Graduate Programme

Company Description
**We’re Together** -** the** **market leading property finance experts** with an entrepreneurial spirit.**

Here at Together, we’ve been providing specialist finance (loans and mortgages) for nearly 50 years. And although we’re an experienced market leader, we’re a lot like a start-up: growing fast, and always innovating.

Our Graduate Programme promises far more than just a job; it’s the chance to join a thriving business, learn from the best people in the industry, and grow your skills quickly. Join us, and you’ll gain lots of exposure to meaningful business projects, designed to help you gain a holistic understanding of our business, and provide you with an exceptional grounding in property and financial services.

As the world moves to a new way of working, we are looking for innovators who would like to join us and help shape the future of finance technology at Together. Whether you have a passion for software engineering, cyber security or innovative technology generally, join our Tech team to accelerate your learning and your career. You will join a team of industry experts who will work with you to accelerate your development as well as the opportunity to be at the forefront of a radical transformation programme.

With exciting learning opportunities at its core, whatever you work on it will be unique, varied, and will have a direct and rewarding impact on the success of our business.

**Job Description**:
**Graduate Software Engineer** - You will work as part of a multi-disciplinary product team, to design, implement and support in the production of bespoke software systems. Our tech stacks vary between products but include.Net Core, React, Azure API Management, Visual Studio Code / 2019, SQL Server 2014, Azure Devops, Git

**Cyber Security** - You will develop knowledge and skills that will equip you to understand, manage, and mitigate the risk of our critical data and services being disclosed, altered, or denied access to. You will also need to communicate security risk across technical and non-technical stakeholders enabling informed decisions to be made about business direction and priorities.

**Business Designer** - Day to day you will work with stakeholders to understand problems, draw up requirements on an ideal outcome and help design a solution to reach that outcome.

**APMO - **You will cover a diverse range of activities to support the delivery of our Agile Portfolio. You will build your ability in stakeholder management, organising the priorities and project plans to drive value. This role will equip you with the skills and qualifications to grow in your career in a range of areas.

Throughout your programme you will be fully supported by a dedicated Academy Manager, as well as being mentored by Senior Leaders and previous Together Graduates during the course of the programme.

**What our programme offers you**:

- Exposure to lots of meaningful business projects and departments to give you a rounded understanding of the Financial Services industry and our business (this will depend on the needs of the business at the time);
- Graduate and CSR team projects, giving you the chance to have a real impact on our business and on the wider community;
- Industry recognised qualifications (where applicable) to support you with your career in financial services;
**Our selection process consists of**:

- Application (CV)
- A telephone interview;
- An onsite (Cheadle) assessment centre;

**Qualifications**:
**What we are looking for**:

- An interest and enthusiasm to work in the Financial Services industry;
- Able to commute to Cheadle on a daily basis;
- The drive and passion to succeed in an ambitious business;
- A problem solving approach and a keen desire to lean new tools and technologies;
- You will often present your ideas to the senior management so excellent communication and interpersonal skills and the confidence to engage with senior managers are vital.

Additional Information
**Benefits working at Together**
- 26 days holiday (increasing with service), plus bank holidays
- Buy & sell holidays
- Discretionary annual bonus
- Matched pension contribution
- Life assurance
- Critical illness cover
- Health cash plan
- Private medical insurance
- Free access to company holiday homes
- Travel season ticket loans
- Ride to work scheme
- Free local gym access
- Local bar / restaurant discounts

**Ambition is in our nature and we’ve created ambitious commitments to make sure we can play our part in protecting the future for generations to come. Check out our Sustainability page to find out more**:
Together Money embraces diversity and inclusion, and are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. Not only do we welcome difference - we celebrate it, support it and really value our colleagues for who they are. We are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives and skills.

**_ Please note that all successful applicants wi