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Java Developer

Birmingham (Hybrid)

6 Month Contract

£(Apply online only)/day (Outside IR35)

Java Developer needed with both active SC Clearance and NPPV3 Security Clearance. 6 Month Contract based in Birmingham (Hybrid).

Paying up to £(Apply online only)/day (Outside IR35). Start ASAP in Feb/March 2026.

Hybrid Working - 3 days/week remote (WFH), and 2 days/week working on-site in the Birmingham office. Occasional travel to the Croydon office, typically once every 1-2 months.

A chance to work with a leading global IT transformation business specialising in delivering large-scale Government / Public Sector projects.

Key experience + tasks will include:

Java Developer needed to work on developing solutions for a large-scale Government / Public Sector programme.

Government / Public Sector / (url removed) sector experience strongly preferred.

Strong hands-on Java development expertise including: Java 17+, Spring Boot, Spring Data JPA, Spring Integration, Spring Batch, Microservices, REST, SOAP Web Services, JPA (Hibernate).

Experience of developing Java solutions for large-scale integration projects including: microservices, web services, messaging + distributed systems.

Connecting processes across multiple systems using message brokers like ActiveMQ.

Robust experience of Web Services, SOAP, RESTful), Containerization (Docker), and testing frameworks (Mockito, JUnit, Powermock, DBUnit, JMock, TestContainers).

Supporting live systems + diagnose / resolving incidents.

Continuous Integration methodologies such as: Maven, Jenkins, SonarQube, Git + Stash Repository.

AWS Cloud Services (EC2, SQS, RDS, DynamoDB, S3, Route53, Cloudwatch, KMS).

Any experience of Linux, Atlassian products, open-source DBs, PostgreSQL, or Grafana monitoring would be helpful.

Technical Environment: Quartz, SQL PostgreSQL databases, Aurora, Messaging Services (ActiveMQ), Maven, Jenkins, Junit, AWS Cloud hosting, Bootstrap, Docker, TDD + Agile/Scrum methods.

Advantageous Skills: Angular, Node JS, Jaspersoft, Spring Cloud, Spring Batch, Spring Integration, SQL queries, Postgres/Aurora DB config, Activiti BPMN, Postfix, AWS/Azure Devops, CI/CD tools