Introduction At IBM CIC, we deliver deep technical and industry expertise to a wide range of public and private sector clients in the UK. A career in IBM CIC means you'll have the opportunity to work with visionaries across multiple industries to improve the hybrid cloud and AI journey for the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Your ability to accelerate impact and make meaningful change for your clients is enabled by our strategic partner ecosystem and our robust technology platforms across the IBM portfolio. Curiosity and a constant quest for knowledge serve as the foundation to success in IBM CIC. In your role, you'll be encouraged to challenge the norm, investigate ideas outside of your role, and come up with creative solutions which impact a wide network of clients, whom may be at their site or one of our CIC or IBM locations. Our culture of evolution centres on long-term career growth and development opportunities in an environment that embraces your unique skills and experience. We offer: - A multitude of training opportunities from classroom to e-learning, mentoring and coaching programs as well as the chance to gain industry recognized certifications - Regular and frequent promotion and progression opportunities to ensure you can drive and develop your career with us - Feedback and checkpoints throughout the year - Diversity & Inclusion as an essential and authentic component of our culture through our policies and process as well as our Employee Champion teams and support networks - A culture where your ideas for growth and innovation are always welcome - Internal recognition programs for peer-to-peer appreciation as well as from manager to employees - Tools and policies to support your work-life balance from flexible working approaches, sabbatical programs, paid paternity leave, maternity leave and an innovative maternity returners scheme - More traditional benefits, such as 25 days holiday (in addition to public holidays), online shopping discounts, an Employee Assistance Program, a group personal pension plan of an additional 5% of your base salary paid by us monthly to save for your future. Your role and responsibilities As a Big Data Engineer you'll participate in many aspects of the software development lifecycle, such as design, code implementation, testing, and support. You will create software that enables your clients' hybrid-cloud and AI journeys. - You'll have the opportunity to work with the latest technologies, ensuring the applications delivered are high performing, highly available, responsive, and maintainable. Your primary responsibilities include: - Analyze, validate and propose improvements to existing failures, with the support of the architect and technical leader. - Involvement in every step of the process, from design, development, testing release changes and troubleshoot where necessary, providing a great customer service. - Drive key discussions with your stakeholders and analyze the current landscape for opportunities to operate and code creative solutions. Required technical and professional expertise - Experienced Java developer with experience of designing and building new applications. - Excellent grasp of object oriented design and the experience to know when to apply common design patterns. - Knowledge of and ability to apply SOLID principles. - Experience of test driven development and related techniques such as mocking and dependency injection. - Developing in a secure environment. - Maven Git DevOps tooling experience - Performance optimisation of Java application - AWS (lambda S3 DynamoDB etc) - Cloudformation - javascript As an equal opportunities' employer, we welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds. However, for you to be eligible for this role, you must have the valid right to work in the UK. Unfortunately, we do not offer visa sponsorship and have no future plans to do so. You must be a resident in the UK and have been living continuously in the UK for the last 10 years. You must be able to hold or gain a UK government security clearance. IBM is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, caste, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, veteran status, or other characteristics. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.