Degree Apprenticeship – Digital Technology Solutions (Alderley Park, Cheshire)

Royal London Mutual Insurance Society Limited

Congleton Rd Nether Alderley (SK10 4EL)

Closes on Wednesday 28 May 2025

Posted on 25 April 2025

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Summary

Looking to start a career in tech, earn a degree and get paid while doing it? At Royal London, we believe your background should never limit your future. Royal London is the UK’s largest mutual life, pensions and investment company. We’re owned by our members and work for their benefit, not for shareholder profits, and that makes us different.

Wage

£13,741 to £22,222.20, depending on your age

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Offering a competitive wage - the full wage will be disclosed during interview process.

Training course
Digital and technology solutions professional (level 6)
Hours
Mon-Fri. Shifts TBC.

35 hours a week

Start date

Monday 22 September 2025

Duration

3 years

Positions available

10

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

We’re looking for people that love all things about software and technology and want to work with us towards a degree apprenticeship. The three-year programme starts in September 2025 in our Group Technology Office. You’ll be joining a team of tech-savvy professionals who love to innovate and solve problems. From day one you’ll play an important role in making sure that our technology is secure, efficient and meets the future needs of the business. 

What’s in it for you? 

  • Earn while you learn – gain a recognised degree with no student debt.
  • Competitive salary with regular reviews
  • Generous pension scheme of up to 14%
  • Life assurance of up to 8 x annual salary
  • 24/7 confidential access to health, legal and financial advice
  • A structured programme that will see you rotate around the Technology team
  • Support from a dedicated People Leader, Rotation Lead and Buddy in addition to Ada’s network
  • Join a community of learners and mentors and be part of inclusion networks, social events and opportunities across the business

What will I be doing?

As part of this apprenticeship, you’ll study part time towards a BSc (Hons) Digital and Technology Solutions degree at Ada, National College for Digital Skills and will meet the criteria of the Software Engineering pathway. This comprises technical training, workplace projects, off the job learning and an end point assessment.

It is an 80:20 split: 80% in Royal London’s office and 20% on campus in central Manchester. The role will require you to work 35 hours per week Monday to Friday, with 1 week in every 8 spent training with Ada and the other 7 weeks working at Royal London on real projects that impact the lives of our customers and colleagues. Additionally, you’ll join an induction week to get to know other apprentices and help you balance undergraduate-level study with working full-time. 

You’ll be assigned an Ada Skills Coach and workplace people leader who will undertake regular progress reviews and support you in your work and studies. You can read more about the course here. 

What else do I need to know? 

You should be able to start work from mid-September 2025 and attend a 5 week Launchpad training programme at Ada college from late September 2025.

Our expectation is that you will come into the office for 100% of your time (when not learning). We believe spending time in the office gives you the best chance to build relationships, learn from others, and succeed - so we ask that apprentices be present full-time when not studying. 

We welcome diverse perspectives. 

At Royal London we believe your difference is our strength. Studies show that people from under-represented groups often hesitate to apply unless they meet every requirement.
So if this role excites you, but you don’t meet 100% of the criteria - please still apply. You could be exactly who we need.

Where you’ll work

Royal London House
Alderley Park
Congleton Rd Nether Alderley
SK10 4EL

Training

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

College or training organisation

ADA NATIONAL COLLEGE FOR DIGITAL SKILLS

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

Our Level 6 standard is integrated with a degree in Digital & Technology solutions which is validated by the Open University. Each cohort spends their first 5 weeks at college taking part in our Launchpad training. 

This training not only covers modules for the degree programme but also ensures to prepare you for the workplace. 

Following the Launchpad training you will return to your employer for 7-8 weeks returning to Ada for one-week blocks on a rotation basis. 

Requirements

Essential qualifications

GCSE or equivalent in:

  • Maths (grade 4)
  • English (grade 4)

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

  • Administrative skills

Other requirements

Recruitment Process: Apply to Ada, the National College for Digital Skills - Successful applicants will be screened for eligibility which includes a brief remote interview. Successful shortlisted candidates will be invited to an assessment day at our office - lunch and all materials provided. Assessment centres and interviews with Royal London are planned for early July - exact dates TBC. As we expect strong interest in this role, we may close the vacancy earlier than planned. We encourage you to apply promptly if you’re interested. PLEASE UPLOAD YOUR CV IN A PDF FORMAT

About this company

Royal London is the UK's largest mutual life pensions and investment company. We’re owned by our members and work for their benefit, not for shareholder profits and that makes us different.

After this apprenticeship

What kind of work will I do?  

You’ll get hands-on experience of designing, implementing and maintaining a range of business-critical technology solutions. With time you’ll begin to understand the interaction between people, systems and business performance. 

As you learn and support the day-to-day operations, we’ll look to you to show off your creative flair, bringing fresh perspective to existing processes and methodologies. 
 

Ask a question

The contact for this apprenticeship is:

ADA NATIONAL COLLEGE FOR DIGITAL SKILLS

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000317079.

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Closes on Wednesday 28 May 2025

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