NetSuite Junior Developer Apprentice

Summary

You will join our technical delivery team as an apprentice developer, working on real customer solutions from your first month under the supervision of an experienced consultant.

Wage

£15,080 for your first year, then could increase depending on your age

National Minimum Wage rate for apprentices

Salary: £15,080 per annum. This is set at the statutory apprentice National Minimum Wage rate in force from 1 April 2026. Your pay will be increased in line with the statutory age-related rate as soon as you become entitled to it — that is, from the later of your 19th birthday and the completion of the first year of your apprenticeship — and reviewed annually thereafter.

Training course

Digital and technology solutions professional (level 6)

Hours

Hours of work 9.00am - 5.15pm, Monday - Friday, with a one-hour unpaid lunch break. Your college day counts as working time and is paid.

36 hours 15 minutes a week

Start date

Monday 28 September 2026

Duration

4 years

Positions available

1

Work

Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.

What you'll do at work

Year one:

• Learn the NetSuite platform: records, roles and permissions, saved searches, reports and standard financial and operational processes
• Build and test simple customisations - saved searches, workflows, custom fields, forms and dashboards - to a written specification, with your work reviewed before it leaves the team
• Write your first SuiteScript 2.x scripts and SuiteQL queries under supervision
• Pick up and resolve straightforward tickets from our managed services support queue in Jira, keeping worklogs and ticket notes up to date
• Learn our delivery standards: version control, code review, sandbox-first development and the difference between sandbox and production
• Shadow consultants on customer calls to understand how requirements become solutions

Years two and three:

• Develop and unit test SuiteScript 2.x customisations (user event, client, Suitelet, scheduled and map / reduce scripts) against agreed specifications
• Build and maintain Celigo integration flows between NetSuite and third-party applications, including error handling and monitoring
• Use SuiteCloud Development Framework (SDF) to package and deploy changes through our environments
• Write and maintain technical documentation, unit test scripts and deployment notes
• Investigate and fix defects across NetSuite configuration, scripting and integrations, escalating appropriately
• Contribute to estimates and technical design discussions for customer change requests
• Work towards NetSuite certification (SuiteFoundation, then Administrator or SuiteCloud Developer)

Final year:

• Own discrete development workstreams end to end, from specification through build, test and deployment
• Take part in code reviews as a reviewer as well as an author
• Work directly with customers on technical clarifications and demonstrations, supported by your consultant or project manager
• Complete your end-point assessment, including the work-based project, drawing on GLE delivery work agreed in advance with your manager and the college

Essential requirements:

• Demonstrable interest in software development or business systems
• Logical, methodical approach to problem solving, and the persistence to keep going when the first three attempts do not work
• Clear written and spoken English - you will write notes that customers read
• Attention to detail: our work touches customers' financial records, so precision matters more than speed

Desirable requirements:

• Any exposure to programming, particularly JavaScript
• Any exposure to SQL or relational database concepts
• A-level or BTEC Level 3 in Computer Science, IT, Maths or a related subject
• Basic understanding of what an ERP system does, or of business processes such as order to cash or procure to pay
• Experience of any part-time or voluntary work involving customers or the public

Where you'll work

The Maltkiln
Gisburn Road, Barrowford
Nelson
BB9 6AJ

Training

Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.

Training provider

BURNLEY COLLEGE

Training course

Digital and technology solutions professional (level 6)

