Java Developer
Location: Newcastle upon Tyne
Hybrid Working
Please note - This role will require you to work from our Newcastle, Cobalt Business Park office 3 days per week.
Due to the nature of client work you will be undertaking, you will need to be willing to go through a Security Clearance process as part of this role, which requires 5+ years of continuous UK residence as well as no gaps of 6 months or more spent outside the UK within those 5 years. This includes a single consecutive 6-month period or multiple trips that add up to 6+ months.
Note: The above information relates to a specific client requirement.
In our team you will learn
- How to provide solutions to real world problems across a variety of industries.
- How to help transform leading organisations and communities around the world. The sheer scale of our capabilities and client engagements and the way we collaborate, operate and deliver value provides an unparalleled opportunity to grow and advance.
- How best to develop your skills and hone your talents within an innovative technology environment.
Skills and experience are essential for this role
- Experience within Java Development Kit (JDK 11+) and Spring Boot to build modular, maintainable services aligned to enterprise standards.
- Demonstrable work experience with enterprise middleware platforms including WebLogic Server (Enterprise Edition) and CAS SDK for secured, high-performance integrations.
- Collaborate with cloud and infrastructure teams to deploy solutions into secure, scalable public cloud environments (e.g., AWS), using containers.
- Advocate for and employ good development practices on the team such as consistent branching strategy, coding standards, Test Driven Development, Continuous Integration and Continuous Testing.
- Support the technical leads in crafting the separation of functional into microservices and the end-to-end integration and flow between technical components. Support the test automation engineers in testing the stories and features delivered both from a functional and non-functional perspective.
- Follow the Scrum Methodology participating actively in sprint backlog refinement, sprint planning, stand-ups, sprint review and sprint retrospective.
- Have significant Java programming experience, ideally utilizing core Java and Spring Boot to develop microservices.
Set yourself apart
- Capable of working in an agile development environment, both collaboratively and individually.
- Exposure to CI/CD pipelines and tools such as GitLab, Jenkins and SonarQube.
- Demonstrated experience building secure, scalable services in a public cloud environment.
- Have experience applying TDD/BDD approaches.
- Enjoy working in a dynamic, fast paced environment, collaborating with others, contributing to craft, and estimating discussions and utilizing strong collaborator leadership skills.
What’s in it for you
At Accenture in addition to a competitive basic salary, you will also have an extensive benefits package which includes 25 days’ vacation per year, private medical insurance and 3 extra days leave per year for charitable work of your choice!
Flexibility and mobility are required to deliver this role as there will be requirements to spend time onsite with our clients and partners to enable delivery of the first‑class services, we are known for.
Accenture reserves the right to close the role prior to this date should a suitable applicant be found.