Degree Apprentice - Software Engineering
Within your Degree Apprenticeship, you'll combine practical workplace experience with academic study, enabling you to apply your learning directly to real projects and business challenges. From day one, you'll become part of the team, contributing to live projects and gaining practical experience through meaningful work and responsibility.
Role
As a member of one of the Agile software or embedded software development teams you will:
- Work with a product owner to understand and influence requirements
- Take part in collaborative planning and estimating of product features
- Design and document your software artefacts using industry leading tools and processes
- Create effective and secure software solutions using contemporary so ware development languages
- Perform code reviews, debugging and refactoring to improve code quality and efficiency
- Demonstrate new functionality
- Learn to use automated testing tools to ensure quality standards are met
Additionally, if you take the engineering management track, you will learn to:
- Manage requirements, costs, resource utilisation and variations.
- Manage a positive relationship with stakeholders through outstanding communication
- Ensure all employees work safely and their workplace needs are understood and managed
- Promote a culture of innovation, autonomy and mastery to deliver strategic aim and vision
Training
- Part of being an apprentice at Yunex Traffic means you get to work on real life projects whilst also being supported on a guided learning journey
- This will be a 4 -year apprenticeship where you will be put onto the Digital and Technology Solutions standard with a pathway into Software Engineering
- You will attend Solent University on a 1-day a week basis
- Permanent employment after apprenticeship as a software engineer
- Apprenticeship Standard
- Digital and technology solutions professional (level 6)
- Training Provider
- SOLENT UNIVERSITY, SOUTHAMPTON
- Working Week
- Monday to Friday, 9.00am to 5.00pm. Hybrid working role where you may be able to work from home for 2 days a week.
- Expected Duration
- 4 Years
- Positions Available
- 2
- Closing Date
- Thursday, 31st December 2026
- Start Date
- Tuesday, 31st August 2027
Desired Skills
- Communication skills
- IT skills
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Problem solving skills
- Presentation skills
- Number skills
- Analytical skills
- Logical
- Team working
- Creative
- Curiosity
Qualifications
- English GCSE, grade 4 (Essential)
- Maths GCSE, grade 4 (Essential)
- 3 A-Levels A Level, grade C or above, or BTEC equivalent (Essential)
About the Employer
Yunex Traffic
We operate in 24 countries around the world and make infrastructure permanently environmentally friendly and efficient with cutting-edge digital technology in hundreds of cities. Our smart mobility solutions are currently deployed in major cities around the world, including Dubai, London, Berlin, Bogota and Miami. We have 3100+ employees from 58 nations in our 24 offices all over the world.