Power Platforms Software Development Graduate
How long: 1 year
Where: London/Hybrid
Up to 50% of time can be spent working from home over a 4-week period. Hybrid working arrangements may alter subject to business requirements.
Salary: £31,000
What you'll need
A minimum of 2:2 in a computing related degree, including Computer Science, Computing, Computer Games Programming, Software Engineering, Web Development, Web Technologies.
What will you be doing?
As a graduate, this one-year development programme will consist of initial training followed by two placement rotations. Our aim is to equip you with the range of skills and experience you need for your successful career. We also understand that everyone's career is different, so every graduate's journey is unique. Here's an idea of what yours could look like;
Power Platforms Software Development
Initial training - 1 month
You meet fellow graduates and apprentices who are starting their software development scheme at the same time as you. Over four weeks you are introduced to the fundamentals power apps, workflows, azure functions, service bus/ queues. This informal training is led by current developers from our teams and equips with you the knowledge and confidence to start your first placement.
Placement 1 - Power app development - 5 Months
Working in a team, under the guidance of an experienced developer, you develop bespoke power apps applications this includes refine/estimate user stories, test functionality, release application. Being part of agile team will give exposure to Agile ways of working while mastering your skills on power platform, Dataverse, Azure components (azure functions, buses/queues), CI/CD.
Placement 2 - Customer relationship management (CRM) - 6 Months
Working in a team, under the guidance of an experienced developer you will be working on MS Dynamics 365 CRM. Customer relationship management (CRM) is a set of integrated, data-driven software solutions that help manage, track, and store information related to your company's current and potential customers. By keeping this information in a centralised system, business teams have access to the insights they need, the moment they need them. You will also be involved in environment setup, configurations, Customisations, integrations, and deployments of the CRM solutions. You will use azure DevOps as source control and deployment pipelines.
During the scheme, we encourage you to become a TfL STEM Ambassador and help with our schools' outreach programme which delivers engaging and interactive workshops to primary and secondary schools on topics such as coding & big data.
Your first placement will be fixed, and your following placements will usually be mutually agreed to ensure you gain experience with the widest possible range of technologies, tools and teams.
Where can this career take you?
Upon completing the scheme, we would expect you to roll-off into a Junior Software Developer position, responsible for delivering software stories within a Scrum team, which meet business requirements, are fully tested and meet our standards for code quality.
Within five years, you could expect to be a Lead Developer, accountable for a team's software design and implementation, or a Software Development Manager, accountable for delivery teams, strategic architecture decisions and budgeting multi-million-pound projects.