A Software Developer Apprentice will gain knowledge and skills such as:

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• Take and interpret given software development requirements to estimate effort to deliver the work product to enable accurate costs to be established.

• Break software development activities down into logical units of work to enable sequencing and ensure the best possible structuring of activities to deliver a high-quality product right first time.

• Report progress accurately throughout the development life-cycle stages to ensure adequate audit trails of key worksteps such that the organisation can demonstrate how the product has been created for quality and commercial purposes.

• Identify and report any impediments to software development activities and propose practical solutions.

• Convert customer requirements into technical requirements, both functional and non-functional to ensure that customers' expectations are accurately reflected in the software products developed.

• Identify and select the most appropriate technical solution, taking into consideration coding best practice and appropriate quality standards.

• Communicate software development solutions to a range of internal or external stakeholders to ensure clear understanding of requirements and how they have been met or adjusted.

• Consider security implications of proposed design to ensure that security considerations are built in from inception and throughout the development process.

• Write logical and maintainable software solutions to meet the design and organisational coding standards (Software Development Lifecycle -Implementation and Build phase).

• Apply security best practice to the software solution throughout the software development life-cycle.

• Create and maintain appropriate project documentation to explain the development process and resources used.

• Apply appropriate recovery techniques to ensure the software solution being developed is not lost (Software Development Lifecycle -Implementation and Build phase).

• Implement appropriate change control to ensure that software development changes may be tracked and quality risks managed.

• Undertake unit testing of solutions, with appropriate levels of test code coverage, to identify and, where necessary, resolve issues (Software Development Lifecycle -Implementation and Build phase).

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