We are currently hiring Software Engineers, Data Specialists
and Cloud Engineers in London and Scotland
Digital Futures - Removing Barriers
We are a purpose-led technology training and services company. Our mission is to transform the lives of others, helping individuals from all backgrounds acquire the necessary skills and confidence to start their career in technology.
By focusing on potential, rather than background or experience, we unlock exceptional talent and help people thrive in diverse and high-performing teams.
If you have the right mindset and drive, we will help you reach your career goals, preparing you to become a leader of tomorrow.
It doesn’t matter where you’re from, if you attended university or whether you have experience in technology. We actively encourage applications from individuals from non-traditional backgrounds if:
Please only apply if you are available to start training on 9th January 2023 and can commute or relocate to London or Scotland (Glasgow, Edinburgh or Livingston).
From application through to employment, we are with you every step of the way
You apply
Our application process is straightforward, accessible and open to everyone. It doesn't matter what your background is, what or where you studied or how much experience you have.
You are assessed
If you have the right to work in the UK you will be assessed for your unique traits, strengths, and cognitive capability and your aptitude for your chosen pathway in a two-stage online assessment.
You are interviewed
You will be interviewed by a member of the Digital Futures team. Our interview process is personal and designed to be a two-way conversation so that you get to know us and we get to know you.
You are offered a place
A member of our team will call you, offering you a conditional place pending your completion of the pre-work. You will then receive an offer letter and a contract outlining the key terms of your training period.
You complete pre-work
As part of your preparation to join the Academy, you will need to complete 10-20 hours of foundational pre-work in your chosen pathway and have a 15 minute call with your lead instructor.
You get trained
Your experience with us starts with 12 weeks of free immersive training, providing you with the essential technical and professional skills you need to start a successful career in software, cloud or data.
You get certified
Throughout the Academy, you will work towards achieving recognised industry certifications in your chosen pathway to support you in your career, before you start your employment with Digital Futures.
You start your career
You will start your employment with Digital Futures working with one of our clients, while receiving continuous support, mentoring and training from our engagement management team.
Join us at our workshops – sign up now to secure your place.
Meet the Digital Futures team and current engineers as we walk you through your journey with Digital Futures. Experience a typical day of a Digital Futures software engineer, data specialist, or cloud engineer.
Introduction to Digital Futures
Wednesday 16 November or
Wednesday 23 November 2022, 6:30–7:30pm
Software Engineering Taster Session
Monday 28 November 2022, 6:30–7:30pm
Data Taster Session
Wednesday 30 November 2022, 6:30–7:30pm
Cloud Engineering Taster Session
Thursday 1 December 2022, 6:30–7:30pm
Explore our immersive training in Software Engineering, Data or Cloud Engineering
Software engineering is about more than just code. To help solve real-world business problems for our clients, Digital Futures software engineers examine and determine users' needs, develop, design, build and test end-user software.
Working with data is where state-of-the-art technology meets business decision-making. Digital Futures data specialists combine both the mathematical and the business significance of data when solving practical problems for our clients.
Cloud is the foundation for the profound transformation in how businesses operate, compete, and create value for all their stakeholders. Our cloud programme provides the opportunity to become a certified Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud engineer.
Software Engineering
Software development & dev-ops: employ test driven development and CI/CD on projects and will actively seek ways to ensure quality.
Services & APIs: work with your peer group to produce reusable, packaged and documented work.
Software & architecture design: understand the strengths and limitations of different platforms and designs, and pick designs that work for the business.
Application & web development: work comfortably with a wide variety of front-end software stacks, and apply solid design and security principles.
Security & data management: view data as an important asset for our client organisations, and work to protect and to monetise that asset accordingly.
Professional skills & leadership development: develop good presenting and consulting skills, communication, listening, feedback, collaboration, emotional intelligence, mental health and wellbeing, behaviours and attitudes.
Our immersive training develops the level of technical competency and interpersonal skills required to work within high-performing teams.
Real-world training: simulates a professional team environment, building to requirements to solve business problems.
Co-development: pair programming from the first day of training with peer-to-peer learning throughout the course.
Team challenges: continuous teamwork with focused projects to help develop strong technical and collaboration skills.
Self-directed learning: empowers engineers to rapidly learn during immersive training and throughout industry deployment.
Leadership coaching: focused on the development of enterprise, communication and management skills.
