Java Developer (SC + NPPV3 Cleared)

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.

Job Details

Company
Syntax Consultancy Ltd
Location
Birmingham, West Midlands (County), United Kingdom
Hybrid / Remote Options
Employment Type
Contract
Salary
£450 - £500/day 450-500/day (Outside IR35)
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