Apprentice Software Developer

About the role:

The MHR Software Academy programme is designed to give you ownership of your career aspirations, supported by training and practical experience to help you succeed. You will be part of our People First Software team and be assigned a Mentor who will support and guide you throughout your career with us. All of this is designed to complement your career development, fuel your ambition, and give depth to your training and career.

We expect you to be ready to tackle (and enjoy!) programming tasks from the outset, but we will take the time to mentor you through small packages of work and enhancements to our People First product. You will get the exposure to all our technology stacks these include C# .NET, and an Angular front end. But don’t worry whatever you may choose now doesn’t set the rest of your career we would love to see you grow in all our technology stack as you develop. The Academy program is set up to help and support you for the first stages of your programming career before moving on to work in our product teams looking after the key modules of our People First Software offering which includes HR, Talent, and Payroll. 

The programme 

If you are not already a graduate then the programme has been design to allow you to be supported from Level 4, all the the way to gaining a BSc Digital and Technology Solutions Professional. 

You will complete your Level 4 Software Developer Apprenticeship with our apprenticeship partner, Digital Native and if progression through to the degree is right for you, then you will join our university partner, Nottingham Trent University, directly on year two of their Digital and Technology Solutions Professional degree programme. 

This means you can join MHR, gain valuable industry experience with our highly skilled people and be paid to gain a degree, all without any student fees!

Expected Competencies you will have:

• A proven interest in coding through your A Level / college course or online platforms like Code Academy and are seeking a Level 4 Software Developer apprenticeship.
• A passionate individual who is excited about software development, a desire to learn and who wants to forge a long-standing career with MHR.
• A passion for technology, programming, and problem solving.
  An awareness of the Software Delivery Lifecycle and Agile methodologies.

Due to the highly skilled teams our apprentices work in, our experience has shown that apprentices who thrive at MHR have typically been coding for more than 12 months. 

What will your day-to-day role look like?

• You will be taken on a fully planned onboarding program welcoming you to MHR and our products/services.
• Based on your skillset we will tailor a training program just for you based on a phased approach to build you up to working in our product delivery teams.

Key areas we will focus on throughout your time with us in the Software Academy are:

• How to write good quality code using defined coding standards and guardrails.
• How to test any changes that are made and the process we go through.
• Understanding build processes and deployments of the People First software.
• How to write performant and secure code.
• Giving you the chance to learn from attending talks, pair programming, watching tutorials and writing of code.
• In the later phases of the Academy, we will identify product improvements from the Product Design and Research teams and ways for you to deliver value stream work into the product.

• Communication skills
• IT skills
• Attention to detail
• Organisation skills
• Problem solving skills
• Number skills
• Analytical skills
• Logical
• Team working
• Initiative
• Patience

• 7 GCSE's including Maths and English GCSE or equivalent, grade Grade A*-C/9-4 (or equivalent (Essential)
• Maths, Science, Computer Science or similar A Level or equivalent, grade A - C (Essential)