Java Programmer No Experience Jobs in Plainville, MA

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.

• 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.

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

We are seeking a Senior Java Developer to work at IBM, supporting our Public Sector and Defence clients by designing and building high‑quality applications using Java/JEE and modern web technologies. In this role, you will develop application features, integrate systems, and apply best‑practice engineering techniques such as dependency injection, TDD, and CI/CD. If you enjoy creating secure, dependable solutions and collaborating with technical teams, we’d love to hear from you.

• Design, develop, and maintain applications using Java/JEE and related frameworks.
• Build web components using modern Java frameworks and languages.
• Apply enterprise development practices such as dependency injection, inversion of control, aspect‑oriented programming, functional programming, and test‑driven development.
• Develop secure, efficient data access using appropriate data access frameworks and transaction management.
• Support integration with wider enterprise and legacy systems common within Public Sector and Defence environments.
• Participate in DevOps‑aligned practices including CI/CD, automated testing, and version control.
• Troubleshoot and resolve application issues to maintain reliability and service quality.
• Work collaboratively with analysts, testers, architects, and fellow developers to ensure successful delivery.
• Depending on experience, provide technical coordination, mentoring, or ownership of specific technical areas.

None

Bachelor's Degree

• Experience developing applications using Java and JEE technologies
• Knowledge of Java frameworks such as Spring
• Understanding of web technologies, including JSP and Servlets
• Familiarity with dependency injection, inversion of control, and aspect‑oriented programming
• Awareness of functional programming ideas as applied in Java
• Experience working with test‑driven development
• Ability to use data access tools such as JPA, Hibernate, or similar frameworks
• Understanding of transaction management approaches
• Basic knowledge of batch processing principles
• Experience creating and integrating APIs
• Exposure to DevOps practices, including CI/CD pipelines, automation, and Git‑based workflows
• Strong skills in identifying, analysing, and resolving issues
• Good communication and teamwork abilities
• Capability to deliver work independently, coordinate with others, or take ownership of specific development areas depending on experience

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 enhanced Security Check (sSC) or enhanced Developed Vetting (eDV).

• Oracle Certified Associate, Java Programmer (OCA)
• Oracle Certified Professional, Java Programmer (OCP)
• Spring Professional Certification
• Docker or Kubernetes Certification

IBM Consulting is IBM’s consulting and global professional services business, with market leading capabilities in business and technology transformation. With deep expertise in many industries, we offer strategy, experience, technology, and operations services to many of the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Our people are focused on accelerating our clients’ businesses through the power of collaboration. We believe in the power of technology responsibly used to help people, partners and the planet.

In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.

Being an IBMer means you’ll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you’ll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on‑going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can‑do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.

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At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it’s time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.

IBM is proud to be an equal‑opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, or other characteristics protected by the applicable law. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

IBM wants you to bring your whole self to work and for you this might mean the ability to work flexibly. If you are interested in a flexible working pattern, please talk to our recruitment team to find out if this is possible in the current working environment.

Senior Java Developer - eSC or eDV Clearance Required

Job ID

110298

City / Township / Village

State / Province

Hampshire, Gloucestershire, London, City of, Manchester, Leicester

Country

United Kingdom

Work arrangement

Hybrid

Area of work

Software Engineering

Employment type

Regular

Position type

Professional

Up to 80% or 4 days a week (home on weekends - based on project requirements)

Company

Shift

General (daytime)

Is this role a commissionable/sales incentive based position?