The Talent Track

Every business needs two audiences to say yes: customers, and future employers.

A website that only sells to customers is half a website. TenerTech's own site does both, it sells to small businesses, and it's the reason you're reading this page as a student considering these roles. That's the exact thinking you'll practice here.

Why this page looks like this

Most training platforms move you through content in a fixed order. This page doesn't. It's organised the way TenerTech actually builds client sites: around what a visitor needs to decide something, in this case, whether a role is worth pursuing.

The real lesson underneath

Every role below exists inside a business that needs a web presence people actually trust, whether that visitor is a paying customer deciding to book, or a hiring manager deciding whether to trust your portfolio. Design and development are never just for one audience.

Every seat here is a real, paid placement, not free labour. Students never pay to take part, and TenerTech doesn't run unpaid work on live client projects either. Tier 1 seats are funded from client revenue from day one; the rest open as we secure funded seats with private-sector sponsors. Ask us directly about pay and contract terms for the role you're applying to.
How It Works

Four tiers, one ladder, real client work

The 25+ roles below aren't 25 separate programmes. Every student moves through the same four-stage ladder, on real work, inside a small squad we call a Studio, where a senior TenerTech lead reviews every deliverable before a client ever sees it.

STAGE 1
Shadow
Weeks 1–2. Watches a real project and does fundamentals tasks. No client-facing output yet.
STAGE 2
Assist
Weeks 3–6. Owns a small, low-risk piece of a real deliverable, fully reviewed before it ships.
STAGE 3
Own
Month 2–3. Owns an entire deliverable end-to-end, spot-checked by the Studio Lead.
STAGE 4
Lead
Month 4+. Runs a Studio for a client project, supervising newer students.
Tier 1
Immediate revenue

Frontend, Backend, Full-Stack, Design, QA, Support

Tier 2
Adjacent revenue

PM/Scrum, Business Analysis, Product, DevOps, Marketing, Docs, Success

Tier 3
Specialist offers

Data Analytics, Data Engineering, BI, Sales Engineering, Mobile, SRE

Tier 4
Frontier roles

ML, AI/Prompt Engineering, AI Data, Data Science, Cybersecurity, Cloud

Foundations · Every Track

Before any tier: the fundamentals

Every student starts here, in Shadow stage, for the first 2–4 weeks, regardless of which tier they move into next.

Junior Developer Basics
Every track starts here, the raw fundamentals underneath every engineering role.
Skills you'll build
  • Git (branches, commits, pull requests)
  • HTML, CSS and JavaScript fundamentals
  • Reading error messages and debugging systematically
A real task example
"Fix 5 real bugs in an existing React app, then deploy your fix to Netlify."
Tier 1 · Launches First

Immediate revenue roles

These map straight onto services TenerTech already sells today: a Landing Page, a Small Business Site, a support ticket. A real client was always going to pay for this work; here, a supervised Studio does the build instead of a senior working alone, which is why this tier is largely self-funding from day one.

Frontend Developer
Builds everything a user actually sees and clicks.
Skills you'll build
  • React
  • Tailwind CSS
  • API calls
  • Accessibility basics
A real task example
"Redesign this landing page to be fully mobile-first."
Backend Developer
Builds the logic, data, and security behind the scenes.
Skills you'll build
  • Node.js or Python
  • Databases
  • REST APIs
  • Authentication
A real task example
"Build a REST API for a to-do app, including user login."
Full-Stack Developer
Owns a feature end-to-end, frontend and backend both.
Skills you'll build
  • Frontend + backend integration
  • State management
  • Basic deployment
A real task example
"Take a Figma design and ship it as a fully working full-stack app."
Product Designer / UX Designer
Designs how the product looks and feels to actually use.
Skills you'll build
  • Figma
  • User flows
  • Wireframing
A real task example
"Redesign this checkout flow with the goal of increasing conversion by 20%."
QA Engineer / Tester
Finds what's broken before a customer does.
Skills you'll build
  • Manual and automated testing
  • Bug reporting
  • Writing test cases
A real task example
"Write a test plan for this app, then log 10 real bugs with clear steps to reproduce each one."
Technical Support Engineer
Fixes the tech problems customers actually run into.
Skills you'll build
  • Troubleshooting
  • Ticketing systems
  • Clear, patient communication
A real task example
"Resolve 10 real support tickets, then write up the 3 most common issues for a public FAQ."
Tier 2 · Opens Once Tier 1 Is Running

Adjacent revenue roles

These don't bill a client directly, but they make Tier 1 run properly once a few Studios are active at once, and some open new revenue of their own, like a Digital Marketing student generating TenerTech's next lead.

