L6 - Digital and Technology Solutions Professional
1. Overview
The Digital and Technology Solutions Professional is an apprenticeship that typically will take 3 years or more to complete. It leads to a BSc Honours degree qualification that is contextualised for workplace occupational competency as a Digital & Technology Solutions Professional who can operate in one of the following roles:
Software Engineer IT Consultant
Business Analyst
Data Analyst
Cyber Security Analyst
Network Engineer
This new route to recruitment of young talent for employers will produce competent technology solutions professionals to complement their graduate recruitment and apprenticeship programmes. This apprenticeship will develop the technical, business, project, interpersonal and behavioural skills and knowledge to operate effectively in the digital economy.
What distinguishes this apprenticeship is the blend of employer defined skills, knowledge and behaviour outcomes that are integrated and assessed as part of the degree. The achievement of the degree ensures that the standard has been met. This is a closed degree for this occupation and the degree also acts as assessment verification that the standard has been met by the apprentice.
The delivery of the apprenticeship by the university provides an integrated approach to developing and assessing skills and knowledge across the range of modules in the degree programme. Each university will develop its own degree programme and will map the individual modules to the outcomes in the standard. Individual modules will contribute formative assessment to the skills, knowledge and behaviour outcomes en-route to the final synoptic project and presentation.
The final synoptic project is a substantial piece of work, typically taking around 6 months to undertake alongside the apprentices normal duties to their employer. The end point assessment integrates the project outcomes and presentation into the overall synoptic project assessment.
It is this end point assessment which will be judged against the standard, and test the skills, knowledge and behaviours together as applied through the project.