Following your immersive training period, you will complete your industry-recognised Oracle Certified Associate (OCA) Java SE 8 Programmer Certification.
The Java SE 8 Oracle Certified Associate (OCA) certification helps you build a foundational understanding of Java. Gaining this certification credential is essential in demonstrating you have the high-level skills and competency needed to become a professional software engineer.
This certification will be required for you to successfully graduate from the Digital Futures Software Engineering Academy programme and to become an employee of Digital Futures, joining our supportive community of technology professionals and leading on to your industry deployment with one of our industry partners.
Data
Data analytics: gathering, transforming and interpreting data to build a narrative to support business decision making.
Modelling: applying both supervised and unsupervised techniques to build robust, ethically-minded, high performant models.
Natural language processing: work confidently with unstructured text data and perform text analytics to solve business challenges.
Big data: utilise industry standard, distributed computing frameworks to create pipelines to ingest and process large-scale datasets.
Professional skills & leadership development: develop good presenting and consulting skills, communication, listening, feedback, collaboration, emotional intelligence, mental health and wellbeing, behaviours and attitudes.
Our immersive training develops the level of technical competency and interpersonal skills required to work within high-performing teams.
Real-world training: simulates a professional team environment, building to requirements to solve business problems.
Co-development: pair programming from the first day of training with peer-to-peer learning throughout the course.
Team challenges: continuous teamwork with focused projects to help develop strong technical and collaboration skills.
Self-directed learning: empowers you to rapidly learn during 12-week immersive training and throughout your 1–2 year industry deployment.
Leadership coaching: focused on the development of enterprise, communication and management skills.
Following your immersive training period, you will complete your industry-recognised PCAP – Certified Associate in Python Programming certification from the Python Institute.
The PCAP certification is a professional credential that measures your ability to accomplish coding tasks related to the basics of programming in the Python language and the fundamental notions and techniques used in object-oriented programming. Becoming PCAP certified ensures you have the skills and competency needed to become a professional data specialist.
This certification will be required for you to successfully graduate from the Digital Futures Academy Data programme and to become an employee of Digital Futures, joining our supportive community of technology professionals and leading on to your industry deployment with one of our clients.
You may also have the opportunity to complete the AWS Cloud Foundations or the Tableau Associate Professional certifications.
Cloud Engineering
AWS Cloud Practitioner: understand the Cloud Foundations as you start work on your cloud learning essentials such as Python, Infrastructure-as-Code and DevOps, alongside the introduction to the AWS Cloud.
AWS Solutions Architect Associate: develop the skills to design and implement available, cost-efficient, fault-tolerant, and scalable distributed systems on AWS.
AWS SysOps Administrator Associate: focus on day-to-day Cloud operations skills as you work on deploying, managing, and operating workloads on AWS.
AWS Developer Associate: learn to write and deploy cloud-based applications with application-level support skills including DevOps.
Professional skills & leadership development: develop good presenting and consulting skills, communication, listening, feedback, collaboration, emotional intelligence, mental health and wellbeing, behaviours and attitudes.
Our intensive cloud training dives deep into Amazon Web Services (AWS), but also provides foundational Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) skills alongside a wide range of interpersonal lessons to ensure we have well-rounded engineers who are ready for industry.
Real-World Training: hands-on labs and project work provide the experience and skills needed for working in the tech industry.
Collaboration: we work in small teams to simulate real-world projects, so that our Cloud engineers are confident working with others.
Experience: our training is not based on a single curriculum. We’ve included development and infrastructure along with other cloud providers.
Leadership coaching: focused on the development of enterprise, communication and management skills.
The initial 12-week immersive training Academy takes a candidate through the AWS Cloud Practitioner and AWS Solutions Architect Associate (SAA-C03) courses and exams.
These certifications will be required for you to successfully graduate from the Digital Futures Academy Cloud Engineering programme and to become an employee of Digital Futures, joining our supportive community of technology professionals and leading on to your industry deployment with one of our industry partners.
Workshops
Introduction to Digital Futures
Wednesday 16 November 2022, 6:30–7:30 pm
Introduction to Digital Futures
Wednesday 23 November 2022, 6:30–7:30 pm
Software Engineering Taster Session
Monday 28 November 2022, 6:30–7:30 pm
Data Taster Session
Wednesday 30 November 2022, 6:30–7:30 pm
Cloud Engineering Taster Session
Thursday 1 December 2022, 6:30–7:30 pm