Skills

Communication Java Splunk Docker Monitoring Training Architecture Risk Mitigation Regression AWS Agile Recruitment AWS Cloud Junit Spring Spring Boot Kafka Terraform Microservices

Job Specifications

About the Job you are considering:

We are looking for a Back End Engineer to join our Personal Investor Product Technology team.You will help design build and support modern cloud native backend services that power the UK Personal Investor platform enabling customers to invest manage accounts and interact with Vanguard products in a secure and reliable way. This role focuses on backend engineering API development cloud deployment automation and production grade reliability operating in a regulated financial services environment

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:

Strong experience in backend development using Java preferably Spring Spring Boot
Experience designing and building REST APIs and backend services
Experience working in cloud environments ideally AWS
Familiarity with microservices architecture and distributed systems concepts
Experience with CICD pipelines and automated deployments
Strong understanding of automated testing practices JUnit integration testing etc
Strong communication skills and ability to work in collaborative Agile teams
Preferred Skills
Experience with AWS services such as ECS Lambda S3 DynamoDB RDS IAM CloudWatch
InfrastructureasCode experience CloudFormationTerraform
Experience with containerisation and orchestration Docker KubernetesECS
Experience with observability tools Splunk Datadog CloudWatch ELK
Knowledge of eventdriven architecture Kafka SNSSQS
Financial services investment platform exposure ISA pensions funds trading onboarding workflows
Experience working in highly regulated environments
Design and develop scalable backend applications and RESTful APIs supporting personal investor journeys
Build and maintain microservices using modern backend frameworks eg Java Spring Boot
Deliver new platform features by translating business requirements into clean maintainable technical solutions
Ensure services are designed for performance resilience and long-term scalability
Build and deploy applications using an AWS cloud stack
Contribute to InfrastructureasCode practices using tools such as CloudFormation or Terraform equivalent
Support cloud-based application operations including logging monitoring alerting and performance tuning
Contribute to automated pipelines enabling continuous integration and continuous deployment
Improve developer productivity through automation and tooling
Ensure deployments follow best practices for secure release and operational readiness
Testing Quality Engineering
Write and maintain automated tests unit integration regression
Ensure quality gates are met before release into production
Participate in code reviews and uphold engineering best practices
Collaboration Agile Delivery
Work closely with product owners architects QA engineers and other developers to deliver iterative product improvements
Participate in Agile ceremonies including sprint planning daily standups and retrospectives
Provide support during production incidents and contribute to root cause analysis and continuous improvement
Ensure applications meet internal security standards and comply with financial services regulations
Apply secure coding principles and contribute to risk mitigation activities

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.

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About the Company

Capgemini is a global business and technology transformation partner, helping organizations 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 leverag... Know more