Java Developer - Newcastle

Location: Newcastle

Please Note: Any offer of employment is subject to satisfactory BPSS and SC security clearance which requires 5 years continuous UK address history (typically including no periods of 30 consecutive days or more spent outside of the UK) at the point of application. Other Security Clearance requirements may be applicable, which will be discussed with the recruitment team post application.

Hybrid Working: This role will require you to work from our Newcastle, Cobalt Business Park office 3 days per week.

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.

As a Java Developer, you will:

• 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 designing 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.
• Support the team in delivering features by expanding capabilities into other areas of development and testing.

The following skills and experience are essential for this role:

• Strong experience in Java 8 to 17.
• Proven background in Spring/ Spring Boot/ Spring MVC.
• Current hands-on experience of Java Development.
• Ability to mentor and develop junior developers.
• Excellent leadership, communication (written and oral) and interpersonal 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, annual performance bonus scheme (Career Level dependent), 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 may be requirements to spend time onsite with our partners to enable delivery of the outstanding services we are known for.

Accenture is an equal opportunities employer and encourages applications from all sections of society and does not discriminate on grounds of race, religion, or belief, ethnic or national origin, disability, age, citizenship, marital, domestic, or civil partnership status, sexual orientation, or gender identity, or any other basis as protected by applicable law.