Digital Software Graduate Programme

Company Description

About us

We believe in the power of ingenuity to build a positive human future.

As strategies, technologies, and innovation collide, we create opportunity from complexity.

Our diverse teams of experts combine innovative thinking and breakthrough technologies to progress further, faster. Our clients adapt and transform, and together we achieve enduring results.

We are over 4,000 strategists, innovators, designers, consultants, digital experts, scientists, engineers, and technologists. And we have deep expertise in consumer and manufacturing, defence and security, energy and utilities, financial services, government and public services, health and life sciences, and transport.

Our teams operate globally from offices across the UK, Ireland, US, Nordics, and Netherlands. 

PA. Bringing Ingenuity to Life.

Job Description

Flexible working - We are guided by our client work and needs; however, you have autonomy to manage your time and diary to suit your work/life balance.

Power Your Curiosity at PA

Digital isn’t just about fast-changing technology opening new possibilities, and the door to new competitors, it’s about the consideration of people, process and technology as one. It’s essential to compete and keep performance high today while adapting to stay relevant tomorrow. Cracking the challenge means harnessing digital to bring ingenuity to life. Our Digital scheme will get you stuck into delivering some of the most advance solutions for clients. 

We will provide you with a variety of skills and experiences which will form the foundations of your consulting career. You will be enrolled onto our Graduate Development Scheme. including access to mentoring; and at the end of the scheme, you will be eligible for promotion to our Consultant Analyst rank. 

Your role in Digital Software

Joining us as a Digital Graduate, you will work on an assortment of exciting projects providing innovative software solutions to our clients' most critical business issues. We'll look to you to provide high-level technical designs and to develop software in collaboration with business analysts and software architects. You will also work closely with test and DevOps specialists as well as service managers on automated software releases to production. 

As your career progresses, you can expect to work across all areas of the development lifecycle, from strategy to implementation, and to take on assignments in different sectors. You will develop skills in a wide range of technologies, and also benefit from the excellent training opportunities that PA offers. This will provide you with broad base of experience from which to build an outstanding career.

PA is what you make of it — so power your curiosity and prepare to make an impact.

About You

We’re looking for graduates who are:  

• Adaptable and able flex their style and thinking
• Collaborative and work at their best in dynamic teams
• Curious and want to broaden their understanding of the world
• Credible and comfortable working with clients in high performance environments
• Driven to succeed — and help others achieve the same
• Open to change and have a growth mindset
• Relationship builders — with both clients and peers
• Hungry for new challenges
• Have an enquiring mind, with the capability for innovative and analytical thinking 

#LI-HM4 

Qualifications

• An undergraduate degree in a relevant degree
• Ideally you will have some programming skills – preferred languages are Java, C#, JavaScript 
• Good grasp of relational or non-relational databases 

The Offer

• You will work to ensure our clients stay informed about threats and are able to protect their digital assets and business systems
• Opportunity to work across all areas of the information security spectrum, from developing cyber security strategy to implementation of risk reducing security controls and technologies
• You will be exposed to a variety of experiences which will build an outstanding career
• A wide range of internal and external training programmes
• We work flexibly at PA, but your work base will be our London Farringdon office.
• Salary potential: £36,000
• This role will start in Autumn 2025 

Additional Information

Life At PA encompasses our peoples' experience at PA. It's about how we enrich peoples’ working lives by giving them access to unique people and growth opportunities and purpose led meaningful work.

We believe diversity fuels ingenuity. Diversity of thought brings exciting perspectives; diversity of experience brings a wealth of knowledge, and diversity of skills brings the tools we need. When we bring people together with diverse backgrounds, identities, and minds, embracing that difference through an inclusive culture where our people thrive; we unleash the power of diversity – bringing ingenuity to life.

Find out more about Life at PA here.

We are dedicated to supporting the physical, emotional, social and financial well-being of our people. Check out some of our extensive benefits:

• Health and lifestyle perks accompanying private healthcare for you and your family
• 25 days annual leave (plus a bonus half day on Christmas Eve) with the opportunity to buy 5 additional days
• Generous company pension scheme
• Opportunity to get involved with community and charity-based initiatives
• Annual performance-based bonus
• PA share ownership
• Tax efficient benefits (cycle to work, give as you earn)

We recruit, retain, reward and develop our people based solely on their abilities and contributions and without reference to their age, background, disability, genetic information, parental or family status, religion or belief, race, ethnicity, nationality, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity (or expression), political belief veteran status, or other by any other range of human difference brought about by identity and experience. We are on a journey towards ensuring our workforce is diverse at all levels and that our firm is representative of the world around us. We welcome applications from underrepresented groups.

Adjustments or accommodations - Should you need any adjustments or accommodations to the recruitment process, at either application or interview, please contact us on [email protected].