Digital Apprentice

**Details**:
**Reference number**:

- 296509**Salary**:

- £22,150 - £30,610**Job grade**:

- Administrative Assistant**Contract type**:

- Permanent
- Apprenticeship**Business area**:

- WRA - Strategy**Type of role**:

- Digital**Working pattern**:

- Flexible working, Full-time**Number of jobs available**:

- 2Contents

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About the job

**Benefits**:
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Location
- Cardiff, Wales, CF10 3NQAbout the job

**Job summary**:
At the Welsh Revenue Authority (WRA), we’re responsible for collecting and managing 2 devolved Welsh taxes: Land Transaction Tax and Landfill Disposals Tax, on behalf of the Welsh Government. The revenue we raise funds public services, like the NHS and schools, in communities across Wales.

We’re committed to helping deliver a fair tax system for Wales through what we call ‘Our Approach’ - a Welsh way of doing tax. By working collaboratively with representatives, partner organisations, taxpayers, and the public, we make sure taxes are collected efficiently and effectively.

We base everything we do on our **corporate plan**. This sets out our purpose, strategic objectives, and longer-term ambitions. We report on our work annually - see our latest **annual report and accounts**.

We’re a small and multi-skilled organisation of more than 80 staff, with talents, skills and experience spanning 14 different professions. We champion innovation, collaboration and shared decision-making. And we empower and entrust our people with high levels of responsibility and autonomy.

Find out more about what it’s like to work with us in our latest **People Survey**.

For further information, please visit **gov.wales/wra**

**Job description**:
**Digital Apprentice (TS)**:
This is an exciting opportunity that will provide you with valuable skills and experience whilst working towards a 4½ year Digital Degree Apprenticeship programme with the University of South Wales studying a BSc (Honours) in Digital & Technology Solutions (Software Engineering).

You will use prototyping and learn how to work in an open and collaborative environment.

The WRA is a fully cloud based organisation, and we use leading software development practices. This is a unique opportunity to work in a cutting edge, challenging and rewarding software environment.

**Junior developer (EO)**:
After 3 years in the post, there will be an opportunity to advance to a Junior Developer role. This will be dependent on your academic progress as well as an assessment of your progression within the role.

In this role, you will assist the team in the design of components of larger systems, and participate in tackling the challenges of designing, building, and testing interfaces between systems.

“We are one of the first fully cloud based organisations and this is an exciting time for us as we have the opportunity to design and develop services for devolved taxes.”

Alun Lee

Lead Developer

**Person specification**:

- Help solve business problems and design systems under guidance. Understand the business problem which needs to be solved, and work with others across the organisation to implement an appropriate solution.
- Follow best-practice guidelines, and write clean code.
- Identify issues in production and work with colleagues to resolve them.
- Control releases using CI/CD tools and provide support once these have gone live.
- Escalate problems and issues as they arise to the Lead Developer.

**Qualifications**:
**Languages**:

- The following list of language requirements represents an objective assessment of the Welsh language skills required to undertake the duties of this post:

- Welsh language skills Welsh skills are desirable
- Reading 0 = No skills
- Spoken 0 = No skills
- Understanding 0 = No skills
- Written 0 = No skills
- Welsh desirable means that having Welsh language skills would be useful in this role, but it is not an assessment criteria so it won’t put you at any disadvantage during recruitment if you aren’t a Welsh speaker. We support all staff to learn or improve their Welsh language skills once they join us.**Benefits**:
We offer a wide range of benefits when you join the WRA, such as:

- 31 days annual leave + 2 privilege days
- flexible working
- a generous employer contribution Civil Service pension scheme
- Cycle to Work scheme and season ticket loans
- learning opportunities including funded Welsh language courses
- dedicated wellbeing time offered weekly
- a highly engaged and collaborative culture - see **our People Survey results**

Find out more about the benefits of **working for us**.

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**Selection process details**:
In brief, this approach means:

- we look for evidence of what you have done and what you can do. This means we look for the behaviours, strengths and ability needed to do the job
- where necessary or relevant, we also consider experience and technical knowledge
- we may only look for some things at certain stages. We’ll