Project Manager / Scrum Master
Keeps developers on track and clients in the loop.
Skills you'll build
  • Sprint planning
  • Backlog management
  • Running stand-ups
A real task example
"Run a 2-week sprint for a 3-person dev team and report progress to the client every Friday."
Business Analyst
Turns messy business problems into requirements engineers can actually build from.
Skills you'll build
  • Requirements gathering
  • Process mapping
  • Stakeholder interviews
A real task example
"Interview 3 (deliberately conflicting) stakeholders and turn their requests into one clear requirements document."
Product Manager
Defines what gets built, and why, before anyone writes a line of code.
Skills you'll build
  • Writing clear specs (PRDs)
  • Basic user research
  • Prioritisation under limited time/budget
A real task example
"Here are 50 real customer complaints. Write a PRD for what V1 should actually fix."
DevOps Engineer
Makes sure code actually gets from a laptop to the real world reliably.
Skills you'll build
  • Docker
  • GitHub Actions
  • AWS basics
  • Linux fundamentals
A real task example
"Deploy this app with a working CI/CD pipeline and basic uptime monitoring."
Digital Marketing / Growth
Gets the right people to actually find the product.
Skills you'll build
  • SEO basics
  • Ad platforms
  • Content strategy
A real task example
"Grow a demo site's organic traffic using only free tools, and show the numbers."
Tech Writer
Writes the docs so nobody has to guess how something works.
Skills you'll build
  • Technical documentation
  • Help articles
  • Plain-language writing
A real task example
"Write the help docs for a real feature that currently has zero documentation."
Customer Success Manager
Keeps clients around by making sure they actually succeed with the product.
Skills you'll build
  • Onboarding design
  • Retention thinking
  • Client communication
A real task example
"Write an onboarding flow so a new client is fully set up within their first week."
Tier 3 · Opens With Sponsor-Funded Seats

Specialist, packaged-offer roles

No standing client base yet, but each maps to a new package TenerTech can sell once a trained student can deliver it under supervision, the same way AI Code Reviewer and AI Visibility Setup became price-list items.

Data Analyst
Turns raw numbers into a story a CEO can actually act on.
Skills you'll build
  • SQL
  • Excel / Google Sheets
  • Dashboarding
A real task example
"The CEO wants a churn report. Use this messy CSV to build a clear dashboard."
Data Engineer
Builds the pipes that get clean data where it needs to go.
Skills you'll build
  • Python
  • SQL
  • Airflow
  • Cloud storage basics
A real task example
"Build a pipeline: pull from an API, clean the data, and load it into a database."
BI Developer
Turns scattered spreadsheets into one dashboard leadership actually trusts.
Skills you'll build
  • Power BI, Tableau, or Looker
  • Data modelling
  • Visual storytelling
A real task example
"Turn 3 messy, inconsistent spreadsheets into one clean, executive-ready dashboard."
SDR / Sales Engineer
Shows a customer why the tech is actually worth paying for.
Skills you'll build
  • Product demos
  • Handling objections
  • Basic CRM use
A real task example
"Demo this product to a mock client and handle 3 tough objections live."
Mobile Developer
Builds the app version of the product, not just the website.
Skills you'll build
  • React Native or Flutter
  • Device APIs (camera, location, etc.)
  • App store submission basics
A real task example
"Turn this website into a basic mobile app that supports push notifications."
Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
Keeps the thing from crashing, and knows what to do when it does anyway.
Skills you'll build
  • Monitoring & alerting
  • Incident response
  • Uptime/SLA thinking
A real task example
"Set up uptime monitoring for a live site and write the on-call runbook for when it goes down."
Tier 4 · Launches Last, Sandboxed First

Frontier roles

Real market demand, but the highest supervision and liability load if let loose on a live client system too early. These roles cut their teeth on TenerTech's own internal systems, or a named sponsor's own brief, before ever touching a client's production environment.

ML Engineer
Takes a trained model and makes it actually usable in production.
Skills you'll build
  • Model deployment
  • APIs
  • Monitoring model performance
A real task example
"Take an already-trained model and deploy it as a live, callable API endpoint."
AI Engineer / Prompt Engineer
Builds the AI agents and assistants people actually interact with.
Skills you'll build
  • Prompting techniques
  • APIs
  • RAG (retrieval-augmented generation)
  • LangChain or similar
A real task example
"Build an AI agent that answers customer FAQs directly from a stack of PDF documents."
AI Data Labeler / Trainer
Feeds AI systems the clean, accurate data they need to actually improve.
Skills you'll build
  • Data annotation
  • Quality control
  • Spotting edge cases models get wrong
A real task example
"Label 200 support tickets by category, and flag the ones a model keeps getting wrong."
Data Scientist
Finds patterns in data that turn into real predictions.
Skills you'll build
  • Python
  • Statistics
  • ML modelling basics
A real task example
"Using this historical dataset, predict which customers are likely to cancel next month."
Cybersecurity Analyst
Finds the holes before someone else does.
Skills you'll build
  • Nmap
  • OWASP Top 10
  • Basic penetration testing
A real task example
"Find 3 real vulnerabilities in this test website and report them clearly."
Cloud Architect
Designs the infrastructure so it doesn't fall over as the business grows.
Skills you'll build
  • AWS/Azure architecture
  • Cost optimisation
  • Scalability planning
A real task example
"Design the cloud infrastructure for an app expecting 10x user growth in 6 months."

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