Lead Java Developer (ACTIVE SC) Permanent Birmingham/ Reading (Hybrid) £70,000- £75,000 + Benefits We are looking for a Lead Java Developer with AWS experience and active SC clearance for a permanent position based in Birmingham/ Reading. This position involves travel two days per week and is available for an immediate start, preferably in early May 2025. A chance to work with a Leading Digital Transformation Business Delivering Large-scale, Long-term IT Projects for the Public Sector. Key skills and experience: Experienced with large-scale integration projects involving microservices, messaging systems (ActiveMQ), and distributed architectures Web services (both SOAP and RESTful) and containerisation using Docker Automated testing with frameworks such as JUnit, Mockito, Powermock, JMock, DBUnit, and TestContainers Continuous Integration tools and practices, including Maven, Git, Jenkins, SonarQube, and Stash Development in Linux environments and use of Atlassian tools (e.g., Jira, Confluence) Working with open-source databases like PostgreSQL and cloud platforms, particularly AWS (EC2, SQS, RDS, DynamoDB, S3, Route53, KMS, CloudWatch) Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban) and modern development practices like TDD and BDD Essential: Java 17+, Spring Boot, Spring Data JPA, Spring Integration, Spring Batch, Quartz, Spring extension projects (Data, Cloud, Batch, Security), JPA (Hibernate), AWS Cloud hosting and its components, Postgres/Aurora, Angular, and Bootstrap ..... full job details .....