Java Developer

Gloucester, Gloucestershire
Nicholas Howard

Nicholas Howard is delighted to be recruiting for a DV Cleared Java Developer for a leading defence sector client. This is a fantastic opportunity to join one of the world’s leading organisations in this space, and work on a variety of defence, cyber and intelligence programmes.The opportunity will provide you with meaningful work and education opportunities that will allow you to develop your skills and enhance your career, while also enjoying a strong work life balance. To ensure this, our client offers a flexible work schedule, hybrid work and a comprehensive benefits package to enable you to live a healthy fulfilling life in and outside of work. The business offers a 4 day working week, excellent salaries and highly competitive benefits packages.

You will be working as part of a core team developing new capability and transforming existing capability to a strategic platform all within an agile environment.

Key skills/attributes that we are looking for:

• Proficient in Java 17.
• Experience of developing on Linux.
• Thorough understanding of mocking and unit testing frameworks such as JUnit 5.x (Jupiter).
• Experienced with Git version control.
• Knowledge of Agile Development using SCRUM.
• An active Enhanced DV clearance, or the ability and willingness to undergo the clearance process

Further desirable skills include:

• Experience in Oracle/ Relational Databases and/or Mongo
• Experience in GitLab CI/CD Pipelines.
• Knowledge of Apache NiFi
• Experience in Javascript/TypeScript & React
• Experience of Elasticsearch and Kibana
• Knowledge of Hibernate
• Experience of JSF (Primefaces)
• Experience of Atlassian Suite – Bitbucket, Jira, Confluence

Day-to-day responsibilities include:

• Contribute to the design, architecture, and development software for mission critical applications.
• Ability to apply knowledge of software engineering best practice
• Be responsible for ensuring software compliance standards are met by the application of appropriate processes, procedures and tools throughout the software development life-cycle.
• Bring your imaginative, creative thinking and problem solving skills to the team and contribute your ideas to ensure innovation is delivered to customers.
• Your curiosity will see you research new technologies for use and adaptation in programmes and R&D projects.
• Take requirements and transform them into appropriate software design and code.
• Identify and employ suitable software modelling and development tools and techniques.
• To investigate issues arising in the field or during testing and to provide solutions.
• Write documentation for software such as User Guides, Design Documents, Configuration Management plans and Coding Standards.
• Collaborate with your colleagues and manage your time effectively to support requirements capture and testing of software, and to ensure an integrated approach to meet cost and schedule targets.
• Establish and maintain effective working relationships with clients across all levels of the organisation both internally and with the customer.
• Support customer demonstrations of current change work as it is developed.
• Any additional Programme related tasks assigned that are within area of expertise, competence and skill set.

Candidates must be eligible to go through the vetting process required for DV level security clearance – please check and ensure your eligibility prior to applying.