Lancaster University Hiring for Apprentice Software Engineer Job at Lancaster, England Full Time

There is a revolution underway in Higher Education – and Lancaster University is leading it. As one of the top Universities in the world, we have always been innovators and our future will be driven by the possibilities created by new technologies.

Digital innovation is at the heart of our strategy and ambition. In the IT Partnering and Innovation Team, we are focused on developing new ways of delivering the best experience possible for all our students and staff, whether they are based at our green Campus or located at home, wherever that may be in the world. Joining us is your chance to help lead the transformation.

The Opportunity

We are searching for a potential new apprentice software engineer, to play a role in our creative and forward-thinking team. The main purpose of this role is to help develop and support new innovation products throughout the full development stack. The successful candidate will want to work with cloud and on-premise development tools and framework, and be willing to work across a range of emerging frameworks.

We have a track record of helping new developers into the field with mentoring, training and opportunities.

What you will need

The successful candidate must be willing to learn programming languages and frameworks such as C# and React and want to have experience of working with AWS and Azure.

Please refer to the included job description and person specification for further details of essential and desirable qualifications for the role.

So why us?

You would be joining an agile, innovative team working to provide applications and services which have high impact and visibility. We are committed to supporting our new team members including students and have built an environment that fosters knowledge sharing and consideration of others.

The Campus is surrounded by beautiful countryside and is only a short distance from the historic city of Lancaster and within an hour’s drive of the lake district, a UNESCO world heritage site. We are:

• Encouraging of a positive work/life balance and enable flexible working from home, or elsewhere, whenever appropriate and possible.
• Supportive of your personal and professional development; we foster an environment where you will be encouraged to learn new skills and technologies.
• Recognising of the talents of our diverse workforce through an excellent reward package that includes 25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays and University closure days), a generous pension scheme, and a flexible benefits package that includes options for travel, childcare, wellbeing and the purchase of additional leave.
• As a truly global and inclusive university, it is no surprise that Lancaster University is committed to creating an environment where everyone can thrive and fulfil their potential. Students from over one hundred countries make up our diverse campus and over half of our staff come from outside of the UK. Lancaster is an open and welcoming community that values equality and diversity. Our promotion of global values ensures Lancaster is a welcoming environment for all students and staff.

We are proactive in engagement with our staff to help us to understand the lived experiences of our university community and to understand how we are doing in creating a fairer and more inclusive University. Our multi-faith Chaplaincy Centre is a welcoming place for people of all faiths and none.

This is a great opportunity for someone to become a developer that will have a transformative impact on the student experience of digital learning and further their own career in technology.

Please contact Brian Green ([email protected]), Head of Innovation and Mobile Development, if you have any questions or concerns and would like to informally discuss the role.

We particularly welcome applications from women and black and minority ethnic people for this role in order to increase our staff diversity in this part of the University.