IT Consultant Level 6 Degree Apprenticeship

£23,000 plus a £3000 joining bonus.

4 years

Stevenage

Cranfield MK:

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Due to the need to attend your MBDA site and the training provider as required for your apprenticeship, applicants need to ensure their home or rental location is appropriate, travel arrangements are manageable and travel time is minimised as required for your role.

You’ll complete a Digital and Technology Solutions apprenticeship with IT Consultant pathway. Your final award will be a BSc (Hons) in Digital and Technology Solutions.

Find out more details on the course here:

British Citizen or a Dual UK national with British citizenship.

Restrictions and/or limitations relating to nationality and/or rights to work may apply. As a minimum and after offer stage, all successful candidates will need to undergo HMG Basic Personnel Security Standard checks (BPSS), which are managed by the MBDA Personnel Security Team.

This role is scheduled to close for applications at midnight on Friday 22nd January 2027 but may close earlier depending on application volumes.

• Fully funded qualification starting September 2027
• Paid travel expenses to and from your place of study
• Annual pay reviews
• Healthcare Cash Plan:provides support with everyday health related costs – including medical, dental, optical, physio and health & wellbeing.
• 25 days annual leave (plus holiday purchase) and up to 15 days flexi leave
• Study leave during exam periods

Start your career in the digital world by designing, delivering, supporting, maintaining and protecting the digital technology and solutions for the MBDA ecosystem. We are evolving the way our products and services are designed and delivered to our customers, and we need you to help us!

Our solutions are developed and deployed in accordance with the international group business needs, our product partnership initiatives and the national security standards. We need individuals who want to develop their skills across the whole digital information systems and information technology enterprise as well as building a specialism in one of our delivery and operational domains.

This programme is a fantastic opportunity for you to join a growing digital systems team and gain hands on experience within the information technology and information systems sector with a major defence contractor. It will give you experience of projects developing or enhancing business solutions as well an understanding of operational and service delivery. We'll support those with the aptitude and passion for all things technology based and allow hands on experience within Infrastructure, AI, Cloud and Application environments.

Solution delivery at MBDA is typically a mix of 'waterfall' and 'agile' project methodologies meaning you'll have the opportunity to compare and contrast different styles of solution development and begin to learn how to select the best approach to meet the requirements. Typically you will be involved with and contribute to solution analysis and requirements elicitation; systems and solution design including liaising with technology and service providers;

project/task management including release and test management.

Our operational teams cover everything from user engagement through to cyber security threat protection, detection and recovery. We use ITIL standards for our operational management and comply with standards such as the national government Cyber Security Essentials Plus scheme, ISO
27001, and you will have the opportunity to develop an understanding of and begin to apply those in practise. In this area you would be involved in the…