I found the issue. I have not included api
in the configurations and as a result, the application could not resolve the version. Fixed by updating the build.gradle in my common library like so:
configurations {
springBom
compileOnly.extendsFrom(springBom)
annotationProcessor.extendsFrom(springBom)
implementation.extendsFrom(springBom)
api.extendsFrom(springBom)
}