Software Developer Apprentice

Level 4 Software Developer

Company –BCD Travel

Full Address –Broad Street House, 55 Old Broad Street, London, EC2M 1GT

Weekly Hours Worked –37.5 hours

Salary –£18,000 per annum

Please contact Rebecca.rhodes@estio.co.uk or call 01133 500 333

About the company:

BCD Travel helps companies make the most of what they spend on travel. For travellers this means keeping them safe and productive, and equipping them to make good choices on the road. For travel and procurement managers, it means advising them on how to grow the value of their travel programme. In short, we help our clients travel smart and achieve more. We make this happen globally with more than 13,000 creative, committed and experienced people.

For more information, visit www.bcdtravel.co.uk.

Brief job description:

Estio Training have an exciting new opportunity for a Software Developer Apprentice with BCD Travel, a travel management company based in London.

Job Description:

BCD Travel are looking for a Software Developer apprentice with a willingness to learn. You will not only receive training from your provider but internally from the Development team.

Your duties and responsibilities in this role will consist of:

• You will be writing simple code for apps
• You will be taught the principles of good user interface design
• You will be applying industry standards (Corporate Travel) to manage code during build and release
• You will use basic analysis models such as using cases and process maps
• You will be involved in unit testing
• You’ll have a whole team to rely on and will be coached by our field experts as well as by our Travel Academy trainers.

Qualifications:

• 5 GCSEs grades A*-C/9-4 or equivalent (including English Language and Maths)

Skills Required:

• You’ll have an interest in software and application development
• You’ll have keyboarding skills and ideally have used Microsoft Outlook, Word and Excel.
• And it’s important that you understand attention to detail and are analytical in your approach

Personal qualities:

• You’ll want to learn new skills and will be keen to expand your knowledge of technology
• You will be expected to self-study, so it’s important that you have both motivation and commitment.
• You’ll be friendly and enjoy working with people — your BCD colleagues
• You’ll fit right in if you have an interest in working for a company with strong values and community spirit.

Future prospects:

The role offers long term security and the opportunity to progress into a permanent position.

Training to be provided:

Estio apprenticeship training programmes are delivered virtually by our fully qualified and industry experienced training team. Using their expert knowledge, we’ve purposefully built our programmes around the real-world use of modern technology, so that the skills we create can be directly applied in the workplace.

Throughout the apprenticeship learners receive coaching, help and guidance from a dedicated team who are there to ensure they get the most from their work experience.

Successful completion of this apprenticeship gives you an accredited Level 4 Software Developer, with training in how to:

• Create logical and maintainable codes for software development.
• Apply security best practice to the software solution throughout the software development life cycle.
• Apply appropriate recovery techniques to ensure the software solution being developed is not lost.
• Implement accurate and effective change control.
• Undertake unit testing of solutions, with appropriate levels of test code coverage, to identify and resolve issues.
• Apply suitable ‘bug fixes’ based on severity and priority.

For a full list of programme modules visit: estio.co.uk/courses/software-developer