The posting
At IBM Consulting UK FutureNow, you’ll build a career at the forefront of hybrid cloud and AI, working with leading clients across the public and private sectors.
You’ll collaborate with top industry professionals, gain hands on experience with cutting edge technologies, and deliver solutions that create real business impact. From day one, you’ll work on meaningful, high profile programmes that stretch your skills and accelerate your growth.
We invest heavily in you—supporting continuous learning, in demand skills development, and long term career progression. You’ll thrive in a flexible, inclusive environment that values curiosity, encourages reinvention, and recognises what makes you unique.
We offer:
- Tools and policies to support your work-life balance from flexible working approaches, sabbatical programs, paid paternity leave, maternity leave and an innovative maternity returners scheme
- More traditional benefits, such as 25 days holiday (in addition to public holidays), private medical, dental & optical cover, online shopping discounts, an Employee Assistance Program, life assurance and a group pension plan through salary sacrifice.
At IBM Consulting FutureNow, we're helping clients design, modernise and operate some of the UK's most important and complex technology services.
We're looking for Java Developers and Software Engineers at a range of experience levels to join our National Security business, working across secure, enterprise-scale application and modernisation programmes.
This is a hands-on engineering role for practitioners who enjoy solving complex problems, building high-quality software and working collaboratively with clients, architects, engineers and multidisciplinary delivery teams.
You'll work across modern Java environments, contributing throughout the software development lifecycle from requirements and technical design through to development, automated testing, deployment and production support.
Whether you're an established Senior Java Engineer or earlier in your career and looking to develop within a consulting environment, we're interested in individuals with strong engineering foundations, curiosity and a desire to broaden their technical capability.
Key Responsibilities
As a Java Developer, you will:
- Design, develop, test and maintain Java-based applications and services.
- Build backend services and REST APIs using Java and frameworks such as Spring and Spring Boot.
- Contribute to microservice and distributed application architectures.
- Develop clean, maintainable and appropriately tested code.
- Participate in technical design discussions and contribute to engineering decisions.
- Diagnose and resolve complex software and production issues.
- Develop and maintain automated unit, integration and component tests.
- Work with CI/CD pipelines and modern software deployment practices.
- Collaborate with Architects, DevOps Engineers, Test Engineers, Business Analysts and other Software Engineers throughout the delivery lifecycle.
- Support applications through development, testing and production environments.
- Contribute to code reviews, engineering standards and continuous improvement.
- Engage with client stakeholders to understand requirements and translate them into practical technical solutions.
- Support and mentor less experienced engineers where appropriate.
We're interested in candidates who can demonstrate experience across a number of the following areas:
- Java Engineering
- Java
- Spring
- Spring Boot
- REST APIs
- Microservices
- Object-Oriented Programming
- API development and integration
- Maven or Gradle
- Hibernate / JPA
- SQL and relational databases
- Testing & Quality
- JUnit
- Mockito
- WireMock
- Unit testing
- Integration testing
- Test-driven development
- Automated testing
- Code reviews
- Engineering quality practices
- Modern Software Delivery
Experience or exposure to technologies and practices such as:
- Git
- Jenkins
- GitLab CI/CD
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- OpenShift
- Helm
- CI/CD pipelines
- Cloud-hosted application environments
- Engineering Capability
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Experience diagnosing and resolving software defects and technical issues.
- Understanding of secure software-development practices.
- Ability to explain technical decisions clearly.
- Experience working collaboratively within multidisciplinary delivery teams.
- Comfortable working within Agile or hybrid software-delivery environments.
This role is subject to pre-employment screening in line with the UK Government’s Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS). An additional range of Personal Security Controls referred to as National Security Vetting (NVS) may apply, this could include meeting the eligibility requirements for The Security Check (SC) or Developed Vetting (DV).
- Experience with event-driven architectures and messaging technologies such as Kafka, RabbitMQ or IBM MQ.
- Exposure to AWS/Azure, Docker, Kubernetes/OpenShift and modern CI/CD environments.
- Experience with application modernisation, cloud migration or supporting business-critical applications.
- Strong problem-solving skills with a focus on secure, maintainable and reliable engineering.
- Comfortable working directly with clients, Product Owners and multidisciplinary delivery teams.
- For senior candidates, experience mentoring engineers, leading technical workstreams and influencing design decisions.
- Experience within National Security, Public Sector or other high-assurance environments would be advantageous.
