AI Implementation Analyst (Apprentice)
Eque2 is seeking a hands on Automation Support Analyst (Apprentice) to help accelerate AI and automation adoption across the business and turn improvement opportunities into real operational value. This role is ideal for a high potential graduate, early career technologist or career changer who is curious, practical and eager to learn.
Overview
Turn AI opportunities into implemented, adopted and measurable business outcomes by combining business transformation with hands-on agent and automation delivery.
In this apprenticeship role, you will support business analysis, workflow improvement, rapid prototyping and the practical implementation of AI and automation tools. Working across different functions, you will help discover opportunities, understand requirements, map and redesign workflows, prototype simple solutions, support the deployment of AI agents and automations, and contribute to measuring the value delivered.
You will learn from executives, technical colleagues and frontline teams, gaining hands‑on experience with Microsoft Copilot Studio, Microsoft 365 Copilot, Power Platform, Vibe Coding tools and other emerging AI technologies. With guidance, you will help turn ideas into working, governed and accessible solutions that improve productivity and streamline digital processes.
This is not a traditional project management, change management or data science role. It is a practical implementation role for someone who can move from a business need to a tested, documented and adopted automation. As your capability grows, you will help Eque2 progress from isolated experimentation to repeatable, operationalised AI delivery, while supporting the AI Centre of Excellence and Champion Network.
What Success Looks Like
- Support the building and deployment of AI agents and automations that solve defined business problems
- Assist with configuring, testing and refining low/no‑code automations and simple AI agents under guidance from senior colleagues. Contribute to turning business requirements into working, accessible and responsibly‑implemented solutions.
- Contribute to a repeatable approach for discovering, assessing and prioritising AI opportunities
- Help review workflows, map processes and identify inefficiencies. Support the assessment of viability, risks, data quality and user needs to ensure opportunities are responsibly prioritised.
- Assist in maintaining a visible pipeline of prioritised initiatives across business functions
- Support the organisation in documenting opportunities, tracking progress and communicating updates to stakeholders. Help ensure transparency and alignment with business goals.
- Help deliver measurable productivity, efficiency, quality, customer or commercial improvements
- Contribute to testing, iteration and refinement of solutions. Assist with collecting data, reporting outcomes and evidencing improvements achieved through automation.
- Support sustained adoption while maintaining appropriate governance, security and control
- Help produce user guides, training materials and accessible documentation. Assist colleagues during onboarding and adoption of new tools. Contribute to responsible, ethical and secure implementation practices.
- Contribute to the development of Eque2’s AI Centre of Excellence and Champion Network
- Participate in knowledge‑sharing, peer learning and community activities. Support colleagues by sharing insights, documenting learning and helping promote responsible AI adoption across teams.
- Help demonstrate clear, evidenced value from AI investment and convert learning into reusable patterns
AI Opportunity Discovery
- Engage teams across Eque2 to understand business challenges, processes and opportunities, with support from senior colleagues.
- Assist in planning structured AI discovery workshops.
- Identify pain points, bottlenecks, repetitive work and avoidable friction through guided process reviews.
- Support the assessment and prioritisation of use cases based on value, feasibility, readiness, risk and reuse potential.
- Help translate business needs into clear, simple implementation plans and measurable outcomes.
AI Solution Design and Build
- Support the design, build, testing and deployment of AI agents using Microsoft Copilot Studio.
- Use Vibe Coding and AI‑assisted development tools to help turn natural‑language requirements into prototypes, scripts and workflow solutions.
- Assist in developing copilots, agents and workflow automations integrated with Microsoft 365 and relevant business systems.
- Configure prompts, instructions, knowledge sources, actions, workflows, connectors and integrations under guidance.
- Prototype rapidly to test user need, feasibility and expected value before scaling.
- Review, test and refine AI‑generated outputs, escalating security, architecture or integration risks where specialist support is required.
- Produce proportionate documentation and handover materials.
- Work with internal technical teams and specialist partners when deeper architecture, integration or engineering is needed.
Business Analysis and Process Transformation
- Support analysis of current processes, workflows, controls, information flows and decision points.
- Contribute to redesigning work so that AI augments people, reduces friction and releases capacity for higher‑value activity.
- Gather and document functional and non‑functional requirements.
