diff --git a/google-cloud-bigquery/pom.xml b/google-cloud-bigquery/pom.xml
index 0a6f2327e..2e3df3aa6 100644
--- a/google-cloud-bigquery/pom.xml
+++ b/google-cloud-bigquery/pom.xml
@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.google.auto.value</groupId>
       <artifactId>auto-value-annotations</artifactId>
+      <scope>provided</scope>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.google.http-client</groupId>
@@ -134,21 +135,4 @@
       </plugin>
     </plugins>
   </build>
-
-  <profiles>
-    <profile>
-      <id>java9</id>
-      <activation>
-        <jdk>[9,)</jdk>
-      </activation>
-      <dependencies>
-        <dependency>
-          <groupId>javax.annotation</groupId>
-          <artifactId>javax.annotation-api</artifactId>
-          <!-- Adding version here because flatten cannot interpret this -->
-          <version>${javax.annotations.version}</version>
-        </dependency>
-      </dependencies>
-    </profile>
-  </profiles>
 </project>
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 532dd4825..0edf79bd2 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -63,7 +63,6 @@
     <project.reporting.outputEncoding>UTF-8</project.reporting.outputEncoding>
     <github.global.server>github</github.global.server>
     <site.installationModule>google-cloud-bigquery-parent</site.installationModule>
-    <javax.annotations.version>1.3.2</javax.annotations.version>
     <google-api-services-bigquery.version>v2-rev20200429-1.30.9
     </google-api-services-bigquery.version>
   </properties>
@@ -217,5 +216,4 @@
       </modules>
     </profile>
   </profiles>
-
 </project>