Start your amazing
career in technology
Digital Futures provides individuals from all
backgrounds with a unique opportunity to train, not
just for a job, but for their entire career
Your journey with Digital Futures
You will complete industry-aligned immersive training, preparing you to take your
industry certification before starting your career in tech with Digital Futures.
Training
Technical skills: Alongside preparing you to pass your pathway’s industry certification, our 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.
Duration of immersive training is pathway dependent:
Data Analytics & Data Engineering: 12-weeks
Business Analysis: 8-weeks
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 business analysis, data analytics, and data engineering
Business Analysis
Business analysis involves working with multiple stakeholders to investigate and model business functions, identify problems and new opportunities, and develop effective business solutions through improvements in processes and technology.
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.
Our tech partners
We partner with the world’s leading tech organisations to power the constant development of all of our
learning pathways to ensure we remain at the forefront of technological innovation.
Alongside our partners, we are focused on revolutionising the ever-changing
technological landscape and equipping the newest generation of technologists with the
skills and capability to deliver and unlock the best solutions for our clients.
Our application process
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.
Digital Futures took the initial passion I had for data and tech, grew my ambition to pursue it as a career and then gave me the tools and opportunity to actually do that – I will always be grateful to Digital Futures for that.
I really needed to do the Digital Futures Academy. I needed the training, from technical to professional skills. If I’d gone straight into a corporate job I would have found it so difficult. I’m now a Solution Platform Architect in an ESG team at a global bank.
The important thing for me was just to get my foot in the door and Digital Futures would allow me to do that. I’m so happy to have been placed as a business analyst - the fact that I really understand the technical and architectural side has really set me up well.
The immersive training at Digital Futures have opened opportunities for me. Thanks to the team here at Digital Futures, I felt like I was set up for success and the placement has provided me with a strong network to help me achieve my goals.
The transition from the Academy to the workplace was seamless as I was equipped with the technical and professional skills required. This was the foundation I needed to kickstart my career and I cannot express enough gratitude towards Digital Futures for this opportunity
Digital Futures was my beacon of hope. I loved the company’s mission and the focus on removing barriers. I was looking for someone to be in my corner, to tell me what skills I was lacking and where I needed to improve. Digital Futures invested in me and supported me.
The Academy was intense, yet extremely rewarding. Where Digital Futures excels is how much emphasis has been put in to developing us as professionals and ensuring we were both technically and professionally ready to venture into the workplace.
All the staff at Digital Futures are hugely supportive and I have been incredibly lucky to have started on placement in a really great company within a couple of months of the course finishing. All the hard work, stress, and long hours have really paid off for me.