2026 IT Apprentice

Opportunity: IT Apprentice

Grade: 008

Salary: $55,000- $65,000

Company: Aflac Columbus

Division: Digital Services

Recruiter: Alisha Hargrove

Work Designation. Depending on your location within the continental US, this role may be hybrid or remote.

• If you live within 50 miles of the Aflac offices located in Columbus, GA this role will be hybrid. This means you will be expected to work in the office for at least 60% of the work week. You will work from your home (within the continental US) for the remaining portion of the work week. Details of this schedule will be discussed with your leadership. 
• If you live more than 50 miles from the Aflac offices located in Columbus, GA this role will be remote. This means you will be expected to work from your home, within the continental US. If the role is remote, there may be occasions that you are requested to come to the office based on business need. Any requests to come to the office would be communicated with you in advance.

 

What does it take to be successful at Aflac?

• Acting with Integrity
• Communicating Effectively
• Pursuing Self-Development
• Serving Customers
• Supporting Change
• Supporting Organizational Goals
• Working with Diverse Populations

 

What does it take to be successful in this role?

• Basic administrative and organizational skills

• Strong written, verbal, analytical, and interpersonal skills

• Demonstrates acceptance of responsibility, flexibility in acceptance of assignments; exhibits dependability

• Proficient in major PC applications, including Microsoft Office, Excel, and Internet access

 

Areas of focus during the apprenticeship:

• UI/UX Design
• Cloud computing
• Artificial Intelligence
• Robotics
• Data Analytics

 

Education & Experience Required

• Bachelor's Degree In Computer Science, Information Systems or related field
• Zero to two years of experience in an IT environment

Or an equivalent combination of education and experience

 

 

Preferred Education & Experience 

• Object Oriented Development: Java, C++, C#, Python, R, PHP, Visual Basic.NET, JavaScript, Ruby, Perl, SIMSCRIPT, Object Pascal, Objective-C, Dart, Swift, Scala, Kotlin, Common Lisp, MATLAB, and Smalltalk.
• API development
• DevOps experience, continuous improvement. Tools would be Git, GitHub, JFrog, AzureDevOps
• Agile experience, specifically Scrum
• Good Engineer Practices like automated unit testing, test-driven development
• Cloud experience, specifically AWS
• Fundamental knowledge of data to be able to create scripts and data patchers
• Automated testing development in Postman, Rest Assured, Robot Framework

 

Principal Duties & Responsibilities

• Performs assigned duties for a two year period under the direction of experience personn