Undergraduate Technology Industrial Placement – 12 Months

Why Work for LexisNexis Risk Solutions
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Global companies and governmental entities rely on us to solve their most complex data challenges. Our employees collaborate to reduce risks and create opportunities for customers in more than 100 countries. We’re adaptable, curious and ambitious. That’s why here, you’ll have the freedom to drive change, the trust to find your own path, and the space to explore more.
Undergraduate Technology Industrial Placement – 12 Months – Cardiff
Application Closing Date: 31st December 2020
Start Date: July 2021
Duration: 12 months
This paid industrial placement is suited to undergraduate students who wish to complete a year in industry (aka sandwich placement) after the second year of their degree and will last for 12 months.
LexisNexis Risk Solutions is excited to be seeking a Software Engineering placement student with foundational knowledge of PHP (or a similar, transferable language) to join our Cardiff based development team for 12 months, starting July 2021.
The goal of the placement is to develop the knowledge and technical skills of the intern so that they are able to contribute to real feature development as part of our agile software development teams. During the placement, they will also gain valuable business insight that will help them develop into a well-rounded development team member.
Opportunities and Responsibilities
* We will help you learn how to use our big data platform – HPCC – through a combination of training courses, self-learning and peer support
* We will introduce you into a development team’s processes and prepare you to become a regular contributor as part of the team delivering exciting features to market
Gradually, with support, you will be…
* Contributing to the design of new features and solutions
* Developing and delivering features across the full stack (including use of modern PHP frameworks, front-end frameworks, HPCC and other tools)
* Contributing to the quality assurance effort, including use of test automation tools (such as Cucumber or Postman) and Continuous Integration tools (such as GitLab)
* Contributing as a member of our cross-functional agile product development teams
* Contributing to our full Software Development Lifecycle from feature conception through to delivery
* Engage with customers to understand their requirements to generate development ideas
* Working closely with the product owner and project management to deliver products and enhancements to market
Requirements
* Passionate collaborator with a focus on what is best for the team
* Enthusiastic and capable technologist, able to demonstrate a broad technical knowledge
* Foundational/basic PHP (or a similar, transferable language) development skills
* Understanding of agile development concepts
* Able to work with relational databases such as MySQL at a basic level (eg query, update and delete data)
* Excellent oral and written communication skills
* Clear focus on the customer, both internal and external
Desirable Skills
* Basic Linux skills via the command line
* An interest in modern software development, such as Containerization and Continuous Delivery
* Participation in the development community
* Experience of PHP frameworks such as Laravel
* Experience of front-end frameworks such as VueJS or React
What’s it like to work here?
Outstanding – you’ve probably already got a feel for what we do and the technology we’re involved with but what’s really stands us out from the crowd is our culture. We’re an agile, dynamic and forward thinking organisation who understands the importance of looking after our staff. We pride ourselves on delivering high-quality products, providing our employees with interesting challenges for their personal and career development whilst also striking the right balance between work and family life.
Women in technology:
LexisNexis® Risk Solutions Group (RSG) is very supportive of women in Technology and has been a founding signature for the Tech Talent Charter. Currently 27% of our Technology workforce are women which is much higher than the UK average of 17%. We have the following initiatives in place to support women in technology:
* Mentoring scheme for women in technology
* Women’s network forum
* Regularly run events for schools girl about careers in technology to inspire the next generation of girls in tech.
RSG proudly support the Tech Talent Charter.
About LexisNexis® Risk Solutions Group
LexisNexis® Risk Solutions Group is a portfolio of brands that span multiple industries providing customers with innovative technologies, information-based analytics and decision tools and data services that help businesses and governmental entities reduce risk and improve decisions to benefit people around the globe. Headquartered in metro Atlanta, Georgia, we have offices throughout the world and are part of RELX (LSE: REL/NYSE: RELX), a global provider of information and analytics for professional and business customers across industries.
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