Capgemini

AWS API Engineer / Data Architect

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19 days ago
Manchester, United Kingdom +3 moreSenior

Responsibilities

  • Design and build serverless and microservices APIs on AWS using Lambda and API Gateway.
  • Create agent-ready and tool-calling interfaces for AI agents and LLM applications, including Model Context Protocol integrations.
  • Support distributed system and data integration using event-driven patterns, retrieval, and vector data access.
  • Design secure IAM, identity-provider, token-based authentication, and access-control patterns for human and autonomous callers.
  • Implement logging, monitoring, tracing, audit trails, and human oversight for production and AI-driven traffic.
  • Lead modernization, deployment planning, cutover, post-go-live stabilization, and technical-debt remediation.
  • Contribute to PostgreSQL, document-store, and vector-store data architecture with data engineering teams.

Requirements

  • Strong hands-on production experience designing and building APIs and microservices.
  • Hands-on AWS serverless experience with Lambda and API Gateway, plus IAM, VPC, networking, and security fundamentals.
  • Strong understanding of RESTful APIs, integration patterns, and distributed systems.
  • Proficiency in at least one backend language such as Python, with Git, code review, unit testing, CI/CD, and production troubleshooting experience.
  • Experience across CI/CD, release planning, cutover, post-go-live stabilization, and observability using tools such as CloudWatch, ELK, Prometheus, or Grafana.
  • Ability to communicate architecture decisions to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
  • Interest or experience in AI-agent integrations, tool-calling or function-calling APIs, MCP, Amazon Bedrock, Bedrock Agents, Knowledge Bases for Bedrock, or vector search is preferred.
  • GraphQL with Apollo, Apache Kafka, and progress toward AWS certifications are preferred.
  • Must be eligible to obtain UK Security Check (SC) clearance, including continuous UK residence for the last five years and satisfaction of other clearance criteria.

Benefits

  • Hybrid working across company offices, client sites, and home; the role is not fully remote.
  • Flexible working arrangements are available to UK employees.
  • Training and development opportunities include thinktanks, hackathons, up to 250,000 courses, and external certifications.
  • Pre-employment checks include identity, nationality or immigration status, three years of employment history, and an unspent criminal record check.

Tech Stack

Apache KafkaAWSAzureDatabricksGitGoogle Cloud PlatformGrafanaGraphQLPostgreSQLPrometheusPythonSnowflake

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About Capgemini

10,000+ employees

Capgemini is a global IT services and consulting firm that delivers strategy, cloud, AI, software engineering, and managed services to large enterprises and public-sector clients. Founded in 1967 and headquartered in Paris, it is publicly traded on Euronext Paris and operates in 50+ countries. The group expanded its engineering capabilities by acquiring Altran in 2020, now operating as Capgemini Engineering.

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