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Technology Engineering Industrial Placement

Work with cutting-edge technology and engineering to impact millions of customers. Bring tomorrow closer.

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Technology Engineering Industrial Placement

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Duration

One year, from June 2026.

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Salary

£25,000 + fantastic benefits. 

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Locations

South West (Bristol & Cardiff), West Yorkshire (Halifax & Leeds), North West (Manchester, Cheadle and Chester) & Edinburgh.


We support hybrid working. We ask colleagues to spend at least two days in the office per week. 

 

Why Join Us?

We provide for 28 million digitally active customers. That’s one enormous data set, helping to define how we move forward. Encouraging our focus on green finance. And offering sustainable products that deliver a better future.

We’ve invested over £3 Billion in our people, tech, and data. Because that’s how you make big change happen.

Launch Your Tech Career

Want to play your part in our digital transformation? If you do, you’ll work alongside expert Technology Engineers. Learn new skills. Contribute your ideas. Help create better, faster and safer ways for us to serve our customers. Take opportunities to grow. Better grab the chance to start a career that means something. 

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A Technology Engineering Placement that’s right for you

Fancy a challenge? The chance to make innovative digital products even better. If you’re eager to explore tech and coding, this could be your perfect fit.


Dive into all kinds of engineering. Make a real impact on millions of customers, businesses, and communities. Explore Software Engineering. DevOps. Quality Engineering. Cyber Security. Get hands-on with the latest tech and develop future-fit skills- containerisation, source control, pipelines. In no time, you’ll be a tech engineer able to work in the Cloud, API dev and integration spaces. 


Alongside our Tech Engineers, working with our labs to design and develop strategy and implementation plans. If innovation and collaboration are your thing, this placement is for you.  

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What You’ll Learn

You'll work alongside experienced Engineers to deliver vital services from your first day. That could mean working on large-scale transformations. Creating DevOps pipelines. Building new app features. We’ll teach you to use Agile methodology. You'll get to see the impact of your contribution on the team. 

We’ll give you access to on-demand learning platforms. And run hackathons with Google, Microsoft and IBM where you can network. There’s always learning and certification opportunities up for grabs.

Even better, if you shine on your placement, you could find yourself fast-tracked to our Technology Engineering Graduate Scheme.

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What You’ll Do

  • Develop coding skills with languages like JavaScript, Java, C#, Python, Smith and Kotlin
  • Automate processes to save time for colleagues and customers
  • Ensure new software offers a seamless customer experience
  • Stress-test customer journeys and find improvements
  • Build customer service infrastructure for branches
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Requirements

You’ll need to:
•    Be in your penultimate year of university during the placement dates.
•    Posses strong problem-solving skills.
•    Love Tech and want to learn

This programme operates across the UK:
•    South West (Bristol & Cardiff)
•    West Yorkshire (Halifax & Leeds)
•    North West (Manchester, Cheadle and Chester)
•    Edinburgh
You choose where to be based and stay there for the full year.
We support hybrid working, but ask all colleagues to be in the office for a minimum of two days a week.

Applications for all locations are closed for the 2025 intake. Applications for our 2026 intake will go live on or around October 2025. 

You know what’s important to us? Giving everyone the chance to shine in their application. We want you to feel like you belong here, no matter what your background, identity or culture.

Find details on what stages are involved and tips for success on the  how to apply page.

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