IT Apprentice - Application and Data Engineer

Leek Building Society

Staffordshire, ST13 5DL

Closes in 23 days (Thursday 31 October)

Posted on 1 October 2024

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Summary

This role of IT Apprentice - Application and Data Engineer is a great chance to get hands-on business IT experience. You'll start by handling and looking into incidents and requests. Plus, you'll learn how to develop and keep our crucial business applications running smoothly, which is key to our success as a Society.

Annual wage
£18,500 a year

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Training course
Software developer (level 4)
Hours
Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm.

35 hours a week

Possible start date

Wednesday 1 January

Duration

1 Year 6 Months

Positions available

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Work

As an apprentice, you’ll work at a company and get hands-on experience. You’ll gain new skills and work alongside experienced staff.

What you’ll do at work

  • ​Taking the lead on sorting out and fixing issues right away, and figuring out how to stop them from happening again
  • Looking at requests for changes to applications and making the necessary technical adjustments to meet those needs
  • Learning how to write SQL queries to quickly get the data needed for special requests
  • Helping coordinate between internal teams and external service providers to manage application maintenance and rollouts
  • Supporting the testing of application features, including how they work with other systems (APIs)
  • Keeping up-to-date with current systems and improving the documentation, including creating user-friendly self-help guides
  • Picking up new technologies and spotting ways to improve applications
  • Assisting the IT Service Desk in boosting the rate of first-time fixes and enhancing issue sorting processes

Where you’ll work

50 St Edward Street

Leek

Staffordshire

ST13 5DL

Training

An apprenticeship includes regular training with a college or other training organisation. At least 20% of your working hours will be spent training or studying.

College or training organisation

BPP PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION LIMITED

Your training course

Software developer (level 4)

Equal to higher national certificate (HNC)

Course contents
  • create logical and maintainable code
  • develop effective user interfaces
  • link code to data sets
  • test code and analyse results to correct errors found using unit testing
  • conduct a range of test types, such as Integration, System, User Acceptance, Non-Functional, Performance and Security testing.
  • identify and create test scenarios
  • apply structured techniques to problem solving, debug code and understand the structure of programmes in order to identify and resolve issues
  • create simple software designs to effectively communicate understanding of the program
  • create analysis artefacts, such as use cases and/or user stories
  • build, manage and deploy code into the relevant environment
  • apply an appropriate software development approach according to the relevant paradigm (for example object oriented, event driven or procedural)
  • follow software designs and functional or technical specifications
  • follow testing frameworks and methodologies
  • follow company, team or client approaches to continuous integration, version and source control
  • communicate software solutions and ideas to technical and non-technical stakeholders
  • apply algorithms, logic and data structures
  • interpret and implement a given design whist remaining compliant with security and maintainability requirements

    • Your training plan

    This training plan has not been finalised. Check with this employer if you’ll need to travel to a college or training location for this apprenticeship.

    Requirements

    Let the company know about other relevant qualifications and industry experience you have. They can adjust the apprenticeship to reflect what you already know.

    Skills

    • Communication skills
    • IT skills
    • Attention to detail
    • Organisation skills
    • Problem solving skills
    • Number skills
    • Logical
    • Team working

    About this company

    Leek Building Society is an award winning, highly admired, local mutual building society that is owned and trusted by its members. We were ranked in the top 10 of UK employers in the Inspiring Workplaces Awards 2024, and we’re on a mission to become even stronger. We’re a great place to work, with an exceptional culture – in a recent staff survey, 97% of colleagues said that they were proud to work for Leek Building Society. We’ve been crowned as Staffordshire’s Employer of the Year for 2023, and have been recognised as having the best approach to health & wellbeing in the UK in the 2023 CIPD awards. We’re also a socially responsible, inclusive employer, deeply committed to ensuring that everyone is supported to perform at their best.

    https://www.leekbs.co.uk/ (opens in new tab)

    Company benefits

    7.5% Pension Free health screening 23 days paid holiday plus bank holidays Life assurance of 4 times your annual salary Employee assistance programme Onsite gym available to employees

    Disability Confident

    Disability Confident

    A fair proportion of interviews for this apprenticeship will be offered to applicants with a disability or long-term health condition. This includes non-visible disabilities and conditions.

    You can choose to be considered for an interview under the Disability Confident scheme. You’ll need to meet the essential requirements to be considered for an interview.

    After this apprenticeship

    Development into a Software Engineer or other IT role

    Ask a question

    The contact for this apprenticeship is:

    BPP PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION LIMITED

    The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000279684.

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    Closes in 23 days (Thursday 31 October)

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