Apprentice Software Engineer
Location
Any UK Office Hub (Bristol / London / Manchester / Swansea) Department
Delivery & Practices > Cloud & Engineering Practice Employment Type
Apprentice Workplace Type
Hybrid Compensation
£27,038 / year Job Description
Hybrid working
Made Tech office 1 - 2 days per week (depending on business needs).
Made Tech office 1 - 2 days per week (depending on business needs).
Apprentices will also be required to attend in person learning days as part of their apprenticeship programme.
Are you looking to kick-start a career in coding?
Get ready to sharpen your programming skills and learn to ship high-quality code with Made Tech!
Our mission
At Made Tech we want to positively impact the future of the country with digital technology. We help public sector organisations deliver quality software to help citizens get more from public services. We work alongside brilliant public servants to modernise technology and accelerate digital delivery.
Your Journey
As an apprentice software engineer, over 18 months, you’ll work towards an accredited level 4 DevOps apprenticeship programme. During this time, you will learn and develop your technical software and personal centred skills and gain hands-on experience working on real client projects.
You will have the opportunity to work across a variety of technologies and will need to be comfortable doing so and be adaptable to learning new technologies and skills everyday. So you will need to demonstrate adaptability and readiness to learn new technologies and skills everyday.
Your role at Made Tech
In phase 1, you will be focused very much on learning the software engineering fundamentals that will enable you to progress and contribute onto live delivery projects.
In phase 2, you will work on real client project teams. This will give you both the opportunity to reinforce and develop what you have learned in phase one. You will also be attending structured learning days to further enhance your skills as a devops engineer to further enhance your skills as a devops engineer.
As an apprentice software engineer, you will be designing, building, testing, maintaining and evaluating software. You will play a key role in supporting your team to apply what you have learnt, to solve problems and improve the user experience.
What we are looking for
- An interest in programming and ability to create some basic code
- A Maths and English GCSE at a minimum grade C/4 or equivalent functional skills (level 2)
- Commitment to undertake an 18 month learning programme
- Great communication skills
- A true team player
- A willingness to learn
- Great organisation skills
- Attention to detail
- An awareness of working within a consultancy environment
Essential requirements
The following criteria have been marked as essential, as part of the funding requirements:
The following criteria have been marked as essential, as part of the funding requirements:
- All applicants must be 18 years & over at the time of starting the program. This is part of the funding requirements.
- All applicants must not be currently employed under a government-based scheme or taking part in any other apprenticeship or government funded program.
- All applicants must hold a Maths and English GCSE at a minimum grade C/4 or equivalent functional skills level 2.
Next steps:
- Selected applicants will be invited to a short screening, upon submitting your application.
- If your screening is successful, we will invite you to complete a short coding assessment.
- Applicants who pass the coding assessment, will then complete a short Maths & English assessment.
- Finally, applicants who are successful following the Maths & English assessment will be invited to an in-person assessment centre, held on Thursday 20th March. During the day, you will learn how we work, complete a group exercise, complete a technical assessment & interview.
Key Responsibilities
If you have any of the following skills, we would love to hear more. These are desirable so no worries if you are not familiar with any of these:
- Knowledge of the public sector.
- Working with multidisciplinary teams.
- Knowledge of cloud platforms such as AWS and Azure.
- Knowledge of different programming languages.
- Knowledge of Agile methodologies.
- Presentation skills.
Skills, Knowledge and Expertise
We’re committed to building a happy, inclusive and diverse workforce. You can get a sense of what it’s like working here from our blog, where we talk about mental health, communities of practice, neurodiversity as well as our client work and best practice.
Like many organisations, we use Slack to chat to each other. The Slack groups that have formed give an idea of the diversity within Made Tech. If you’d like to speak to someone from one of these groups about their experience as an employee, let your recruitment agent or Made Tech Talent Partner know.
The groups are:
- antiracist-activists
- disability
- lgbtqiaplus-allies-and-activists
- neurodiversity
- parents-carers
- women-in-tech
