Data and IT Degree Apprenticeship

Summary

As a degree apprentice at GRB, You'll support internal IT operations, assist with software development, and provide tech support across the company. Tasks include triaging support tickets, setting up systems, maintaining hardware/software, testing new tools, and supporting recruitment projects with data analysis and digital assessments.

Wage

£18,000 a year

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Your salary will increase in year 2 and reviewed annually.

Training course

Digital and technology solutions professional (level 6)

Hours

Your working week will be 37 hours, Monday-Friday, including one day per week at university during term time.

37 hours a week

Start date

Monday 8 September 2025

Duration

4 years

Positions available

1

Work

Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.

What you’ll do at work

You will be assisting the team with a range of tasks such as:

Triaging internal support tickets
Setting up new members of staff on IT systems
Installing and maintaining hardware and software
Updating IT documentation and FAQs
Testing new software built by the team

Alongside your work within our internal IT team, you will also have the opportunity to support our recruitment teams with technical aspects of high-value projects. This could involve:

Compiling reports via Power BI to provide insights into campaign performance such as project progress reports, diversity reports and strategic client reviews
Set up and adapt Excel spreadsheets and other analytical tools
Set up and schedule digital assessment centres, ensuring they meet the client’s requirements
Other ad-hoc tasks as required by the recruitment solutions team or our clients

Where you’ll work

UNIT 4
CLIFFTON MEWS
CLIFTON HILL
BRIGHTON
BN1 3HR

Training

Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.

College or training organisation

THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICHESTER

Your training course

Digital and technology solutions professional (level 6)

