About IBM

IBM is a leading cloud platform and cognitive solutions company. Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are the largest technology and consulting employer in the world, with more than 350,000 employees serving clients in 170 countries. With Watson, the AI platform for business, powered by data, we are building industry-based solutions to real-world problems. For more than seven decades, IBM Research has defined the future of information technology with more than 3,000 researchers in 12 labs located across six continents. For more information, visit www.ibm.com.

Apprenticeship scheme

Apprenticeships at IBM are all about picking up skills for the workplace and embarking on a long and successful career. We have your professional development in mind from the day you join us as a permanent employee. Our apprenticeships range from Level 3 to Level 6 and each pathway gives you everything you need to start your career in the industry!
You will get lots of exposure to set you up for a life long career. In addition to the day job there are plenty of opportunities to get involved in social activities and volunteering with other Apprentices, Students and Graduates.

Opportunities are located across England and salaries start at £20,000/annum.

Roles open periodically throughout the year.
Please note you can only apply to one role at a time.

Technology Sales

Duration: 3 years
Salary: £20,000
Entry Requirements:

5 GCSEs grade 4-9 including Maths and English Language. You will also need to have completed further education or equivalent.

Do you enjoy communicating with people? Do you want to learn about innovative technical and industry solutions? Then join IBM and become an IT Technical Salesperson!

As an IT Technical Salesperson you'll build relationships with prospects, clients, Business Partners and IBMers across a whole range of industries. We'll train you up on IBM's cutting edge technology products and services.

This role is very rewarding but also very challenging, so you'll need to be enthusiastic and hard working!

You don’t need to be studying a technical A-Level or equivalent, we accept all subject backgrounds.

Software Developer

Duration: 3 years
Salary: £20,000
Entry Requirements:

5 GCSEs grade 4-9 including Maths and English Language. You will also need to have completed further education or equivalent.

Are you interested in the opportunity to become an Application Developer, a Blue Mix App Developer or a Web Developer? Then the Software Developer Apprenticeship is for you!

In this role you will learn how to write, build and test high-quality code across front end, logic and database layers whilst also developing effective user interfaces, link code to data sources and analyse test results to correct errors!

At IBM you’ll be given the chance to work with ground-breaking technologies and be continually making a difference!

You don’t need to be studying a technical A-Level or equivalent, we accept all subject backgrounds.

Junior DevOps Engineer

Duration: 3 years
Salary: £20,000
Location: Multiple sites
Entry Requirements:

5 GCSEs grade 4-9 including Maths and English Language. You will also need to have completed further education or equivalent.

Do you have a passion for Technology and making it work? We’re looking for people who want to pursue a hands-on technical career working with financial services customers. People who can roll up their sleeves, get stuck in, and get things delivered for a large UK Based financial services customer. Sound like you?

As a Junior DevOps Engineer you will learn about Agile delivery and be part of a team delivering automation and DevOps expertise for the customer. The types of problems you’ll face will be varied and the solutions you help create will be innovative. It could be developing a continuous delivery pipeline, automating the configuration of infrastructure, or orchestrating a set of technical activities to make them repeatable.

It will be hard work, you will need to be resilient, but it will be rewarding. You’ll need to be the type of person who is up for a challenge and likes learning both on the job and in your own time. You don’t need to be studying a technical A-Level or Equivalent, but you will need to be able to demonstrate your passion for technology and explain how you’ve used it to solve problems.

Junior Technical Consultant

Duration: 3 years
Salary: £20,000
Entry Requirements:

5 GCSEs grade 4-9 including Maths and English Language. You will also need to have completed further education or equivalent.

Do you want to learn to engage with clients and help them build technical solutions to their business needs? Do you want to consult with clients across different industries, and turn their business needs into computer code? This role is for you!

As a Technical Management Consultant, you will combine cutting edge methodologies and knowledge of the industry with the latest technologies such as Cognitive Systems, Machine Learning, Cloud Computing and Blockchain.

You’ll be responsible for interpreting the clients’ needs to develop working prototypes and proof of concepts. You will code, test and architect critical business systems and applications. Ultimately you will create genuine technical solutions addressing real client challenges.

You don’t need to be studying a technical A-Level or equivalent, we accept all subject backgrounds.

Test Engineer

Duration: 3 years
Salary: £20,000
Entry Requirements:

5 GCSEs grade 4-9 including Maths and English Language. You will also need to have completed further education or equivalent.

Have you ever thought 'Why?"

"Why does that do that?"
"Why can't we do it this way?"
"Why is this so difficult to use?"
"Wouldn't it be great if we didn't need that any more?"
If you spend some of your time thinking about questions like those, then IBM is the perfect place for your career to flourish.

Our clients include high street banks, petrol and energy companies, the government, mobile phone companies, and names on the high street and on-line shopping. With the right training, you’ll be helping our clients prove that the IT systems that their customers use will be fast, secure and reliable. As a software test engineer Apprentice we’ll provide you with a mix of classroom based education, mentoring & coaching, and real experience working directly with our teams on client accounts. In return, we’d love you to bring your curiosity, your enthusiasm to try new things and a fresh approach to finding solutions to some of IBM’s and our client’s problems.

Over the two year programme, you will receive training and learning on:- Software development –how software goes from an idea to a solution a customer can use Software testing –how to prove that what has been developed works as it should do Consultancy –how to work with different people in different scenarios –some nice but some tricky - and in different countries General business knowledge –how do businesses work and operate, from the money to the marketing to the admin support How to work as part of small and large teams, either close to home or around the UK

Junior Management Consultant

Duration: 3 years
Salary: £20,000
Entry Requirements: 5 GCSEs grade 4-9 including Maths and English Language. You will also need to have completed further education or equivalent.

Do you want to learn the fundamentals of consulting, as well as develop your technical skills to kick-start your career? Do you want to analyse requirements and manage enterprise implementations? This role is for you!

As a Junior Management Consultant, you will understand the end-to-end client engagement process and couple this with key methodology such as Design Thinking techniques. When you combine this with knowledge of the industry and an understanding of cutting edge technologies, you will be able to create high value solutions to some of the biggest client organisations in the world.

You’ll be responsible for understanding and interpreting clients’needs, using evidence to support recommendations, supporting proposals with a focus on the technical implementation of solutions to help our clients improve their business outcomes!

You don’t need to be studying a technical A-Level or equivalent, we accept all subject backgrounds.

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