Building a career in tech
Our apprenticeship programme helps individuals sharpen their programming skills and learn to ship high-quality code.
Our 18-month programme teaches apprentices how to deliver high-quality software that helps organisations make a positive impact through technology – fast.
Apprenticeship applications are closed for 2024
Please visit our careers page to see our current open roles.
About the programme
Who’s this apprenticeship for?
Whether this is a first job, a change of direction or a return to work – our apprenticeship is for any keen problem solvers with a passion for coding. Over 18 months we teach everything there is to know as our apprentices start their career in software.
What they learn
Over 18 months each apprentice works towards an accredited level 4 DevOps apprenticeship programme.
During that time they learn to develop their technical software and person-centred skills while gaining hands-on experience working on real client projects. Apprentices see how our values are demonstrated in our work and learn how to thrive in a consultancy environment.
Continuous development
Throughout the apprenticeship, each individual is involved in different types of learning activities that help grow their knowledge.
- Learning time fixed learning days develop the skills and behaviours that will help them progress.
- Pair working all our teams practise pair working, so apprentices spend some of their time working hands-on with others.
- Retrospectives we run retrospectives every few weeks where they can look at what’s been going well and how to improve.
- Show and tells our teams have weekly show and tells where we share what we’ve been working on.
- Growth programme each apprentice meets with their coach on a 6-weekly basis to set growth targets to help them thrive on their learning programme.
- Conferences and meetups everyone is given the opportunity to attend conferences and meetups to meet other like-minded people.
- Individual learning budget apprentices receive an individual budget to pay for resources to help them succeed.
Reasons to join
Real-world experience
Apprentices work on exciting projects that use technology to improve the lives of real people.
Nationally recognised qualification
After successfully completing the apprenticeship programme, each individual is awarded a level 4 DevOps qualification.
Earn while learning
Apprentices earn a salary of £25,000 per year and after successful completion of their first 12 months, we provide a one off top up payment. Once they’ve successfully completed their apprenticeship programme, we align their salary to our Made Tech pay framework.
A full-time job
Apprentices work at Made Tech full time and are given a clear pathway for their career progression once they’ve successfully completed their qualification.
Meet the team
Dom Patmore
Dom is our Learning & Development Specialist Technical – Engineering Coach. He’s taught and worked in technology for over 20 years. He’s owned by 2 cats, competes in weightlifting, loves mathematics, games and sewing.
Chez Peet
Chez is our Learning & Development Team Lead. She’s worked in learning and development for as long as she can remember and has many years experience working with apprentices. She thrives off learning new things, walking in the countryside and visiting new places.
Ben Noble
Ben is a Principal Technologist, which allows him to be an architect, software engineer, strategist and any other technical role. He’s worked in tech for over 15 years for large organisations and small startups. Roller hockey player and cat owner, Ben also teaches our engineers the ways of clean code.
Craig Bass
Craig is a Principal Technologist and has been at Made Tech for over 7 years. In that time he’s seen Made Tech grow from less than 10 people. He was involved in running the earliest iterations of our engineering academies and was a prominent member of the committee (trailblazer) which co-authored the DevOps Engineer Apprenticeship specification.
Bil Badul
Bil is part of the talent team and will be supporting the apprenticeship programme.
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