Secure Data Engineer (Birmingham, GB)

Your work will involve

Building Data Applications Developing modular and maintainable software components that process, transform and expose data for analytical, operational or AI driven use cases. You will follow strong engineering practices, with testing and observability built in from the start.

Streaming and Real Time Architecture Designing and implementing data ingestion and event driven patterns that support real time or near real time flows, ensuring they remain reliable even under demanding operational conditions.

Workflow Orchestration Defining data workflows programmatically and managing complex dependencies, scheduling and error recovery behaviours within secure and assured environments.

Deployment and Ownership Containerising your own services and deploying them into secure Kubernetes or cloud environments, using CI/CD principles adapted for Defence delivery. You will own your applications in production and contribute to secure patterns for deployment.

Resilience, Observability and Compliance Implementing health monitoring, structured logging, metrics and lineage to meet Defence requirements for auditability, security and operational assurance. You will design systems that can self heal or fail gracefully when needed.

Infrastructure as Code Provisioning the resources your services depend on using Infrastructure as Code and working closely with platform teams to ensure alignment with accredited Defence architectures.

Security Clearance: To be successfully appointed to this role, must be eligible 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, but not limited to, 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.

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.

If you are successfully offered this position, you will go through a series of pre-employment checks, including: identity, nationality (single or dual) or immigration status, employment history going back 3 continuous years, and unspent criminal record check (known as Disclosure and Barring Service)

What we’ll offer you

You will be encouraged to have a positive work-life balance. Our hybrid-first way of working means we embed hybrid working in all that we do and make flexible working arrangements the day-to-day reality for our people. All UK employees are eligible to request flexible working arrangements.

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.

Why we’re different

At Capgemini, we help organisations across the world become more agile, more competitive, and more successful. Smart, tailored, often ground-breaking technical solutions to complex problems are the norm. But so, too, is a culture that’s as collaborative as it is forward thinking. Working closely with each other, and with our clients, we get under the skin of businesses and to the heart of their goals. You will too. Capgemini is proud to represent nearly 130 nationalities and its cultural diversity. Our holistic definition of diversity extends beyond gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, ethnicity, race, age, and religion. Capgemini views diversity as everything that makes us who we are as an organization, including our social background, our experiences in life and work, our communication styles and even our personality. These dimensions contribute to the type of diversity we value the most: diversity of thought.