What you'll learn

• Analyse a business problem to identify the role of digital and technology solutions.
• Identify risks, determine mitigation strategies and opportunities for improvement in a digital and technology solutions project.
• Analyse a business problem in order to specify an appropriate digital and technology solution.
• Initiate, design, code, test and debug a software component for a digital and technology solution.
• Apply relevant standard processes, methods, techniques and tools. For example, ISO Standards, Waterfall, Agile in a digital and technology solution project.
• Manage digital and technology solutions projects. For example, identifying and resolving deviations from specification, applying appropriate Project Management methodologies.
• Work effectively within teams, leading on appropriate digital technology solution activities.
• Apply relevant organisational theories. For example, change management principles, marketing approaches, strategic practice, and IT service management to a digital and technology solutions project.
• Apply relevant security and resilience techniques to a digital and technology solution. For example, risk assessments, mitigation strategies.
• Initiate, design, implement and debug a data product for a digital and technology solution.
• Determine and use appropriate data analysis techniques. For example, Text, Statistical, Diagnostic or Predictive Analysis to assess a digital and technology solutions.
• Plan, design and manage simple computer networks with an overall focus on the services and capabilities that network infrastructure solutions enable in an organisational context.
• Report effectively to colleagues and stakeholders using the appropriate language and style, to meet the needs of the audience concerned.
• Research, investigate, and evaluate innovative technologies or approaches in the development of a digital and technology solution.
• Apply relevant legal, ethical, social and professional standards to a digital and technology solution.
• Identify and define software engineering problems that are non-routine and incompletely specified.
• Provide recommendations as to the most appropriate software engineering solution.
• Use appropriate analysis methods, approaches and techniques in software engineering projects to deliver an outcome that meets requirements.
• Implement software engineering projects using appropriate software engineering methods, approaches and techniques.
• Respond to changing priorities and problems arising within software engineering projects by making revised recommendations, and adapting plans as necessary, to fit the scenario being investigated.
• Determine, refine, adapt and use appropriate software engineering methods, approaches and techniques to evaluate software engineering project outcomes.
• Evaluate learning points arising from software engineering work undertaken on a project including use of methods, analysis undertaken, selection of approach and the outcome achieved, in order to identify both lessons learnt and recommendations for improvements to future projects.
• Extend and update software development knowledge with evidence from professional and academic sources by undertaking appropriate research to inform best practice and lead improvements in the organisation.
• Analyse client needs and determine how to advise them strategically through improved business processes, new ideas, or technology solutions.
• Effectively communicate value add to the client through a variety of media. For example, presentations, written reports, Storytelling in a professional setting through performing socio-technical process improvements in a range of environments.
• Make evidence based recommendations taking into account risks, costs, and benefits.
• Participate in walk-throughs for Information Technologies, to identify, document and evaluate key risks within a client’s organisation.
• Perform stakeholder analysis to identify, determine and deepen understanding of system requirements and develop client relationships.
• Effect change within an organisation through evaluation of a new system, process or initiative.
• Ensure legal and ethical requirements are accommodated in the development of digital and technology solutions.
• Evaluate the  success of new systems, processes, or initiatives.
• Use requirements elicitation, analysis and documentation to produce an acceptable solution for business problems or further opportunities.
• Conduct Process Analysis, Definition, Mapping and Modelling within a business situation without supervision.
• Produce Use Cases which are of value to all stakeholders of a system.
• Use tools and benchmarking to support modelling and requirements gathering and recommend approaches to team members as required.
• Produce a business case to scope a proposed project including business benefits and recommendations.
• Use products of analysis in the design and development of a system.
• Evaluate the impacts of model selection and how they inter-relate with each other when generating business analytics.
• Recommend and use appropriate software tools to implement Business Analysis tasks and outcomes.
• Discover, identify and analyse security threats, attack techniques and vulnerabilities and recommend mitigation and security controls.
• Undertake security risk assessments for complex systems without direct supervision and propose a remediation strategy relevant to the context of the organisation.
• Recommend improvements to the cyber security approaches of an organisation based on research into future potential cyber threats and considering threat trends.
• Manage cyber security risk.
• Use appropriate cyber security technology, tools and techniques in relation to the risks identified.
• Lead cyber security awareness campaigns and evaluate their effectiveness.
