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Circa 45k, salary dependant on skills and experience

Base location in either Lincoln or Huntingdon (depending on your location) and home working (expectation is 2 days in the office)

Permanent

Full time, 37 hours per week

Do you have prior experience ofmodern data engineering, including data modelling?

Do you have experience of working within an Agile environment, or are keen to work in one?

Do you like to always explore, learn, challenge yourself, and are a good team player?

If you can answer yes to the above, we have an exciting opportunity for you with our expanding team!

The data service will go beyond the traditional data warehouse to provide a modern business intelligence capability that enables governed self-service analytics on trusted, well-engineered data products. This allows business SMEs and data and analytics specialists to work hand in hand to deliver insight that drives business performance, alongside emerging real-time and operational data capabilities.

What will my role involve?

The Data Engineer is a T-shaped professional (also referred to as a generalised specialist) with identifiable core skills, yet with the ability to work across multiple disciplines (both technical and non-technical) as required.

The Enterprise Data Engineer, whilst having core skills to deliver data and analytical solutions on our analytics and big data platform, will also act as a technical expert across data platform delivery, including batch data pipelines.

You will be expected to work in an Agile/Scrum environment, in a squad model consisting of various other developers. You may be expected to work as a lead within the squad and/or fulfil other roles as required.

The Enterprise Data Engineer will have the core skills to carry out the following activities:

• Actively contribute to work estimation

• Adopt and embed agile development and continuous improvement into team ways of working

• Support the onboarding of new team members and coach other Data Engineers

• Actively contribute to drafting and updating our service policies, procedures, work instructions, and guidance notes

• As a Data Solution Designer/Modeller, design robust, secure, and supportable corporate data solutions to meet business requirements, following appropriate data modelling approaches

• As a Data Engineer, develop, test, and/or quality assure data pipelines from corporate systems into the Data Lake

• As a Semantic Layer Developer, develop, test, and/or quality assure semantic models (where required to support downstream analytics and reporting)

• Where required, develop, test, and/or quality assure reports and dashboards

• As a Test Automation Specialist, build automated test frameworks and develop test harnesses for each component. You will be responsible for increasing overall test coverage and ensure a culture of automated testing is embraced

What does it take to be an Enterprise Data Engineer?

• Previous strong experience in data engineering using cloud platforms (e.g. Azure), including tools such as Databricks, Azure Data Factory, Spark, Python, and SQL (Power BI beneficial but not essential)

• Strong data engineering experience of at least 3-5 years

• Experience in data modelling (e.g. dimensional and/or lakehouse patterns)

• Experience delivering end-to-end data solutions from requirements through to production deployment

• Experience of working within an Agile/Scrum environment

• Experience/understanding of product lifecycle management

• Knowledge of Azure DevOps or similar tools

As a valued employee, you'll be entitled to:

• Personal private health care

• 26 days annual leave - rising with length of service

• Flexible working

• Pension scheme - Anglian Water double-matches your contributions up to 7%

• Bonus scheme

• Flexible benefits to support your wellbeing and lifestyle.

Why Anglian Water?

Anglian Water is not your typical water company. What we do really matters. Water is the lifeblood of our world, and we're proud of the difference we make. We put people at the heart of our business and we truly love what we do! If you're passionate about what you do and would like to make a difference, then we'd love to hear from you.

Inclusion at Anglian Water: Join us and make a difference. Our customers come from a wide range of backgrounds, and we think our workplace should reflect that. We are committed to making sure all our colleagues feel they belong and are supported to succeed. Together with our fellow water companies, we are committed to the Social Mobility Pledge; we are also a signatory to Business in the Community's Race at Work charter; we hold the Armed Forces Gold Covenant for Employers; we are an accredited Disability Confident employer, and we play a leading part in the Women's Utility Network.

Closing Date:7th June 2026

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