Fact or Fiction?
Thames House has a miniature railway
Why join the TGDP?
Our friendly, open, supportive culture will make you feel right at home during this two year structured programme. You’ll work with a wide variety of teams to broaden your skills and experience. Whether it’s developing core applications, creating innovative solutions or meeting business needs, our technology professionals do it all. These are unique projects that you can’t do anywhere else – with real and tangible impact: helping to keep the UK safe.
So, bring your passion for technology, your ability to use technology to solve complex challenges, and an enthusiasm to learn new skills and contribute to our mission.
Starting Salary
£44,190
Our starting salary in Central London is £44,190.
Culture
Supportive
Down-to-earth, friendly and open, our culture is our greatest strength. We go out of our way to support each other, making sure everybody always feels welcome and able to bring their whole selves to work. And, of course, you can’t take the work home with you, so once you leave the office, we don’t expect you to work outside of your working hours.
Future
Career growth
Our training programme is designed to enable you to meet your potential as an innovative technology professional and equip you with the skills and ability to manage and lead in different areas of our technology departments in the future.
Streams
You will cover a diverse range of activities to support the delivery of our products and services. You will build your ability in maintaining delivery momentum, planning, team collaboration, communicating between technical and non-technical teams; while applying Agile and lean practices and methodologies to successfully take products through their lifecycles. This role will equip you with the skills and qualifications to grow in this profession.
You will work as part of a multi-disciplinary product team, to build and run secure applications and products that drive our investigations, analysis and corporate functions. Our tech stacks vary between products, including Java or C# for back-end systems and JavaScript for our front-end, employing frameworks such as React.js. We also make use of cloud technologies such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Azure. Whatever you work on, it will be unique, varied, and will have a direct and rewarding impact on the success of our organisations.
Business Analysts undertake research and analysis to understand problems, obtain requirements and help design solutions. You’ll work on various challenges - often unique and unusual - collaborating with a range of stakeholders/customers and technical delivery teams. You’ll use a structured approach to analysing and communicating solutions to deliver value - aligning against our organisational strategy.
You will develop knowledge and skills that will equip you to understand, manage, and mitigate the risk of our critical data and services being disclosed, altered, or denied access to. You will research, understand and design security controls for systems and services and develop architecture patterns and security approaches to new technologies. You will also communicate security risk across technical and non-technical stakeholders enabling informed decisions to be made about business direction and priorities.
You will incorporate experience design into every stage of product development, delivering highly usable products that delight end-users. Providing unique insight into prioritising areas for change, focussing on the way users interact with products, or developing captivating visual concepts, you will be at the heart of designing MI5's future mission capabilities.
You will learn to apply state-of-the-art data science and machine learning techniques to identify insights from our data at scale. Following a data science training pathway, you will work as part of a multi-disciplinary data science team to research, develop, test, and optimise machine learning capabilities, and have the opportunity to apply these capabilities to mission focussed requirements from across our organisation.
What we are looking for
To join the Technology Graduate Development Programme, you will have a passion for technology and have (or be expecting) a 2:2 (or higher) by September 2026 in a Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) subject. We are keen to hear from you, whatever your background. We want to hear from people with different perspectives, identities, and lived experiences. Ensuring better diversity and inclusion is central to our future as an organisation, as we enrich our mix of talents, and everyone is supported to give their best.
Application process
Throughout our recruitment process we will assess your potential to perform in one of our key technology areas within MI5 or MI6.
Reasonable adjustments
We are committed to providing equitable opportunities throughout the recruitment process, so everyone feels comfortable, supported, and able to do their best. So, if you have a disability, are neurodivergent, or require reasonable adjustments for any other reason, please let us know if we can make any adjustments to support you during the recruitment process. Examples of reasonable adjustments we can provide include, but are not limited to, extra time and more frequent breaks during assessments, and printed materials on coloured paper. You can request reasonable adjustments at any stage of the recruitment process via [email protected] for MI5 and [email protected] for MI6. We will do our best to accommodate and support you.
Our other graduate offerings
As the country faces increased threats to national security, a role as an Intelligence Officer gives you the opportunity to have a tangible impact on the security of the UK.
Our Intelligence and Data Analysts use advanced data analytical techniques that place them at the heart of MI5's investigations.
Go from STEM graduate to fully trained Protective Security Specialist as you learn how to protect the UK from threats most people would never consider.
Our Business Enablers help keep the country safe by providing the vital services that MI5 needs to operate.