Enterprise Data Engineer

Circa £42k, 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

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.

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.

• 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

• 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 Dev Ops or similar tools

• 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 6%
• Bonus scheme
• Flexible benefits to support your wellbeing and lifestyle.

Closing Date: 12th May 2026