You're IAR defines additional deps:
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupid>com.axonivy</groupid>
<artifactid>persistence</artifactid>
<version>0.0.1</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
You must add JAR dependencies from maven with your IAR: otherwise they will not be accessible to the engine
https://answers.axonivy.com/questions/2089/add-library-with-pom-xml