Digital and Technology Graduate Scheme - Aerospace, Defence, Security and Technology

Within Digital Advantage, a sub-practice of ADS&T, AtkinsRéalis has an experienced team of consultants who work with our clients to provide management and technical advice to help them achieve their digital transformation objectives. Our collective skill in supporting our specialised disciplines means we can deliver a holistic ownership in supporting solution design, applying best practice and appropriate frameworks to meet their requirements. Our success lies in a cohesive appetite for integration; working to define and align effective and evidenced based, business, technology, digital strategy, and transformation. We are diverse in our thoughts and challenge the status quo to truly understand the root of problems, utilising a range of techniques to support and guide clients to better understand their business, as well as work with them to advise and lead the business’ transformation to realise the benefit of digital.

As a Digital Consultant within Digital Advantage, you will work on a variety of projects and roles across the breadth of our Markets, from business analysis to digital experience, digital strategy, and enterprise architecture, amongst many more. You will solve genuine business problems, applying a human touch, and utilising modern technology to solve some of society’s most challenging problems.

As part of our commitment to your holistic growth, we will develop your soft skills to operate as an effective consultant. Emphasising the importance of people and stakeholders, we will empower you to place them at the heart of your approach. Moreover, we will actively support the evolution of your digital specialisms, allowing you to apply your expertise to solve real-world problems, making a significant impact on your clients. Our consultants also help develop and grow our business. Through contributing to bids, developing new business propositions, and/or researching potential new markets.

Our graduate programme offers an enriching 24-month journey, where you will embark on a series of rotations and alternative opportunities that will be transformative to your career. Throughout each opportunity, you will immerse yourself in diverse areas of Digital Advantage, acquiring invaluable insights and hands-on experience. This approach is designed to broaden your possibilities, empowering you to become a versatile and skilled Digital Consultant.

We operate as T-shaped consultants meaning that primarily all members of the Digital Advantage team, regardless of specialty, are wide-breadth consultants with people and stakeholder skills at the core. All Digital Advantage consultants will then have specific specialisms in Data, Security, Applications, Cyber and in this instance, Business Analysis and IT Architecture skills and experience.

Over the course of the Programme, you will benefit from dedicated training and development opportunities throughout your scheme. You will obtain techniques, methodologies, and frameworks to support you in your role as you develop your career path such as:

• Digital Consultant: Collaborate with clients to conceive, design, and execute business solutions that align with the demands of the new digital world. Transform clients’ businesses across people, processes, and technology. Address technology challenges using market-leading digital and emerging technologies.
• Designing Tomorrow’s Technology: Design, plan, implement, and govern enterprise information technology and digital architecture using industry frameworks and become a certified Enterprise Architect.
• Project Management: Become familiar with projects and how they are developed, certify in APM Fundamentals with an opportunity to develop your skills beyond a foundation level.
• Business Analysis: Identify business needs and determine solutions to help organisations adapt in a digital age. User Experience, Agile Thinking, Requirements Engineering, Stakeholder Analysis, Business Process Modelling and why not become certified with a Business Analysis Diploma.
• Service Architecture: Design and build end-to-end lifecycle strategies for our client’s Services and Offerings. Become certified using a portfolio of industry certified frameworks.
• Chartership: The Digital Consultancy Graduate Programme sets the foundations for the BCS Chartered IT Professional (CITP) qualification.

What we are looking for:

We are seeking individuals who have a genuine passion for making a difference through digitalisation and its potential to drive meaningful insights and solutions. A strong curiosity and enthusiasm for exploring innovative and new ideas through the implementation of digital is essential.

A technology evangelist, a problem solver, an innovator, someone who has:

• An interest in digital trends, tools, and technologies (such as Process Automation and Business intelligence).
• A high-level of self-motivation, self-initiation, organisation, enthusiasm, and commitment.
• Consulting aptitude, knowledge of a variety of techniques and methods to capture, elaborate and demonstrate an understanding of the client’s challenges.
• Evidence of structured thinking, effective report writing and presentations, strong relationship management skills.
• Motivated to drive the design and delivery of solutions that realise positive outcomes for our client’s needs, proven analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills with the ability to influence effectively across multiple media.
• Personable team player, confident to seek guidance where necessary but equally to work independently, adding expertise and value to projects in line with AtkinsRéalis’ ethics, values and business aims.
• A willingness to negotiate and to influence decisions, and to formulate positive relationships with our clients and peers.

The definition of a solution varies; this is the challenge of working as a Consultant in some of the most dynamic, rapidly changing industries in the UK.

As a Solution Architect working in the Technology Solutions Team, you will be responsible for identifying and capturing requirements, building models and design artifacts, defining technology architectures, and authoring sometimes complex solutions to meet client business and technology objectives. You will be responsible for ensuring that these solutions and designs are efficient, flexible, sustainable, fit-for-purpose and meet our clients needs today, and into the future. You will have a very clear understanding of one or more leading technologies, an eye for detail, and an unwavering desire to achieve positive results for our clients.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Building strong, supportive relationships with your clients. dentifying, capturing, and analysing requirements, opportunities, and risks.
• Balancing technological and business solutions to address client needs.
• Developing models, proposals, designs, solutions and plans in line with business strategies and appropriate frameworks.
• Driving through customer strategies in often complex, mixed technology environments.
• Defining features, requirements, and development phases against which delivery must be made.
• Working within established parameters, and in line with a range of project management methodologies.

You’ll be joining our Technology Solutions practice, which supports clients with the delivery of digital and technology-based solutions. Our UX Team compromises Designers and Researchers that put the User/Customer at the heart of solution development, advocating that technology should be built based upon what people need to achieve with it. Working as a Graduate UX Consultant, you’ll conduct User Research and UX/UI Design activities working in AtkinsRéalis teams alongside our Business Analysts, Software Developers and others to craft and deliver modern, intuitive solutions.

Your role:

• As a Graduate UX Consultant, you’ll play a vital role in shaping our client’s technology products and solutions, by:
• Building strong, supportive relationships with our clients and their customers and end-users.
• Being a user-centric advocate: understanding what humans need to do and ensuring technology is built around ‘what the person needs to do, rather than the system.
• Identifying and eliciting requirements and User Needs by researching, interview and facilitating workshops with Users and Stakeholders.
• Producing high quality User Research/UX deliverables including: Personas, Journey Maps, Service Blueprints.
• Contributing to Product Roadmaps and prioritisation sessions, advocating for Business and User Needs.
• Translating User Stories and Requirements into functional specifications and feature designs, including creating wireframes and interactive prototypes.

What we’re looking for:

• Degree relevant to UX, UI or User Research or relevant industry/training experience (this could be Computer Science, UX Design, Graphic Design, Ergonomics, Psychology, a UX/UI Bootcamp or many more).
• A passion for problem solving, analysis and conducting research.
• An effective communicator and active listener, able to get to the root of a problem.
• A holistic thinker, that can think around a problem and ideate different ways it could be solved.
• Knowledge of UX/UCD principles and ideally a portfolio or case studies from relevant experience that demonstrate user-friendly, ergonomic interface designs.