- Help produce use cases, process maps, solution designs, implementation specifications and acceptance criteria.
- Support embedding new solutions into operational processes, roles and ways of working.
Change, Adoption and Benefits Realisation
- Help build stakeholder ownership and support behavioural adoption from discovery through to operational use.
- Assist with communications, training, guidance and activities within the AI Champion Network.
- Support defining baselines, success measures, benefit hypotheses and benefit owners before build.
- Monitor adoption, utilisation, quality and business outcomes after deployment.
- Use evidence and user feedback to help improve, scale, pause or retire solutions.
Governance and Continuous Improvement
- Maintain accurate records of use cases, agents and benefits portfolios.
- Apply Eque2’s AI governance, risk, data protection, security and approval requirements.
- Contribute to reusable standards, components, delivery patterns and good practice.
- Help ensure solutions remain aligned with business priorities and deliver intended outcomes.
- Escalate delivery, data, operational and ethical risks early and clearly.
Entry requirements
About You – Apprentice
You are a curious, practical problem‑solver with the potential to grow into an AI implementation and digital transformation professional. You may be a recent graduate, early in your career or transitioning from another discipline. What matters most is evidence that you can learn quickly, bring clarity to an unclear problem, explore whether AI is the right answer and help build a simple, workable solution when it is. You are comfortable experimenting, seeking feedback and improving your work through iteration.
You focus on outcomes rather than technology for its own sake. You understand, or are motivated to learn, how process, people, data, controls and adoption shape successful AI and automation delivery. You communicate simply, work collaboratively and take ownership of moving ideas from concept towards safe, practical and sustainable operational use.
Qualifications
Essential:
- Five GCSEs at grades A*–C / 9–4 (or equivalent), including English and Maths
Pre‑requisites
- Some practical exposure to digital tools, AI, automation or simple prototypes through study, personal projects or early work experience.
- Willingness and aptitude to learn Microsoft Copilot Studio, Microsoft 365 Copilot and Power Platform.
- Ability to use natural language and AI‑assisted tools to create or refine basic prototypes or workflows.
- Comfortable testing and checking AI‑generated outputs with support.
- Able to break down an unclear problem into steps, user needs and measurable outcomes.
- Curious, analytical and improvement‑focused, with the confidence to question whether AI is the right solution.
- Clear communicator who can work collaboratively with business and technical colleagues.
- Awareness of responsible AI, data protection and the importance of human oversight.
- Strong learning mindset, with enthusiasm to develop new technical and business skills.
- Able to organise work and manage priorities with guidance and coaching.
Advantageous (Not Essential)Basic familiarity with Claude or Claude Code (optional).
- Introductory knowledge of any coding or scripting language and MCPs (e.g., Vibe Code, JavaScript, Python, Power Fx, SQL, HTML/CSS).
- Experience with Power Automate, SharePoint, Teams, Dataverse, APIs or connectors.
- Any Microsoft Applied Skills or beginner‑level certifications.
- Exposure to user research, process mapping, testing or change support.
- Awareness of responsible AI, guardrails, testing and data protection.
- Interest in software, SaaS or how AI creates commercial value.
Training to be provided
AI & Automation Practitioner Level 4 Apprenticeship Standard.
AI and automation are transforming how organisations improve efficiency, reduce manual effort and deliver better business outcomes. However, achieving long-term value requires people with the skills to identify opportunities, build robust solutions and manage AI responsibly at scale.
The AI & Automation Practitioner apprenticeship develops employees into specialists who can design, implement and optimise AI-powered automations and agentic AI solutions that support business growth, productivity and innovation.
Ideal for organisations looking to embed advanced AI and automation capability across their operations.
Programme overview:
Designing AI-powered automation solutions
Identify high-value automation and AI opportunities
Design scalable AI and automation solutions
Develop agentic AI workflows and cloud-based automations
Embed responsible AI, governance and data security
Delivering automation that drives business impact
Test, deploy and monitor AI-powered solutions
Measure business value and benefits realisation
Support organisational adoption and change management
Build a long-term automation strategy aligned to business goals
Things to consider
Salary band is £26,000 – £28,000 depending on experience.
This role is hybrid, with an expectation to be in the office three days per week.
Future prospects
A permanent position may be available upon successful completion of the apprenticeship.





