Java Developer (SC + NPPV3 Cleared)
Posted 1 day ago by Syntax Consultancy Ltd
£500 Per day
Outside
Hybrid
Birmingham
Summary: Java Developer position available in Birmingham for a 6-month contract requiring active SC and NPPV3 Security Clearance. The role involves developing solutions for large-scale Government/Public Sector projects, with a hybrid working arrangement. Candidates should possess strong Java development skills and experience with various technologies and methodologies relevant to the role.
Key Responsibilities:
- Develop solutions for a large-scale Government/Public Sector programme.
- Utilize strong hands-on Java development expertise including Java 17+, Spring Boot, and Microservices.
- Work on large-scale integration projects involving web services and messaging systems.
- Support live systems and diagnose/resolving incidents.
- Implement Continuous Integration methodologies and work with AWS Cloud Services.
Key Skills:
- Active SC Clearance and NPPV3 Security Clearance.
- Strong Java development skills (Java 17+, Spring Boot, Spring Data JPA).
- Experience with microservices, REST, SOAP Web Services, and containerization (Docker).
- Familiarity with Continuous Integration tools (Maven, Jenkins, Git).
- Knowledge of AWS Cloud Services and experience with PostgreSQL.
Salary (Rate): £500/day
City: Birmingham
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: outside IR35
Seniority Level: Mid-Level
Industry: IT
Java Developer needed with both active SC Clearance and NPPV3 Security Clearance. 6 Month Contract based in Birmingham (Hybrid).
Paying up to £450-500/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.