diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 2e9d1d2d8f37d..00642390a3831 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -2908,7 +2908,7 @@
               <arg>-deprecation</arg>
               <arg>-feature</arg>
               <arg>-explaintypes</arg>
-              <arg>-target:jvm-1.8</arg>
+              <arg>-target:${java.version}</arg>
               <arg>-Xfatal-warnings</arg>
               <arg>-Ywarn-unused:imports</arg>
               <arg>-P:silencer:globalFilters=.*deprecated.*</arg>
@@ -3475,6 +3475,36 @@
 
   <profiles>
 
+    <profile>
+         <id>java-8</id>
+         <activation>
+             <jdk>1.8</jdk>
+         </activation>
+         <properties>
+             <java.version>1.8</java.version>
+         </properties>
+     </profile>
+
+     <profile>
+         <id>java-11</id>
+         <activation>
+             <jdk>11</jdk>
+         </activation>
+         <properties>
+             <java.version>11</java.version>
+         </properties>
+     </profile>
+
+     <profile>
+         <id>java-17</id>
+         <activation>
+             <jdk>17</jdk>
+         </activation>
+         <properties>
+             <java.version>17</java.version>
+         </properties>
+     </profile>
+
     <!--
       This profile is enabled automatically by the sbt build. It changes the scope for shaded
       dependencies, since we don't shade it in the artifacts generated by the sbt build.
@@ -3619,7 +3649,7 @@
                   <arg>-deprecation</arg>
                   <arg>-feature</arg>
                   <arg>-explaintypes</arg>
-                  <arg>-target:jvm-1.8</arg>
+                  <arg>-target:${java.version}</arg>
                   <arg>-Wconf:cat=deprecation:wv,any:e</arg>
                   <arg>-Wunused:imports</arg>
                   <!--