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Our programmes
Digital Futures provides you with a unique opportunity to train, not just for a job, but for your entire career. Our training equips you with all the skills you need for an incredible future in software, data, or cloud.
“Training at Digital Futures has been a unique and fun experience. I was challenged, working on different projects every week, but a hands-on approach meant I was able to learn a great deal. A huge thanks to the Digital Futures team for the support they provided.”
Samir Rai, Data Specialist
Your journey with Digital Futures
You will complete 12-weeks of immersive training, preparing you to take your industry certification before starting your career as a Digital Futures engineer.
Training
Technical skills: Alongside preparing you to pass your pathway’s industry certification, our 12-weeks of technical skills training will take you through the critical technologies, frameworks, and skills that you’ll need to start your industry placement and set up your career in tech.
Professional skills: We place an equal emphasis on your professional skills training. Our professional skills curriculum runs in tandem with our technical skills training to ensure that you are able to effectively apply your skills in a professional environment and are confident when you start your industry placement.
Graduation
To successfully graduate from the Academy, you will need to:
- Complete all of the projects and challenges for your pathway
- Pass your industry certification
- Complete a competency interview with a member of the Digital Futures team
Once you have graduated, you will be made available for an industry placement. To secure your placement, you will need to successfully pass an interview with one of our clients. You will be supported throughout this entire process by our Engagement Management Team, who will provide extra skills sessions and interview support.
Employment
Once your placement is secured, you will be offered a full-time employment contract with Digital Futures for two years. Throughout this time, you will be working at one of the world’s leading companies, applying your skills to exciting, innovative, and impactful projects. You could be working in exciting areas such as ESG, digital transformation, big data and more.
Throughout your industry placement, you will be supported by a dedicated Digital Futures engagement manager. They will be a trusted point of contact for you, focused on empowering and supporting you as you embark on the start of your career in technology.
Progression
Throughout your time with Digital Futures, there will be amazing opportunities for your progression. Your engagement manager will manage your progression as you grow in confidence and build your resilience as a Digital Futures engineer.
As part of the Digital Futures engagement management framework, you will have weekly team check-ins with all the Digital Futures engineers placed at the same organisation, regular performance reviews and ongoing one-to-one meetings with your engagement manager. We will continuously invest in your skills, ensuring that your development is aligned to your career goals.
Explore our learning pathways
Explore our immersive training in Software Engineering, Data Analytics or Data Engineering
Software Engineering
Software engineering is about more than just code. To help solve real-world business problems for our industry partners, Digital Futures software engineers examine and determine users' needs, develop, design, build and test end-user software.
Data Analytics
Data analytics involves gathering, analysing and interpreting large amounts of data. Using your technical, analytical and communication skills, you will make data accessible and identify key patterns to help optimize business processes.
Data Engineering
Data engineering involves designing and building systems for collecting, storing and analysing data at scale. Digital Futures data engineers bring together software, cloud and data skills to construct data infrastructure for our clients.
How to apply
From application, through to assessment and interview, we are with you every step of the way
Application
Our application process is straightforward, accessible and open to everyone. There are no pre-requisites to join the Academy - it doesn't matter what your background is, what or where you studied or how much experience you have.
Assessment
You will be invited to complete your assessment via our bespoke online learning platform, Skills. You will be assessed for your unique traits, strengths and aptitude in a series of written, numerical and technical challenges.
Screening Interview
If you are successful in our online assessment, you will be invited to interview with a member of the Digital Futures team. This interview is personal and designed to be a two-way conversation so that you get to know us, and we get to know you.
Final Interview
In the final stage, you will be invited to complete a final interview with the lead instructor from your chosen pathway. You will be expected to demonstrate a clear understanding of the concepts covered in the technical assessment.
Offer
If you are successful, you will receive a phone call from our Admissions Team offering you a place in our Academy. You will then receive an offer letter and a contract outlining the key terms of your training period.
Onboarding
Once you have accepted your place, you will receive a welcome pack and gain access to our bespoke training platform, our communications platform, and extra learning resources to help you prepare for the Digital Futures Academy.
My time here at Digital Futures has been a phenomenal journey. The Academy instructors delivered a thorough and comprehensive course that has prepared me well for the challenges of industry. The Engagement team has provided me with support along every step of the way.
The programme helped me bridge the gap between university and the workplace. I now feel confident using my technical and professional skills, as I work on real-world projects with Digital Futures’ clients.
I joined Digital Futures with little knowledge of the cloud and how it works. In just 12 weeks, under the helpful guidance of my instructor, I passed both the AWS Cloud Practitioner and Solutions Architect Associate exams and gained invaluable hands-on experience navigating the AWS platform and solving problems, which allowed me to earn a work placement at one of the most well-known media and telecoms companies.
My background isn't in coding, so the inclusive nature of the programme was important to me. We all started at different levels and the programme accommodates that nicely. I'm really excited to be starting as a Digital Futures software engineer.
I'm thrilled to be working with one of the UK's leading retail banks, for Digital Futures. The opportunity to work with big-name clients, that might not necessarily have given me a chance on my own, is what makes Digital Futures so exciting.
It’s great to work with other people – I really like the team and the cohort I’m in. Everyone comes from different backgrounds and they are all fantastic people. We also have the freedom to explore concepts and techniques on our own.
Digital Futures has given me a broader understanding of data science, business acumen, best practices, and most of all, a learning environment where I have grown tremendously and made countless friends.
The 12-week programme with Digital Futures has been an incredible experience. Our technical lead, Ryan, has been so supportive and friendly from day one; questions are encouraged and there is plenty of hands-on practical and group work. The cohort members are all from a non-tech background, so you're all really learning together.
I joined Digital Futures because I enjoy coding and technology. I'm passionate about software development and Digital Futures has allowed me the opportunity to pursue my dream. The projects I am working on allow me solve problems and deliver on project goals.