It seems the maven plugin (version 3.1) is not using the libembedder corresponding to the used maven version. This makes that when using a maven feature available in the used maven version (wildcard exclusions, in maven 3.3.3), we observe an error.

10:19:59 [WARNING] 'dependencyManagement.dependencies.dependency.exclusions.exclusion.artifactId' for com.xxxxxxxxx:xxxxxxx:jar with value '*' does not match a valid id pattern. @ xxxxxxxxxx:5.0.0-SNAPSHOT, C:\Jenkins\workspace\xxxxx\develop\xxxxx\.repository\com\xxxxxxxx\xxxxxx\enterprise.dependencies\5.0.0-SNAPSHOT\enterprise.dependencies-5.0.0-SNAPSHOT.pom, line 675, column 37 
10:19:59 
10:19:59 at org.apache.maven.project.DefaultProjectBuilder.build(DefaultProjectBuilder.java:364) 
10:19:59 at hudson.maven.MavenEmbedder.buildProjects(MavenEmbedder.java:361) 
10:19:59 at hudson.maven.MavenEmbedder.readProjects(MavenEmbedder.java:331) 
10:19:59 at hudson.maven.MavenModuleSetBuild$PomParser.invoke(MavenModuleSetBuild.java:1328)