Senior Lead Developer (Openshift)

Capgemini; Glasgow; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Capgemini is seeking a Senior Lead Developer for its Financial Services unit in the UK. You will drive the end-to-end delivery of secure, scalable integration services, lead engineering teams, and oversee the incorporation of AI-enabled practices into architectures.

The role blends office, client site, and home-based work, reflecting a hybrid model. You will mentor engineers and ensure high standards of delivery in a regulated environment.

Qualifications

• Extensive backend engineering experience across enterprise apps.
• Proven ability to design, deploy and support microservices in containerised environments.
• Experience leading development teams and performing code reviews.
• Strong knowledge of secure, scalable data integration and patterns.
• Experience in regulated financial services environments is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end delivery of integration services with security and resiliency.
• Provide hands-on technical leadership and mentoring to engineers.
• Oversee AI-assisted engineering integration into solution architectures.
• Drive non-functional requirements like security, reliability and performance.
• Collaborate with architects and stakeholders to translate requirements into solutions.
• Establish governance, peer reviews and best-practice delivery.
• Enhance observability, monitoring and operational excellence across services.
• Coordinate delivery across multiple critical systems.

Skills

Backend software engineering

Microservices architecture

OpenShift

Kubernetes

Team leadership

Code reviews

Security & compliance

Observability & monitoring

AI-enabled practices

Stakeholder management

Tools

OpenShift

Kubernetes

Salesforce

Avaloq

LexiFi

BlackRock Aladdin

Charles River

Job description

As part of the Financial Services Business Unit within C&CA, the Senior Lead Developer will play a pivotal role in shaping and delivering a critical integration capability that connects key enterprise platforms with a modern front-office ecosystem. Guided by our vision to Consult with Purpose. Continuously Evolve. Architect Tomorrow., you will combine hands‑on technical leadership with strategic delivery oversight, ensuring high-quality, secure, and scalable solutions. You will lead and mentor a team of engineers, foster AI‑enabled ways of working, and help build a future‑ready workforce while delivering outcomes that meet the demanding standards of a regulated financial services environment.

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 end‑to‑end delivery of integration services, ensuring solutions are secure, scalable, resilient, and aligned to business objectives.
• Provide technical leadership and hands‑on guidance to engineering teams, driving quality, consistency, and delivery excellence.
• Oversee the integration of AI‑assisted engineering outputs into broader solution architectures, ensuring alignment with engineering standards and business requirements.
• Champion robust non‑functional requirements, including security, auditability, reliability, performance, and operational readiness.
• Collaborate with architects, business stakeholders, and delivery teams to translate complex requirements into effective solutions.
• Mentor and coach engineers, promoting continuous learning, knowledge sharing, and the development of a future‑ready workforce.
• Establish and maintain high standards through peer reviews, engineering governance, and best‑practice delivery approaches.
• Drive observability, supportability, and operational excellence to ensure services can be effectively monitored and managed.
• Coordinate the delivery of integration services, interfaces, and processing capabilities across multiple business‑critical systems.
• Foster a culture of continuous improvement, innovation, and responsible adoption of AI‑enabled practices.

Must‑Have Skills

• Extensive hands‑on experience in backend software engineering and enterprise application development.
• Proven experience designing, delivering, deploying, and supporting scalable microservices‑based solutions within containerised environments, including OpenShift and Kubernetes.
• Strong experience leading development teams or pods, mentoring engineers, and driving technical excellence.
• Demonstrated ability to conduct rigorous code reviews and maintain high engineering quality standards.
• Strong understanding of secure, high‑throughput data integration, messaging architectures, and enterprise integration patterns.
• Experience building and operating highly observable, supportable, and auditable enterprise‑grade solutions.
• Practical experience with enterprise monitoring, logging, auditing, and observability approaches.
• Strong understanding of non‑functional requirements, including security, resilience, scalability, performance, and compliance.
• Experience working within complex, regulated environments, ideally within financial services.
• Knowledge of financial instruments, particularly structured products and derivatives.
• Experience integrating with enterprise platforms such as Avaloq, Salesforce, LexiFi, BlackRock Aladdin, or Charles River.
• Awareness of AI‑enabled software engineering practices and the ability to apply them responsibly to improve delivery outcomes.
• Relevant expertise in modern application delivery, containerisation, integration, and cloud‑based engineering practices.
• Excellent stakeholder management, communication, collaboration, and problem‑solving skills.

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 Manage Mentor, 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.