What will you be doing?

You will be taking part in a number of placements within the department as a development opportunity. Supported by an experienced mentor, the successful candidate will benefit from having the chance to share know-how, join dynamic teams to tackle exciting and varied projects and to build a network of contacts within the IT department based at Farnborough. 

• Support to IT and business teams.
• Support to the EMEA Spoke based in the UK.
• Develop robots / artifacts based on common BMW Group development standards.
• Robot scheduling and monitoring.
• RPA Licenses, VMs, Identities. Access Management. Security setup and maintenance.
• Support the co-coordination of IT Response to general business demand from the NSC supporting IT DevOps Managers within their domains and providing IT contact for cross domain or ambiguous topics.
• Provide IT Systems Analysts for initiatives, including planning support, managing workshops, documenting business requirements, documenting Systems (functional) requirements.
• Plan, script and undertake systems testing, co-ordinate UAT and support Deployment.
• Support all requests from business for changes to improve and automate business processes in UK market and markets in area of responsibility.  Support a wide range of business types and process complexities.
• Act as an interface to DevOps groups and application specialists.  Understand the business and application landscape so that implementations are managed in a changing environment.
• Interface to external providers for DevOps activities and RPA creation, development and support.
• Convince stakeholders (business and IT) of the benefits of following Group standard methodology (e.g. prioritization, using IT standards, creating of ROI, Agile, operations standards).
• Able to work in an emerging technology which requires individuals with open mind to technology and the changing environment.
• Demonstrate agility in an ever-changing IT landscape.

Qualifications

• Studying a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Development or Data Science (or related discipline) and predicted to graduate with a 2:2 or higher.
• Interest in the Automotive and Financial Services area.
• Strong IT skills, including MS office and understanding of AGILE, software development languages, cloud services, RPA.
• Have the ability to communicate clearly and simply about the world of IT to our business partners.
• Self-organised, self-motivated and tenacious to drive projects to a successful conclusion.
• Comes with a can-do attitude and not afraid to learn, develop and grow with the role and the department.

Did you know…

Farnborough is home to our BMW, BMW Motorrad, MINI, ALPHERA and Alphabet National Sales Centres. We’re proud of our office environment and achievements. We offer a modern way of working with an empowering office culture, some aspects of which include:

• Our work persona shift – being yourself is effortless and so increases efficiency and reduces wasted energy. For this reason we allow our employees to express themselves through the way they dress.
• Flexible working hours - working flexibly improves mental perspective and increases sustained productivity. This means our leaders maintain balance, not burnout, through focusing on output, not attendance.
• The opportunity to get involved with our continued support to our house charity with a variety of fundraising events throughout the year.
• Throughout our offices there are open creative spaces which hold facilities such as table-tennis tables to encourage innovation and employee engagement.

Why choose us?

• Great Pay â€“ a competitive annual salary of Â£18,500, 27 days’ holiday (pro rata to your contract) and a pension scheme.
• Rewarding Work-Life Balance â€“ contracted working hours are 37.5 hours a week, helping you develop a fulfilling work-life balance.
• Exciting Additional Benefits - throughout your placement you will be supported by our experts and have the opportunity to enjoy other employee benefits.

What do you need to do now?

If this sounds like the opportunity for you then apply today using the link below.

The next stages of the recruiting process could include: online testing, video interview and then a face-to-face, telephone or virtual interview with the hiring manager. This may be in the form of an assessment centre.