Equal to degree

Course contents

Analyse a business problem to identify the role of digital and technology solutions.
Identify risks, determine mitigation strategies and opportunities for improvement in a digital and technology solutions project.
Analyse a business problem in order to specify an appropriate digital and technology solution.
Initiate, design, code, test and debug a software component for a digital and technology solution.
Apply relevant standard processes, methods, techniques and tools. For example, ISO Standards, Waterfall, Agile in a digital and technology solution project.
Manage digital and technology solutions projects. For example, identifying and resolving deviations from specification, applying appropriate Project Management methodologies.
Work effectively within teams, leading on appropriate digital technology solution activities.
Apply relevant organisational theories. For example, change management principles, marketing approaches, strategic practice, and IT service management to a digital and technology solutions project.
Apply relevant security and resilience techniques to a digital and technology solution. For example, risk assessments, mitigation strategies.
Initiate, design, implement and debug a data product for a digital and technology solution.
Determine and use appropriate data analysis techniques. For example, Text, Statistical, Diagnostic or Predictive Analysis to assess a digital and technology solutions.
Plan, design and manage simple computer networks with an overall focus on the services and capabilities that network infrastructure solutions enable in an organisational context.
Report effectively to colleagues and stakeholders using the appropriate language and style, to meet the needs of the audience concerned.
Research, investigate, and evaluate innovative technologies or approaches in the development of a digital and technology solution.
Apply relevant legal, ethical, social and professional standards to a digital and technology solution.
Identify and define software engineering problems that are non-routine and incompletely specified.
Provide recommendations as to the most appropriate software engineering solution.
Use appropriate analysis methods, approaches and techniques in software engineering projects to deliver an outcome that meets requirements.
Implement software engineering projects using appropriate software engineering methods, approaches and techniques.
Respond to changing priorities and problems arising within software engineering projects by making revised recommendations, and adapting plans as necessary, to fit the scenario being investigated.
Determine, refine, adapt and use appropriate software engineering methods, approaches and techniques to evaluate software engineering project outcomes.
Evaluate learning points arising from software engineering work undertaken on a project including use of methods, analysis undertaken, selection of approach and the outcome achieved, in order to identify both lessons learnt and recommendations for improvements to future projects.
Extend and update software development knowledge with evidence from professional and academic sources by undertaking appropriate research to inform best practice and lead improvements in the organisation.
Analyse client needs and determine how to advise them strategically through improved business processes, new ideas, or technology solutions.
Effectively communicate value add to the client through a variety of media. For example, presentations, written reports, Storytelling in a professional setting through performing socio-technical process improvements in a range of environments.
Make evidence based recommendations taking into account risks, costs, and benefits.
Participate in walk-throughs for Information Technologies, to identify, document and evaluate key risks within a client’s organisation.
Perform stakeholder analysis to identify, determine and deepen understanding of system requirements and develop client relationships.
Effect change within an organisation through evaluation of a new system, process or initiative.
Ensure legal and ethical requirements are accommodated in the development of digital and technology solutions.
Evaluate the success of new systems, processes, or initiatives.
Use requirements elicitation, analysis and documentation to produce an acceptable solution for business problems or further opportunities.
Conduct Process Analysis, Definition, Mapping and Modelling within a business situation without supervision.
Produce Use Cases which are of value to all stakeholders of a system.
Use tools and benchmarking to support modelling and requirements gathering and recommend approaches to team members as required.
Produce a business case to scope a proposed project including business benefits and recommendations.
Use products of analysis in the design and development of a system.
Evaluate the impacts of model selection and how they inter-relate with each other when generating business analytics.
Recommend and use appropriate software tools to implement Business Analysis tasks and outcomes.
Discover, identify and analyse security threats, attack techniques and vulnerabilities and recommend mitigation and security controls.
Undertake security risk assessments for complex systems without direct supervision and propose a remediation strategy relevant to the context of the organisation.
Recommend improvements to the cyber security approaches of an organisation based on research into future potential cyber threats and considering threat trends.
Manage cyber security risk.
Use appropriate cyber security technology, tools and techniques in relation to the risks identified.
Lead cyber security awareness campaigns and evaluate their effectiveness.
Analyse cyber security requirements against other design requirements for systems or products, identify conflicting requirements and recommend appropriate solutions with clear explanation of costs and benefits.
Lead the design and build of systems in accordance with a security case to address organisational challenges.
Define Data Requirements and perform Data Collection, Data Processing and Data Cleansing.
Apply different types of Data Analysis, as appropriate, to drive improvements for specific business problems.
Find, present, communicate and disseminate data analysis outputs effectively and with high impact through creative storytelling, tailoring the message for the audience. Visualise data to tell compelling and actionable narratives by using the best medium for each audience, such as charts, graphs and dashboards.
Identify barriers to effective analysis encountered both by analysts and their stakeholders within data analysis projects.
Apply a range of techniques for analysing quantitative data such as data mining, time series forecasting, algorithms, statistics and modelling techniques to identify and predict trends and patterns in data.
Apply exploratory or confirmatory approaches to analysing data. Validate and and test stability of the results.
Extract data from a range of sources. For example, databases, web services, open data.
Analyse in detail large data sets, using a range of industry standard tools and data analysis methods.
Identify and collate stakeholder needs in relation to computer network requirements, plans and designs.
Plan, design, document, and develop the relevant elements of a computer network within an organisation or between organisations, taking into account customer requirements (performance, scale), constraints (budget, equipment availability), and define policies for their use.
Monitor performance and ensure networks are configured correctly and perform as expected by designers or architects. Undertake capacity management and audit of IP addressing and hosted devices.
Investigate, troubleshoot and resolve data network faults in local and wide area environments, using information from multiple sources, Physically or Remotely by console connection. Recommend and implement short term fixes to restore service and, or, quality of experience and recommend longer term changes to prevent recurrence or reduce impact of future occurrences.
Implement computer networks from a design including testing and validation. This includes populating variables in configurations, for example, IP addresses and subsequent application of configuration to equipment such as routers, switches, firewalls.
Secure network systems by establishing and enforcing policies, and defining and monitoring access. Support and administer firewall environments in line with IT security policy.
Research and evaluate emerging network technologies and assess relevance to current network requirements. Provide an objective opinion on how new features and technologies may be incorporated as required by the organisation.
Investigate security concerns or attacks. For example, Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS), port scanning, assessing key metrics and indicators, evidencing the chosen steps to mitigate.
Analyse a business problem to identify the role of digital and technology solutions.
Identify risks, determine mitigation strategies and opportunities for improvement in a digital and technology solutions project.
Analyse a business problem in order to specify an appropriate digital and technology solution.
Initiate, design, code, test and debug a software component for a digital and technology solution.
Apply relevant standard processes, methods, techniques and tools. For example, ISO Standards, Waterfall, Agile in a digital and technology solution project.
Manage digital and technology solutions projects. For example, identifying and resolving deviations from specification, applying appropriate Project Management methodologies.
Work effectively within teams, leading on appropriate digital technology solution activities.
Apply relevant organisational theories. For example, change management principles, marketing approaches, strategic practice, and IT service management to a digital and technology solutions project.
Apply relevant security and resilience techniques to a digital and technology solution. For example, risk assessments, mitigation strategies.
Initiate, design, implement and debug a data product for a digital and technology solution.
Determine and use appropriate data analysis techniques. For example, Text, Statistical, Diagnostic or Predictive Analysis to assess a digital and technology solutions.
Plan, design and manage simple computer networks with an overall focus on the services and capabilities that network infrastructure solutions enable in an organisational context.
Report effectively to colleagues and stakeholders using the appropriate language and style, to meet the needs of the audience concerned.
Research, investigate, and evaluate innovative technologies or approaches in the development of a digital and technology solution.
Apply relevant legal, ethical, social and professional standards to a digital and technology solution.

Your training plan

You will receive training and support throughout alongside studying for a formal BSc (Hons) Digital and Technology Solutions degree at the University of Chichester. This will require you to travel to university for one day per week during term-time which will be reimbursed by GRB.

Requirements

Desirable qualifications

A Level in:

3 subjects (grade BCC or equivalent)

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
Attention to detail
Problem solving skills
Number skills
Analytical skills
Team working

About this company

GRB are an independent specialist recruitment business providing first class recruitment solutions to organisations seeking first class talent. Established in 1997, we have grown organically and now have several divisions covering early careers and experienced hire level roles. We operate nationally and have a turnover of over £4m and a diverse team of 70+ across our offices in Brighton.

After this apprenticeship

As you progress through your apprenticeship you will take on on more responsibilities within the team, and have the option to move into a role in software development and integration

Ask a question

The contact for this apprenticeship is:

THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICHESTER

info@grb.uk.com

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000309929.

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Closes in 19 days (Wednesday 30 April 2025)

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