• Analyse cyber security requirements against other design requirements for systems or products, identify conflicting requirements and recommend appropriate solutions with clear explanation of costs and benefits.
• Lead the design and build of systems in accordance with a security case to address organisational challenges.
• Define Data Requirements and perform Data Collection, Data Processing and Data Cleansing.
• Apply different types of Data Analysis, as appropriate, to drive improvements for specific business problems.
• Find, present, communicate and disseminate data analysis outputs effectively and with high impact through creative storytelling, tailoring the message for the audience. Visualise data to tell compelling and actionable narratives by using the best medium for each audience, such as charts, graphs and dashboards.
• Identify barriers to effective analysis encountered both by analysts and their stakeholders within data analysis projects.
• Apply a range of techniques for analysing quantitative data such as data mining, time series forecasting, algorithms, statistics and modelling techniques to identify and predict trends and patterns in data.
• Apply exploratory or confirmatory approaches to analysing data. Validate and and test stability of the results.
• Extract data from a range of sources. For example, databases, web services, open data.
• Analyse in detail large data sets, using a range of industry standard tools and data analysis methods.
• Identify and collate stakeholder needs in relation to computer network requirements, plans and designs.
• Plan, design, document, and develop the relevant elements of a computer network within an organisation or between organisations, taking into account customer requirements (performance, scale), constraints (budget, equipment availability), and define policies for their use.
• Monitor performance and ensure networks are configured correctly and perform as expected by designers or architects. Undertake capacity management and audit of IP addressing and hosted devices.
• Investigate, troubleshoot and resolve data network faults in local and wide area environments, using information from multiple sources, Physically or Remotely by console connection. Recommend and implement short term fixes to restore service and, or, quality of experience and recommend longer term changes to prevent recurrence or reduce impact of future occurrences.
• Implement computer networks from a design including testing and validation. This includes populating variables in configurations, for example, IP addresses and subsequent application of configuration to equipment such as routers, switches, firewalls.
• Secure network systems by establishing and enforcing policies, and defining and monitoring access. Support and administer firewall environments in line with IT security policy.
• Research and evaluate emerging network technologies and assess relevance to current network requirements. Provide an objective opinion on how new features and technologies may be incorporated as required by the organisation.
• Investigate security concerns or attacks. For example, Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS), port scanning, assessing key metrics and indicators, evidencing the chosen steps to mitigate.
• Analyse a business problem to identify the role of digital and technology solutions.
• Identify risks, determine mitigation strategies and opportunities for improvement in a digital and technology solutions project.
• Analyse a business problem in order to specify an appropriate digital and technology solution.
• Initiate, design, code, test and debug a software component for a digital and technology solution.
• Apply relevant standard processes, methods, techniques and tools. For example, ISO Standards, Waterfall, Agile in a digital and technology solution project.
• Manage digital and technology solutions projects. For example, identifying and resolving deviations from specification, applying appropriate Project Management methodologies.
• Work effectively within teams, leading on appropriate digital technology solution activities.
• Apply relevant organisational theories. For example, change management principles, marketing approaches, strategic practice, and IT service management to a digital and technology solutions project.
• Apply relevant security and resilience techniques to a digital and technology solution. For example, risk assessments, mitigation strategies.
• Initiate, design, implement and debug a data product for a digital and technology solution.
• Determine and use appropriate data analysis techniques. For example, Text, Statistical, Diagnostic or Predictive Analysis to assess a digital and technology solutions.
• Plan, design and manage simple computer networks with an overall focus on the services and capabilities that network infrastructure solutions enable in an organisational context.
• Report effectively to colleagues and stakeholders using the appropriate language and style, to meet the needs of the audience concerned.
• Research, investigate, and evaluate innovative technologies or approaches in the development of a digital and technology solution.
• Apply relevant legal, ethical, social and professional standards to a digital and technology solution.

Training schedule

You will spend four days a week with us and one day a week at Burnley College studying towards your degree. Your college work and your work with us are designed to reinforce each other: the coursework gives you the computer science foundations, and we give you a live NetSuite and Celigo estate to apply them to.

Requirements

Essential qualifications

GCSE in:

Maths and English (grade A*-C/9-4)

Level 3 Qualification in:

Computer Science, IT, Maths or a related subject (grade Pass or above)

Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.

Skills

• Communication skills
• IT skills
• Attention to detail
• Customer care skills
• Problem solving skills
• Analytical skills
• Team working
• Creative
• Initiative