Digital Excellence Technical - Undergraduate Placement 2027
Join MBDA’s Digital Excellence Technical Undergraduate Placement and develop your knowledge in digital capabilities that support MBDA from data & AI, cyber security, infrastructure, enterprise technology and business applications.
Digital Excellence brings together the Information Technology and Information Systems capabilities that underpin MBDA’s digital environment from protecting our organisation and connecting our people, to designing enterprise solutions and developing AI & data that can transform the way we work.
Salary: £24,460
Dynamic (hybrid) working: 2-3 days per week on-site due to workload classification
Security clearance: British Citizen or a Dual UK national with British citizenship
Restrictions and/or limitations relating to nationality and/or rights to work may apply. As a minimum and after offer stage, all successful candidates will need to undergo HMG Basic Personnel Security Standard checks (BPSS), which are managed by the MBDA Personnel Security Team.
This role is scheduled to close for applications at midnight on Monday 4th January 2027 but may close earlier depending on application volumes.
During your one-year placement, you will join one of our Digital Excellence teams, with your placement area determined by business priorities and opportunities available at the time. This could include: Cyber, Digital Factory & Business Applications, Workplace Services, Infrastructure & Networks, Enterprise Architecture & AI & Data.
Whichever area you join, you will work alongside experienced specialists and contribute to real projects and business challenges. Depending on your placement, you could be designing digital solutions, analysing data, exploring emerging technologies, supporting enterprise platforms, strengthening our digital foundations or helping shape how technology is used across MBDA.
With support from experienced colleagues, you could develop skills in:
The placement in Digital Excellence will give you hands-on experience of technology in a complex engineering environment, while building the technical, business and professional skills that will support your future career.
Digital technology plays a critical role in enabling our people and our business to succeed. Within Digital Excellence, you’ll have the opportunity to work on meaningful challenges, learn from specialists across a wide range of disciplines and contribute to the digital capabilities that will support MBDA now and into the future.
Our company: Peace is not a given, Freedom is not a given, Sovereignty is not a given
MBDA is a leading defence organisation. We are proud of the role we play in supporting the Armed Forces who protect our nations. We partner with governments to work together towards a common goal, defending our freedom.
We are proud of our employee-led networks, examples include: Gender Equality, Pride, Menopause Matters, Parents and Carers, Armed Forces, Ethnic Diversity, Neurodiversity, Disability and more…
We recognise that everyone is unique, and we encourage you to speak to us should you require any advice, support or adjustments throughout our recruitment process.
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A world leader in missiles and missile systems.
Our multi-national organisation is made up of around 13,000 employees working across the UK, France, Italy, Germany, Spain and the US, and is the first truly integrated European defence company.
As the European champion in our sector, our vision is to continue to grow our presence as a global player. Our mission is to achieve this by establishing ourselves as an industry leader; promoting co-operation and delivering technical and operational excellence to our customer.
Our values are:
• Innovation:
Ensuring operational and strategic advantage;
• Commitment:
Always delivering on our promises;
• Integrity:
A reliable and trusted partner with the highest professional and ethical standards;
• Passion:
Applying all our energy and focus to every task, recognising our role in providing mission critical capabilities;
• Team Spirit:
Harnessing our diversity and collective purpose to deliver competitive advantage to all of our stakeholders.
We have a rich heritage of designing and producing missiles and missile systems to meet the whole range of current and future operational requirements for the three armed forces (army, navy, air force). We are proud to be a trusted partner to our armed forces and work with them to deliver a cutting-edge portfolio of products.
