Digital & Data Industrial Placement - Bristol

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

Power Your Curiosity at PA

Joining us as a placement student is a big step. Whether you’re coming from a specialist background or from an unrelated subject, we want you to be bold, stay curious and dive into the opportunities we have to offer.

Digital isn’t just about fast-changing technology opening new possibilities; 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. Working within our Digital & Data function will get you stuck into delivering some of the most advanced 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 Industrial Placement Scheme, including access to mentoring.

Our People Make a Difference

When you join our team as a placement student, you’ll work on big things from day one. You’ll gain the knowledge and experience you need to build a successful career in technical consulting and contribute meaningfully to vital projects, working within an ambitious team that promotes career growth.

Digital and data has changed businesses forever. Organisations that have embraced digital are leading their industry and influencing others – and those that haven’t are falling behind. Joining us as a Digital and Data intern, you will work on an assortment of exciting projects providing innovative analytical solutions to our clients' most critical business issues.

Our Digital and Data stream is a wide team that offers a broad range of specialisms:

• AI
• Data science and advanced analytics
• Data Engineering
• Digital strategy & design
• Architecture
• DevOps

As well as being part of PA’s global Digital and Data community, you’ll also be part of our growing Bristol-based team, playing an active role in developing our business and connecting with partners and clients in the region.

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

Qualifications

About You

We’re looking for placement students who are:

• Adaptable and able to flex their style and thinking
• Collaborative and work at their best in dynamic teams
• Curious and want to broaden their understanding of the world
• Value diversity and share our core values
• 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
• Have an enquiring mind, with the capability for innovative and analytical thinking
• Strong numeracy skills and natural problem solvers
• Excited by the prospect of developing cutting-edge technical expertise

Qualifications

• Studying towards an undergraduate degree in any discipline that involves computer science, data science or numeracy skills.
• Some coding background is welcome – experience programming in Python and knowledge of SQL is a plus.
• Experience processing and gaining insights from data will be beneficial for the role.

The Offer

• We’ll look to you to provide creative ideas and solutions, working with data to tackle complex client problems in collaboration with diverse teams
• Opportunity to work across all areas of the development lifecycle, from strategy to implementation, and to take on assignments in different sectors
• We will provide you with a broad base of experience from which to 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 Manchester/Bristol office
• This role will start in July 2025 and be for 12 months. We will confirm the exact date at the offer stage.

Additional Information

Life At PA encompasses our people's experience at PA. It's about how we enrich people's 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.