Technical Graduate Programme

Technology is at the heart of everything we do. It’s why clients choose us, and it offers a wealth of career opportunities to those with the commitment, passion and technical aptitude to succeed in often demanding market sectors. The rewards are well worth it – not least, the chance to learn from some of the best people in our industry as you develop your expertise.

Application Management

We live in a society where highly complex computer systems are common place. It is taken for granted that information can be shared freely across multiple systems and environments to help us with our daily lives. The same is also true for businesses’ need for information to be available when it’s wanted, in the right format. These are the demands placed upon us by our growing portfolio of national, international and multinational clients.

Have you thought about how these systems are developed? Have you considered the complexity of supporting applications that run in complex and ever changing landscapes? It’s largely down to the technical skills, knowledge and excellence of the developers who design, build, test, deliver and support these systems. That’s what the Applications Management group do.

Providing the software that powers these systems and supporting the complex array of applications is the day-to-day job of the over 900 multi-talented people who work in Application Management. We use a huge range of technologies, from Assembler, through 3rd and 4th generation programming languages, to the highly complex customisation and tailoring of third party packages. We also cover many phases of the traditional software development lifecycle, from capturing user requirements right through to end-user acceptance and client support.

A graduate placement into Application Management – which includes a mixture of on the job training, experience and formal training – will give you the knowledge and confidence to work in a fast, ever changing environment. And we have staff based in multiple sites covering much of the United Kingdom, making this an opportunity to work in varied locations with a variety of technologies.

Systems Transformation & Integration

In the world of business, companies often need to go through radical change, either to keep ahead of the competition, to be more responsive to market changes, or due to mergers and acquisitions. These goals can often only be achieved with a corresponding major change or replacement of supporting IT systems. Large-scale IT system transformation may also be triggered by a need to refresh costly, aged and creaking technology.

At CSC, helping some of the largest organisations in the world achieve their objectives is what we do. Using some of the very latest technologies, our engineers design, implement and support these new solutions, providing a great opportunity for you to understand how these companies run their businesses. As part of our team you could find yourself:

• Building, testing or deploying new web applications for some of the country’s leading organisations
• Automating our clients’ business processes with the aid of the world’s most advanced integration technologies
• Ensuring these solutions keep running and performing, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year

To ensure that you can deliver the very best service to our customers, we will provide a comprehensive programme of formal and on-the-job training and mentoring.

With this experience, there are a number of different career paths available. You could choose to become one of our key technical specialists. Alternatively you may prefer to move into areas such as Business Architecture, Enterprise Architecture, IT Service Management or Project Management.

Whichever route you decide to take, you can be assured of a challenging and rewarding career at CSC.

Engineering

The Engineering team are responsible for delivering standardised and leveraged network services across the EMEA region.

Network Services – LAN is responsible for delivering competitive LAN, WLAN, remote access services and firewall operations to the EMEA region. They’re also responsible for the management of all services delivered from the LAN Service Centre, which includes engineering, provisioning, deployment and ongoing operations, as well as the development, planning and execution of the LAN Services strategy.

The Network Service Centre works closely with the Regional and Global Portfolio teams and Supply Chain management to ensure product solutions and services align with client demands.

Network Services also deliver an EMEA-wide TEM service, including ordering and invoicing service management for 3rd party service providers (including BT, Verizon, T-Systems, and C&W), and management of software services from the TEM tool provider. They work closely with the supply chain to identify and manage preferred suppliers and to deploy consistent and repeatable solutions. A potential Graduate will participate in the development, planning and execution of the TEM solutions and strategies, Network Services also cover voice services throughout the UK and EMEA.

Mainframe Service Centre

The Mainframe Service Centre is responsible for ensuring that CSC EMEA provides world-class mainframe services to our clients, and for optimising all our opportunities to leverage the mainframe technology base and cost base across all of the EMEA sub-regions. It also provides Z-Linux platform services.

Midrange Service Centre

The Midrange Service Centre is responsible for the installation and support of UNIX and AS400 servers.

CSC in the UK has over 4000 UNIX servers of every type (SUN Solaris, IBM AIX, HP, HP-UX, Linux, Redhat, etc.) and level of hardware, from 1 CPU standalone servers to high-end, clustered and complex environments.

Wintel Service Centre

CSC in the UK has over 12000 Wintel servers running on multiple hardware vendors and levels of hardware, from 1 CPU standalone servers to high-end, clustered and complex environments. Active directory, Citrix, VMWare, and Microsoft Exchange are a few of the key products we use.

Storage Service Centre

The Storage Service Centre is responsible for the installation and management of storage, including high-end Terabyte network attached storage farms. It’s also responsible for the backup and recovery of data.

Data Centres

CSC including the UK have numerous high-end data centres, providing a high level of server hosting in an ever growing infrastructure.

End User Technology Services (ETS)

ETS is responsible for ensuring that all ETS functions are delivered in a repeatable and cost effective manner across EMEA, ranging from desktop and laptop SOE builds through to desktop application packaging.

Messaging and Collaborative Service Centre

The Messaging and Collaborative Service Centre is responsible for the delivery of all messaging and collaborative services across EMEA, including all Lotus Notes and Microsoft Exchange technologies.

Local Delivery Centres

Local Delivery Centres provide local support at CSC and client sites alike, deploying, installing and repairing desktops. They also provide first touch server services.

Solutions Architecture

Our infrastructure solution architects work within our Global Outsourcing Services group in a client-facing role and within a project environment. Solution architects are responsible for all aspects of the technology infrastructure design. In this role you will capture the client requirements, translate these into technical solutions, and take the infrastructure solution from concept to creation.

You will need to be passionate about technology and be able to provide ingenious, innovative technology solutions, whilst working directly with high profile clients to help deliver their business strategy.

Your first assignment will be delivered as part of a client delivery team, working with the lead architect, project managers and engineering teams, helping to deliver the most appropriate technology for the solution whilst ensuring that the design integrates with existing technology and future client requirements.

The first role you have will be as a Junior Project Architect and will be determined by current projects and the stages that these are currently at. Typically you will be on your first assignment for 6 months before moving onto another diverse project, either with the same client or a different one, which will allow you to gain exposure to other aspects of the work that we do here at CSC.

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