Salary: £54,000 - 60,000 per year Requirements: Active SC Clearance NPPV3 Security Clearance Strong hands-on Java development expertise (Java 17, Spring Boot, Spring Data JPA, Spring Integration, Spring Batch, Microservices, REST, SOAP Web Services, JPA - Hibernate) Experience with large-scale integration projects (microservices, web services, messaging, distributed systems) Experience connecting processes across multiple systems using message brokers like ActiveMQ Robust experience in Web Services (SOAP, RESTful), Containerization (Docker), and testing frameworks (Mockito, JUnit, Powermock, DBUnit, JMock, TestContainers) Familiarity with Continuous Integration methodologies (Maven, Jenkins, SonarQube, Git Stash Repository) Experience with AWS Cloud Services (EC2, SQS, RDS, DynamoDB, S3, Route53, Cloudwatch, KMS) Helpful experience with Linux, Atlassian products, open-source DBs, PostgreSQL, or Grafana monitoring Responsibilities: Develop solutions for large-scale Government / Public Sector programmes Support live systems and diagnose/resolving incidents Engage in continuous integration using tools like Maven, Jenkins, and SonarQube Contribute to the architecture and design of microservices and web services Implement testing frameworks to ensure code quality Collaborate with team members on integration projects Participate in occasional travel to the Croydon office Work in a hybrid capacity (3 days remote, 2 days onsite) Technologies: AWS ActiveMQ Atlassian Cloud CloudWatch Docker EC2 Git Grafana Hibernate Support JPA JUnit Java Jenkins Linux Maven PostgreSQL REST SOAP Security Spring Spring Boot Web microservices Angular Azure BPMN Bootstrap CI/CD DevOps NodeJS Postfix SQL TDD More: We are a leading global IT transformation business specializing in delivering large-scale Government and Public Sector projects. We offer a hybrid working environment, allowing for 3 days of remote work and 2 days in our Birmingham office. This is a 6-month contract role, paying up to £(Apply online only)/day, outside IR35. We are looking for a Java Developer to join our team and start ASAP in February/March 2026. last updated 8 week of 2026