Apprentice Application Specialist
Company: Atos
Location: Linwood
Salary: £269.23 per week
Working week: 37 hours Monday – Friday
Company Profile:
Atos is an international information technology services company. We’re looking for good all-rounders, with a proactive, flexible approach, and great communication skills. Atos ethos is that business technology powers progress and helps organisations to create their vision of the future. It is the Worldwide Information Technology Partner for the Olympic and Paralympic Games. That’s why we employ 85,000 people in 52 countries, bringing their expertise to clients across the globe. Last year, we hired 110 Apprentices to join Atos teams across the UK. Open, informal and flexible – the communication skills of our business technologists set the tone for our company. We understand that running an effective business takes a human touch.
Job Description
Our Application Specialist apprenticeship is your opportunity to start crafting the future of the digital industry. Liaising with customers and suppliers, you will be supporting development, fixes and enhancements for new and existing applications.
– Providing application support for existing applications and solutions; including troubleshooting, system monitoring and incident resolution.
– Developing and implementing fixes and enhancements to existing applications, using various tools.
– Developing and implementing new applications using various tools.
– Liaising with both customers and suppliers for the resolution of application incidents and problems.
Skills Required:
– Good Analytical and problem solving skills, Ability to analyse problems from multiple angles in a thorough, comprehensive way, with a methodical and logical approach to problem solving
– Good written and verbal communication skills
– Ability to develop good relationships with colleagues and customers and be an excellent team player
– Ability to organise and prioritise work in an effective manner
– A demonstrable interest and enthusiasm for IT, e.g. an awareness of industry knowledge and trends, evidence of IT learning, personal research into IT sector.
Qualifications Required
All our apprentices will need a minimum of five GCSEs at A-C grade – including Maths and English and two A levels for Higher Level schemes. A strong interest in IT is desirable – but we’ll train you in everything you need to know, and you won’t necessarily need to have any technical expertise if you’re looking at one of our more business-oriented roles.
Candidate Question: What has driven you to apply for this role?
Future prospects:
All apprentices are employed on a permanent contract from day one, so your Apprenticeship is just the start of a long term career with Atos. On successful completion of the programme there is likely progression into Support Analyst roles and Application Management.
