence through effective performance management and actively mentor junior engineers, supporting their wellbeing and professional growth.

Your skills and experience:

• 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, and continuous integration and continuous delivery.
• As a well‑rounded Agile Software Engineer, adaptability and general skills in problem solving, business analysis, quality assurance, application design and architecture to complement Java development.

Disability and security: Capgemini is proud to be a Disability Confident Employer (Level 2) under the UK Government’s Disability Confident scheme. As part of our commitment to inclusive recruitment, we 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 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’d be joining an accredited Great Place to Work for Wellbeing in 2024. Employee wellbeing is vitally important to us as an organisation. We see a healthy and happy workforce as a critical component of our ambitions. We have trained Mental Health Champions across each of our business areas and have invested in wellbeing apps such as Thrive and Peppy.

Why you should consider Capgemini: Growing clients’ businesses while building a more sustainable, more inclusive future is a tough ask. When you join Capgemini, you’ll 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 what’s possible. It’s why, together, we seek out opportunities that will transform the world’s leading businesses, and it’s how you’ll 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, you’ll build the skills you want. You’ll 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 a global business and technology transformation partner, helping organisations to accelerate their dual transition to a digital and sustainable world, while creating tangible impact for enterprises and society. It is a responsible and diverse group of 340,000 team members in more than 50 countries. With its strong over 55‑year heritage, Capgemini is trusted by its clients to unlock the value of technology to address the entire breadth of their business needs. It delivers end‑to‑end services and solutions leveraging strengths from strategy and design to engineering, all fuelled by its market leading capabilities in AI, generative AI, cloud and data, combined with its deep industry expertise and partner ecosystem.