Software Development Apprentice

**Employer description:**

**About Us:**

Adviser Cloud is a cloud based back office system specifically designed for the IFA industry. Focusing purely on creating simple to use yet powerful software. This boast lots of integrations and allows for new challenges every day.

We are a company who focus on creating the future of financial technologies, which is why we have a second product in line to improving financial advice. A new product named DIGI, which offers Discretionary Portfolio Management, Investment Platform and IntuitiveTechnology to financial advisers.

**Overview:**

As a company, we are on the lookout for intelligent mathematical minds that can improve our business for the better.

We have a 16-month Software Development role.

**Duties and Responsibilities**:
You will be working as part of the core internal development team, primarily focussing on the following:

- Data integration Management - We use SSIS to import data streams, one of your tasks will be to integrate with large financial firms to import data into our SQL Database.
- Understanding financial technical requirements and implementing them into live technology either via your own code fixes or by specification.
- Working on all points of the Development cycle, you will get the chance to understand the whole development cycle in our business, not just coding.
- Report Writing - You will use report writing software to produce templates to meet client requirements.

**Desired skills and experience**:

- Good mathematical skills
- API Technologies
- C#
- ASP Net
- JavaScript
- Angular
- HTML
- XML
- SQL Server
- SSIS

**Personal qualities**:

- Enthusiasm and an aptitude to learn new skills
- Good written and verbal communication skills
- Keen eye for detail
- Willingness to learn
- Able to ask questions

**Entry requirements**:
7 GCSE's total:

- English GCSE grade D or above
- Other 6 GCSE's, including Maths, to be C or above

You may also have a combination of qualifications and experience which demonstrate the minimum foundation needed for the programme. In this instance you could still be considered for the programme.

**Find out more here**:
**Working week**:
37.5hrs a week.

**Future prospects:**

92% of QA Apprentices secure permanent employment after finishing their apprenticeship. Additionally, there may be opportunities to undertake further apprenticeship training as many of our programs offer on-going development tracks.

**Important Information**:
QA’s apprenticeships are funded by the Education & Skills Funding Agency (ESFA), an executive agency of the Department for Education.

To be eligible for a Government funded apprenticeship you must have lived in the UK or European Economic Area (EEA) for the last 3 consecutive years.