Unable to run my gradle project after adding zfj-cloud-rest-client-1.2-jar-with-dependencies.jar

Hi, We have a java gradle project that updates status of  automation test cases in Jira via Zephyr APIs. For these calls we had been using basic authentication(userame/password). After Jira cloud migration, basic authentication failed to work due to deprecation (https://developer.atlassian.com/cloud/jira/platform/deprecation-notice-basic-auth-and-cookie-based-auth/) and so we followed this guideline https://support.smartbear.com/zephyr-squad-cloud/docs/api/jwt-token.html to generate JWT tokens for Zephyr calls. When I created a blank new project with the SampleJwtGenerator class it worked fine and I was able to successfully use the generated JWT tokens. But when I tried to include the SampleJwtGenerator class in our existing project (our project is based on Spring Framework 5.3.12) I could not run the project, I get the following exception

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: 'void org.springframework.core.annotation.AnnotationAwareOrderComparator.sort(java.util.List)'
at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication.getSpringFactoriesInstances(SpringApplication.java:458)
at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication.getSpringFactoriesInstances(SpringApplication.java:450)
at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication.getBootstrapRegistryInitializersFromSpringFactories(SpringApplication.java:294)
at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication.<init>(SpringApplication.java:285)
at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication.<init>(SpringApplication.java:266)
at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication.run(SpringApplication.java:1343)
at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication.run(SpringApplication.java:1332)
at com.hyland.jiraconnector.JiraConnectorServiceApplication.main(JiraConnectorServiceApplication.java:25)

Please can you provide any guideline to solve my problem?