Job Summary
Join Capgemini’s Financial Services Business Unit within the C&CA (Cloud & Custom Applications) practice as a Lead Java Developer (CIAM). Guided by our vision to “Consult with Purpose. Continuously Evolve. Architect Tomorrow.”, you will lead the design and delivery of scalable, secure identity and access management solutions that underpin digital customer experiences. This role combines hands-on engineering with technical leadership, enabling you to shape modern architectures, guide teams, and deliver resilient, user-focused systems. As a trusted, AI-aware lead engineer, you will drive quality outcomes while contributing to a future-ready, high-performing engineering workforce.
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.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the design and delivery of scalable, secure applications supporting identity and access management capabilities
- Drive the evolution of microservice and event-driven architectures to improve flexibility, performance, and resilience
- Own technical quality and delivery outcomes, ensuring solutions meet business, security, and user experience expectations
- Collaborate with stakeholders to translate requirements into clear, deliverable solution designs
- Guide and mentor engineers, fostering strong engineering practices and continuous capability development
- Enable efficient, reliable delivery by improving integration, release, and deployment approaches
- Ensure high standards in code quality, maintainability, and design through best practice leadership
- Support system stability through proactive monitoring, troubleshooting, and continuous improvement
- Contribute to reusable patterns and standards that strengthen engineering consistency across teams
- Apply AI awareness to enhance development practices, productivity, and innovation
Must-Have Skills
- Strong experience in Java-based enterprise application development
- Proven experience leading or guiding engineering teams in delivery environments
- Deep understanding of microservice and event-driven architecture patterns
- Experience designing secure, scalable APIs and integration solutions
- Strong understanding of identity and access management concepts and secure application design
- Proven experience delivering customer-facing, user-centric applications
- Solid understanding of clean code principles and maintainable software design
- Experience working with relational databases and data modelling concepts
- Familiarity with container-based application development approaches
- Strong collaboration, communication, and stakeholder engagement skills
- Ability to operate with ownership, guiding delivery in complex and evolving environments
Good-to-Have Skills
- Experience with Spring Boot or Spring Framework
- Familiarity with messaging technologies such as MQ, JMS, or QuickFIX/J
- Experience with Angular or modern JavaScript frameworks
- Knowledge of HTML and CSS for front-end collaboration
- Exposure to CI/CD tools such as TeamCity, GitLab CI, or similar
- Familiarity with container technologies such as Docker
- Experience with observability and monitoring tools
- Experience working within CIAM or identity-focused platforms and implementations
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 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 thinktanks 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.
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