Software Development Technician

Our instructor-led training is split into 5 knowledge-based courses that provide a solid foundation to professional coding concepts:

Course 1: The Software Development Environment

This course explores business contexts around coding projects, including different roles, market environments and development methodologies.

Course 2: The Software Development Lifecycle

This course covers the key stages of software development, including testing, configuration management and version control.

Course 3: Software Development Principles

In this hands-on course, apprentices will outline the discovery phase of a development project, exploring how code integrates into the wider project.

Course 4: Implementing Code

Learners will follow industry best practice and explore industry good practice, coding standards, debugging and automation.

Course 5: Coding for Data & Web

This course embeds learner’s understanding of databases, human-computer interaction and security in software development.

Through our specially curated online learning pathways, your apprentice can expand their knowledge of coding languages and paradigms at a time that suits them.

Python Pathway

• Cisco Academy Programming Essentials in Python
• 100 Days of Code: The Complete Python Bootcamp

Web Development Pathway

• The Complete Web Developer Course 2.0
• HTML, CSS, Javascript, PHP, Python and MySQL

SQL Pathway

• SQL Database Bootcamp
• Database design & management

This specialist training goes beyond the knowledge requirements of the apprenticeship standard, helping your apprentice accelerate their learning and add increased value to your team.

Workplace Projects bring an apprentice’s technical training to life, embedding knowledge, skills and behaviours within practical work-based assignments. A Level 3 Software apprentice will complete the following projects:

The Business Environment

Exploring how software developers operate effectively within a business landscape, including Health & Safety, Budgets, Brands and Business Protocols.

Coding Project 1: Logic & Problem Solving

This project focuses on writing simple code to a high standard, testing against project deliverables and solving logical problems with structured methods, tools and techniques.

Coding Project 2: User Interface & Analysis 

This project encompasses all the skills from Project 1, with a focus on developing user interfaces, following basic analysis models, and understanding the software development lifecycle.

Coding Project 3: Data & Security 

This project reinforces the skills from the previous coding projects, and focuses on creating simple connections between code and defined data sources, applying appropriate secure development principles, and applying industry standard approaches for configuration management.

Communication in Software Development

Articulating the function of software components to different stakeholders, across a range of mediums.

These workplace projects form a portfolio of evidence used at the End Point Assessment. Your apprentice will work with our dedicated Baltic Learning Mentors to shape each project to their job role and workplace responsibilities.