LTSB are in its 6th year of partnership with
NatWest Group and are looking for young people who are passionate about Banking
& Finance to join a range of apprenticeship opportunities in permanent
roles with the bank in 2024.
Elevate Programme
We are
offering places on our three-week interactive programme where you will receive
employability training, interaction with NatWest Group staff and Q&A
sessions, gain insight into the culture at NatWest Group and other employers,
interview prep work and advice from previous LTSB students on their
apprenticeships.
Programme start date: Monday 1st July
Successful
completion of our programme guarantees you an interview with
NatWest Group for a permanent role.
Starting Salaries: £23,940
LTSB will
continue to support successful candidates until roles commence in October 2024,
and then for the first year of your career.
On the
apprenticeship you’ll study to gain a qualification while putting new skills to
use in work, earning a competitive salary, and being supported professionally
through the programme.
Apprenticeship (the qualification you'll get): Software Developer SCQF 8
(Digital Technology) | QA
Job Description (the role you'll be doing)
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Writing code in various
programming or scripting languages, coding and testing software. Engaging with
my team to find out more about their roles and day to day activities.
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Joining daily/weekly team calls.
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Keeping up with the latest
updates within our industry
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Working on or assisting
colleagues with any pieces of appropriate work..
·
1-1 Coaching sessions with line
manager. Align to the organisation’s
architectural direction and principles, and make sure that the applications and
services being built adhere to them.
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Liaise with lead engineers,
architects, business analysts and other key stakeholders to understand the
objectives and requirements.
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Support well thought out
estimates after a thorough consideration of design, build and testing of
complexity and maintainability and serviceability.
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Support the design and
development of high-volume, high-performance and high-availability applications
using proven frameworks and technologies. Support the design and development of
reusable libraries and application programming interfaces for use across the
bank.
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Support the design and
development of software that is amenable for a greater automation of build,
release testing. and deployment process on all environments.
·
Support the reuse and sharing of
platform components and technologies within the software engineering teams.
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Deliver software components to
enable the delivery of platforms, applications and services.
·
Write unit and integration
tests, in automated test environments to ensure code quality.
Eligibility
We are looking for young people aged 16 – 24 who are passionate
about building a career in Digital & Technology. You don’t need
previous experience, but you do need to show evidence of a genuine interest in
the role and the banking sector.
We work in
areas where talent struggles to find opportunity, and so we are specifically
looking for young people who were eligible for free school meals, or from areas
of low educational attainment, or have faced personal disadvantage. To be
eligible you must meet the following criteria:
For all the roles, you must be eager to learn and succeed!
