Java Developer

Hursley, England, United Kingdom

6/4/2025

Introduction

In this role, you’ll work in one of our IBM Consulting Client Innovation Centres (Delivery Centres), where we deliver deep technical and industry expertise to a wide range of public and private sector clients around the world. Our delivery centres offer our clients locally based skills and technical expertise to drive innovation and adoption of new technology.

A career in IBM Consulting is rooted by long-term relationships and close collaboration with clients across the globe. You’ll work with visionaries across multiple industries to improve the hybrid cloud and AI journey for the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Your ability to accelerate impact and make meaningful change for your clients is enabled by our strategic partner ecosystem and our robust technology platforms across the IBM portfolio, including Software and Red Hat.

Curiosity and a constant quest for knowledge serve as the foundation to success in IBM Consulting. In your role, you’ll be encouraged to challenge the norm, investigate ideas outside of your role, and come up with creative solutions resulting in ground-breaking impact for a wide network of clients. Our culture of evolution and empathy centres on long-term career growth and development opportunities in an environment that embraces your unique skills and experience.

We Offer

• Regular and frequent promotion and progression opportunities to ensure you can drive and develop your career with us
• Feedback and checkpoints throughout the year; no one off annual reviews here
• A multitude of training opportunities from classroom to e-learning, mentoring and coaching programs as well as the chance to gain industry recognized certifications
• Diversity & Inclusion as an essential and authentic component of our culture through our policies and process as well as our Employee Champion teams and support networks
• A culture where your ideas for growth and innovation are always welcome
• Internal recognition programs for peer-to-peer appreciation as well as from manager to employees
• Tools and policies to support your work-life balance from flexible working approaches, sabbatical programs, 1 month paid paternity leave, 16 weeks fully paid maternity leave and an innovative maternity returners scheme
• More traditional benefits, such as 25 days holiday, a gym discount scheme, online shopping discounts, an Employee Assistance Program, a group personal pension plan of an additional 5% of your base salary paid by us monthly to save for your future.
  
  

Your Role And Responsibilities

As an Application Developer with expertise in Java and Web Technologies you are responsible for designing, developing, and supporting applications based on the Java/JEE technology stack. You will utilize Java frameworks and languages such as Ruby, or Groovy for web development.

You Will

• Complete development tasks on project specific backlogs. 
• Be accountable for writing code that meets pre-defined coding standards and guidelines.
• Write, adapt, maintain and support code; as well as look to continually improve the service with new tools and techniques. 
• Development and implementation of applications
• Collaboration with cross-functional teams to design, develop and test applications that meet business requirements.
• Follow best practices in code quality testing  and deployment throughout the development lifecycle.
• Contribute to decision-making and improvement ideas.
• Communicate effectively with cross functional team translating technical concepts into clear and understandable language.
• Actively participate in customer craft communities sharing IBM best practices and thought leadership.
  
  

Preferred Education

Bachelor's Degree

Required Technical And Professional Expertise

Key areas of expertise required include

• Aspect-oriented programming,
• Functional programming,
• Test-driven development,
• Data access frameworks,
• Transaction management frameworks,
• Batch processing.