Digital Apprenticeship

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Role Sector: IT

Hours Per Week: 35

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Aviva Digital Apprenticeship

This apprenticeship is designed for someone who is excited to get into the world of digital.

As part of our Digital Apprenticeship, you will learn and understand digital insurance offerings and become an expert in an area of digital development. Your role could bring you into contact with the following areas of expertise:

Web developer
Application developer
Mobile app developer
Games developer
Real time systems developer
Software developer

For our 2016 intake we have opportunities to become a Web Developer within our London based Digital Garage and Norwich office for Digital Apprentices.

What is Digital all about?

Think of a workplace 50 or 100 years ago. You might have seen pictures of our ancestors at work. Telephones are the great technological breakthrough. Women – and there are very few of them – are all working as typists. Everywhere you look there are huge cabinets, containing file after file after file of data, accessed by huge systems of index cards.

That’s certainly true of Aviva’s ancestor companies. We spent a huge amount of time and money on collecting and storing data, because we have always been a data driven industry. Using data well means we can assess risk, price and underwrite, and it means we can serve our customers with a fair price based on the data available to us.

But in those dusty offices of the past most of our effort was on just storing and retrieving data. We did not have the wherewithal to maximise its potential. Now we do.

The difference now is the digital revolution and we’ve got to be revolutionaries. We don’t just have the data, we can use technology in far more sophisticated ways to better understand risk and better understand our customers, what they need, and how we can deliver it.

The size of the prize is almost beyond calculation, and those who don’t seize it aren’t going to be in business for very much longer.

Take these statistics: by 2020 each person is going to have around 27 4G and 5G connected devices. By 2030 traffic on UK mobile networks is going to increase by 22 times. We live in a digital age, a digital marketplace, and digital is how our customers want us to serve them.

That’s why one of Aviva’s core strategic goals is to put digital first. It’s why we’re investing to make the most of digital and make the most of data, because it’s what will produce the best returns.

We can use digital data to personalise products and price them more accurately, as we’ve done with our , which allows drivers to test and monitor how safely they drive and make them save money on their car insurance. As a composite insurer we can use data to offer customers products that meet their needs right across insurance and asset management, and provide easy access to them and their policies through our MyAviva app.

That equals good business for us and lower costs as well as simplicity, convenience and quality for our customers.

What will you be doing?

You’ll have a fantastic opportunity not only to build your technical skills, but to consult with a diverse range of stakeholders including developers, digital marketing teams, analytical advisors and customers. You’ll get all the training you need to develop your knowledge of digital products. Together we can decide if you would like to specialise in a specific field later on and as you develop you’ll begin to work on larger, more complex projects

Which professional qualification will you gain?

By completing the Digital Apprenticeship, you will achieve at least one, current, internationally-recognised vendor or professional certification or equivalent, dependent on the role that you will be working within. You will learn more about this throughout the recruitment process.

What are we looking for?

We're looking for a lot more than academics although for level 4 Apprenticeships the minimum criteria is 300UCAS points or the equivalent (excluding General Studies) from relevant subject matters. Confidence and agility are key, as is the determination to develop a long-term career in the digital industry. As you’ll ultimately be helping deliver solutions for customers on a wide range of products you will need to have strong communication, analytical and problem solving skills. You’ll need to be creative too so you can come up with ways to differentiate our products from the rest of the market.

Starting salary: £17,000.