Software Integration Apprentice
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Company: SPIRAX-SARCO LIMITED
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Location: Cheltenham, GL51 9NQ
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Type: Apprenticeship
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Salary: £25,000.00 per year
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Sector: Digital
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Ref: NAS-2000017338
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Application Deadline Date: 09/04/2026
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Start Date: 16/04/2026
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Positions Available: 1
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Working Week: Days and shifts to be confirmed.
Brief Description
This is a unique opportunity to gain hands-on experience in enterprise integration, data analytics and software design. Working alongside experienced professionals to support the design, development, testing, and monitoring of integration solutions across our platforms.
Training to be Provided
Why choose our Software Engineer Level 4 apprenticeship?
Our Software Engineer Level 4 Apprenticeship gives learners advance skills and technical grounding to design, test and maintain software and web systems. Learners will also gain an understanding on advanced programming, systems and software development projects. Software Development is at the heart of digital transformation. With demand for services to be consumed online by both clients and employees increasing exponentially, software developers are in high demand. Software Engineers build and test high-quality code across front end, logic and database layers.
QA’s Software Engineer Level 4 apprenticeship programme enables the apprentice to:
- Build advanced skills and technical grounding to design, test and maintain software and web systems.
- Receive training on end-to-end software dev stack, as opposed to hyper-focusing on one area of development.
- Develop more advanced applications.
Tools and technologies learned: Learners will learn to use HTML5, JavaScript and CSS3.
Future Prospects
90% of QA apprentices secure permanent employment after completing: this is 20% higher than the national average.
Vacancy Detail
- Build and maintain integrations using Azure Integration Services and Talend/Qlik tools.
- Assist with data flows, mappings, and API lifecycle support.
- Support event-driven integration and ETL/ELT pipelines.
- Contribute to DevOps, testing, observability.
- Document technical processes and contribute to continuous improvement initiatives.
- Support integration testing using JavaScript, SQL, and other scripting tools.
- Maintain and query relational databases, ensuring data integrity and performance.
- Use Excel for data manipulation, mapping, and problem solving.
- Using workflows to support file transfer and integration.
- Collaborate with business stakeholders to understand requirements.
- Participate in agile ceremonies and contribute to sprint planning and retrospectives.
Other Information
Entry requirements:
- The learner must have completed a Level 3 Software Development Apprenticeship with QA or have an equivalent qualification with another training provider
- OR an A-level in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) subject and a successful completion of our aptitude test
- OR a BTEC Diploma in IT and a successful completion of our aptitude test
- OR 2 years’ experience in a relevant role and successful completion of our aptitude test
You may also have a combination of qualifications and experience which demonstrate the minimum foundation needed for the programme. In this instance you could still be considered for the programme.
If you hold international equivalents of the above qualifications, at the time of your application you must be able to provide an official document that states how your international qualifications compare to the UK qualifications.
For more information please visit the UK ENIC website.