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Senior Scala Developer - Public Sector

IBM

Software Engineering

Texas City, TX, USA · California, USA

Posted on Sep 5, 2025

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Introduction

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

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.

Your role and responsibilities

We are seeking a seasoned Senior Scala Developer to drive our cloud development initiatives in the public sector. As a Senior Developer, you will be responsible for leading the entire lifecycle of design, development, and maintenance of advanced cloud-based applications. You will also play a crucial role in mentoring and growing junior and mid-level developers.

Responsibilities

System Architecture & Design: Utilize your expertise to architect, develop, and maintain the integrity, scalability, and security of our cloud applications using state-of-the-art full-stack technologies.
Team Mentorship & Growth: Act as a mentor and leader for junior and mid-level developers, fostering a culture of innovation, quality, and efficiency.
Technical Problem-Solving: Use your extensive full-stack cloud development knowledge to identify and resolve complex technical issues.
Process Optimization: Advocate for continuous improvement of our development processes, ensuring they align with industry standards and best practices.
Strategic Technical Vision: Direct the technical direction of our cloud applications and contribute to significant strategic decisions within the public sector.
Project Orchestration: Lead smaller projects from inception through to deployment, showcasing exceptional technical competence and project management skills.
Developer Nurturing: Guide and develop the careers of junior and mid-level developers, enabling them to maximize their potential.

As an equal opportunities’ employer, we welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds. However, for you to be eligible for this role, you must have the valid right to work in the UK. Unfortunately, we do not offer visa sponsorship and have no future plans to do so. You must be a resident in the UK and have been living continuously in the UK for the last 5 years. You must be able to hold or gain a UK government security clearance

Required education

None

Preferred education

Bachelor's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

Experience with popular Scala frameworks like Play Framework, Akka, or Slick.
Proficiency in integrating Scala with other technologies, such as JavaScript (CoffeeScript, TypeScript), HTML5, and CSS3.
Knowledge of type-safe build tools like sbt (Scala Build Tool) and experience with dependency management.
Familiarity with testing frameworks like ScalaTest, Specs2, or JUnit for unit testing, and tools like Gatling for load testing.
Experience with functional reactive programming (FRP) libraries like Reactive Extensions (RxScala) or Monix.
Understanding of Scala's advanced features, such as implicits, type classes, and higher-kinded types.
Experience with domain-specific languages (DSLs) and understanding of how to effectively use them in Scala.
Familiarity with microservices architectures and experience with service mesh technologies like Apache Kafka or RabbitMQ.
Knowledge of Scala's interoperability with Java, including understanding of Java collections, concurrency utilities, and build tools like Maven or Gradle.
Experience with Scala's rich ecosystem, including libraries for machine learning (Smile, Breeze), data processing (Apache Spark), and distributed computing (Akka Cluster).
Experience with GDS guidelines and familiarity with the GOV.UK Design System.
Proficiency in UCD principles, user research, wireframing, prototyping, and usability testing.
Extensive experience working within Agile methodologies, preferably Scrum or Kanban.

Preferred technical and professional experience

Oracle Certified Professional, Scala (OCP-SCP)
AWS Certified Developer - Scala
Microsoft Certified: Azure DevOps Engineer Expert:
Certified ScrumMaster (CSM)
Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)
Scala Exercises' Advanced Scala Certificate

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

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.

YOUR LIFE @ IBM

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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ABOUT IBM

IBM’s greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.

Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we’re also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 500 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business.

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.

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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.

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