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Duration
One year from 26 June 2023 until 28 June 2024
Salary
£25,000
Locations
Edinburgh, London, Manchester or West Yorkshire.
Help us create technology for millions
We’re the UK’s largest digital bank, serving over 26 million customers, with 17.4 million of them being active online users. And to keep serving them well, we’re investing up to £2bn each year in innovative tech like robotics, machine learning, cloud technology. In fact, in 2020, our commitment to innovation saw us named Euromoney’s Best Digital Bank in Western Europe.
With each new development, we need to remain laser-focused on our customers and their changing needs. And that’s where our Engineers come in. Their role is to help us develop software and services that improve people’s banking experiences.
Is our Engineering Industrial Placement for you?
If you're passionate about technology and you love playing with code, engineering could be for you.
Our programme gives you the chance to explore the many varied and exciting disciplines within engineering, with learning pathways that can take you into DevOps, Infrastructure, Quality, Security, Service, Software and Site Reliability Engineering. As you explore, you’ll develop knowledge of leading technologies like Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, Azure and Google Cloud.
All our engineers are collaborative by nature. Working within a specific business area, they’re transforming banking to meet our customers’ needs and supporting our purpose of Helping Britain Prosper. As well as being strong communicators and great team players, they’re keen to always keep learning. If that sounds like something you can relate to, this is the scheme for you.
What you'll learn on the Engineering Industrial Placement
From the moment you start, you’ll be working alongside our experienced Engineers to deliver exceptional services to customers. You could be working on large-scale projects, writing code in different languages, creating DevOps pipelines, building new features for our mobile app or creating a robot that automatically restores our core banking services.
Whatever the challenge, you’ll learn how to use agile and waterfall methodologies to tackle it and see first-hand the difference your contribution can make when you’re part of a collaborative team.
Supported by your Engineering Lead, you can take up extra learning and accreditations such as cloud training and certification courses. You’ll also have access to our market-leading on demand learning platform, as well as the chance to network with other engineers at our hackathons, which are sponsored by partners such as Google, Microsoft and IBM. And if you do well, you could even score a fast-track assessment for our Engineering Graduate Scheme.
The work you could be doing
Developing your coding skills using languages like JavaScript, C#, Python, Swift, Node and Kotlin
Helping to automate processes that save colleagues and customers time
Testing new software to make sure it provides a seamless customer experience
Stress-testing customer journeys and finding ways to improve them
Helping to build customer service infrastructure that’ll be used in branches
Is this for you?
What you need to apply
You’ll need a basic understanding of at least one modern programming language or framework, a love of technology and a strong desire to learn.
Locations
Our Engineering Industrial Placements are based at our Edinburgh, London, Manchester and West Yorkshire hubs. You’ll select one of these locations during your application. Although you’ll be applying to one location, places are limited. You can tell us if you’re willing to consider being based at another hub on your application.
Closing date
Applications for this scheme are now closed – please register your interest to be notified when the vacancy is next live.
The application process
Our application process is designed to give all candidates the opportunity to excel. You’ll find everything you need to know, including stages of the process and tips to help you succeed, on our how to apply page.
Please note: We’ll only accept one application per candidate, per year. However, if the programme you apply for is full, and your skills and interests match other programmes within the same job family, we’ll get in touch to talk about these opportunities.
Our working practices
Many of our roles have flexible working, so you can work between home and our hubs. We mainly come together to collaborate, and you’ll agree with your placement teams where, when and how you work.
Meet Rose Mary
Rose Mary changed careers before becoming a graduate again, so it was important for her to find the right kind of workplace, somewhere where wellbeing is at the forefront. As part of the Technology Engineering Graduate Scheme, not only has she found a happy work-life balance, but she also hopes to work up from her graduate role to become a manager and mentor.
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Your development
People work best when they feel happy and valued. That's why you'll receive the tools you need to develop the career you want – from mentoring to tailored learning and much more. We'll support you to complete a professional qualification – such as ACT, CFA, LIBF, or CIMA – and you'll also have the chance to lead on UK community volunteering initiatives.
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