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Data Engineer

locations Thorpe Wood House time type Full time posted on Posted 2 Days Ago job requisition id R40844 Location: Thorpe Wood House, Peterborough Contract: Permanent Salary: £46,000, depending on skills and experience

Help Transform Data into Better Outcomes for Millions of Customers

Are you passionate about data engineering, cloud technologies, and creating solutions that drive real-world impact? Do you want to work at the forefront of digital innovation, helping shape the future of water infrastructure across the East of England?

We're looking for a Data Engineer to join the @one Alliance Digital, Data and Innovation Team. This is a unique opportunity to play a key role in designing, building, and managing the data platforms and pipelines that support one of the UK's largest and most ambitious infrastructure programmes.

Working alongside industry-leading partners including Microsoft, Databricks, and Autodesk, as well as world-renowned academic institutions such as Cambridge University and Cranfield University, you'll help unlock the value of data to improve project delivery, operational performance, and decision-making across hundreds of capital projects.

What You'll Be Doing

As a Data Engineer, you'll be responsible for developing and maintaining the data ecosystem that powers reporting, analytics, and innovation across the alliance.

Your responsibilities will include:

Designing, building, and maintaining scalable data pipelines within Microsoft Azure and Databricks environments.
Developing robust data ingestion, transformation, and integration processes from multiple data sources.
Managing and optimising enterprise data architecture using Bronze, Silver, and Gold medallion frameworks.
Ensuring data quality, accuracy, governance, and traceability across all data assets.
Supporting the delivery of reporting and analytics solutions by making trusted data available through centralised platforms.
Managing APIs and integrations between key digital systems and platforms.
Creating and maintaining technical documentation, data lineage models, architecture diagrams, and metadata standards.
Monitoring, troubleshooting, and resolving data-related issues to ensure reliable service delivery.
Supporting CI/CD practices and the industrialisation of data products and solutions.
Developing proof-of-concept and minimum viable product solutions that help solve business challenges.
Working closely with analysts, data scientists, reporting teams, and business stakeholders to deliver value-driven outcomes.
Identifying opportunities to improve business performance through innovative uses of data and emerging technologies.

About You

You'll be an enthusiastic and technically capable data professional who enjoys solving complex problems and turning data into meaningful business insights.

To be successful in this role, you'll ideally have:

Minimum of 2 years experience in a Data Engineering.
Experience designing and developing data pipelines, ETL processes, and data integration solutions.
Strong knowledge of Microsoft Azure data services and Databricks.
Experience working with data lakes, data warehouses, and modern cloud-based data architectures.
Understanding of data modelling, metadata management, data lineage, and data governance principles.
Experience using SQL and other relevant data engineering technologies and programming languages.
Knowledge of CI/CD principles and best practices within data engineering environments.
Experience managing APIs and integrating data across multiple business systems.
Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills with a focus on data quality and reliability.
The ability to communicate technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.
A collaborative mindset and a passion for continuous learning and innovation.

Why Join Us?

At Anglian Water, safety is more than a priority, it's a core value. You'll be joining a company committed to delivering essential services safely, sustainably, and responsibly while investing in its people and future capability.

You'll benefit from:

Personal private health care
Life cover – 8x annual salary
26 days holiday plus bank holidays (with flexibility for religious holidays)
Flexible working opportunities
Competitive pension scheme – we double-match your contributions up to 7%
Bonus scheme and a wide range of lifestyle benefits
Excellent training and development opportunities
The opportunity to work as a recognised Subject Matter Expert in a specialist technical field

Ready to Make an Impact?

If you're excited by the prospect of building modern data solutions, influencing digital transformation, and helping deliver critical infrastructure for the future, we'd love to hear from you.

Become the next Data Engineer within the @one Alliance Digital, Data and Innovation Team, helping us create smarter, more sustainable ways of delivering for our customers, communities, and environment.

Closing Date: 24th November 2026

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About Us

We are committed to reflect the diversity of the communities we serve in both our workforce and our supply chain partners to help us to understand and meet the needs of our customers. We are passionate and dedicated to the learning and development of our people, making sure they have the right skills and knowledge to be successful and to help achieve their potential.

We want to give everyone equal access to our recruitment process. If you have a disability or long-term condition, including neurodiversity and mental health conditions, we’ll support you throughout your application, and make any adjustments to make sure your disability or long-term condition is not a barrier to recruitment.

Become a part of Anglian Water’s future and join us on our journey as we live through our values to build trust, do the right thing, and are always exploring, to bring environmental and social prosperity to the region.

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