Lead Software Engineer in London

Location: London

Experience: 8 years onwards

About the Job you are considering: We are seeking experienced software engineers with strong expertise in the Banking and Finance domain who will oversee the planning, execution, and successful delivery of projects.

Hybrid working: The places that you work from day to day will vary according to your role, your needs, and those of the business; it will be a blend of Company offices, client sites, and your home; noting that you will be unable to work at home 100% of the time.

Your Role:

• Technology Expertise: You will have experience as the technology expert on a development team where you were responsible for everything from planning to delivering key features and management of those features.
• Agile and Scaled Agile practices: You know about and can lead on a range of Agile and Scaled Agile tools and techniques and be an advocate for these tools and techniques.
• Communication skills: You know how to communicate effectively across organisational, technical, and geographical boundaries, understanding the context.
• Lifecycle perspective: You understand the different phases of product delivery and can contribute to plan or run these.
• Making the process work: You focus on the outcome and can challenge and improve disproportionate organisational processes where it impacts the pace of the team.

Your Skills:

• Technical Experience: Proven experience a minimum of three years as a Technical Lead, Solutions Engineer or similar role working within Agile frameworks and associated architectures.
• Design coding languages and testing deployment tools including Angular 6, Java, JavaScript, JSON, CI/CD pipeline build deployment tools e.g. Bamboo, Microservices, APIs, Cloud experience (AWS, Azure), and serverless code deployment.
• API integration experience (REST preferred, Open API).
• Understanding of event-driven architecture and different AWS deployment methods and skills (e.g. native EC2, Pivotal Cloud Foundry, JVM, Docker, Lambda, Step Function, DynamoDB, SNS/SQS, S3).
• Familiar with design thinking behaviour and test-driven development.
• Experience of SQL database development, SSIS, and cloud deployment (e.g. RDS in AWS).
• Knowledge of containerised deployments and optimisation techniques/tools (e.g. Docker, Fargate, Kubernetes).
• Experience of working with wider project teams including Scrum Masters, Product Owners, Business Analysts, and Testers.
• Experience of producing technical support documentation and writing technical specifications User Stories.
• Experience of working within the full development lifecycle (i.e. development, unit testing, and release management).
• Experience of source code repositories, code branching, and version control systems (e.g. GIT and TFS).
• Keen interest and working attitude to AI and Agentic Workflows.

We are a Disability Confident Employer: 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 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.

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 for us to achieve our organisational ambitions. To help support wellbeing, we have trained ‘Mental Health Champions’ across each of our business areas, and we have invested in wellbeing apps such as Thrive and Peppy. You will be empowered to explore, innovate, and progress. You will benefit from Capgemini’s ‘learning for life’ mindset, meaning you will have countless training and development opportunities from think tanks to hackathons, and access to 250,000 courses with numerous external certifications from AWS, Microsoft, Harvard ManageMentor, Cybersecurity qualifications, and much more.

You will be joining one of the World’s Most Ethical Companies®, as recognised by Ethisphere® for 13 consecutive years. We live our values by making ethical business choices every day. Working ethically is at the centre of our culture at Capgemini, meaning you will be helping to create a future we can all be proud of.

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 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 420,000 team members in more than 50 countries. We deliver end-to-end services and solutions with our deep industry expertise and strong partner ecosystem, leveraging our capabilities across strategy, technology, design, engineering, and business operations. The Group reported 2024 global revenues of €22.1 billion.