Data Engineer - Datacore / IOTT

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 of modern data engineering, including data modelling and working with real-time or streaming data? Do you have experience of working within an Agile environment, or are keen to work in one? Do you enjoy exploring, learning, and challenging yourself, and are you a strong 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 data platform that supports both analytical and operational use cases. Within our Datacore (IOTT) platform, this includes enabling real-time and near real-time data capabilities, integrating data from industrial and operational systems, and delivering trusted, well-engineered data products that drive business performance in critical environments.

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 Data Engineer (Datacore / IOTT Platform), whilst having core skills to deliver data solutions on our analytics and big data platform, will also act as a technical expert across real-time and batch data platform delivery.
• You will work on building and maintaining data pipelines that integrate industrial, IoT, and enterprise data sources into a secure, scalable cloud platform.
• 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 Data Engineer (Datacore / IOTT) will have the core skills to carry out the following activities:

• Design robust, secure, and supportable data solutions for both batch and streaming use cases, ensuring scalability, resilience, and security by design.
• Develop, test, and support data pipelines integrating data from industrial, IoT, and enterprise systems using technologies such as Azure Synapse, and event streaming platforms (e.g. Event Hubs, Kafka, MQTT, Quix).
• Work with edge and integration platforms (e.g. HighByte, Ignition, Quix, or similar) to ingest, model, and standardise operational data, aligned to a Unified Namespace (UNS) approach for organising and distributing real-time operational data.
• Build and optimise solutions for handling time-series and telemetry data, ensuring performance and usability at scale.
• Collaborate with architects, cloud engineers, and platform teams to design and evolve data platform capabilities, including CI/CD, deployment automation, and environment management.
• Ensure data quality, observability, and reliability across real-time and batch pipelines.
• Where required, contribute to downstream data modelling and analytics to support reporting and insight.
• Build automated test frameworks and develop test harnesses for each component, increasing overall test coverage and ensuring a culture of quality and reliability across the platform.

What does it take to be a Data Engineer (Datacore / IOTT)?

• Strong experience in data engineering using cloud platforms (e.g. Azure), including tools such as Azure Synapse, Spark, Python, and SQL.
• Experience working with real-time or streaming data pipelines (e.g. Event Hubs, Kafka, MQTT, Quix, or similar).
• Experience working with time-series or telemetry data.
• Experience integrating data from APIs, industrial systems, or edge platforms (e.g. HighByte, Ignition, or similar).
• Familiarity with Unified Namespace (UNS) principles and MQTT-based architecture is advantageous.
• Experience in data modelling (e.g. relational modelling, dimensional modelling, or similar approaches suited to operational systems).
• Experience delivering end-to-end data solutions from ingestion through to production deployment.
• Experience working in an Agile/Scrum environment.
• Experience collaborating with platform and engineering teams to support CI/CD, DevOps, and engineering best practices.
• Knowledge of Azure DevOps or similar tools.
• Awareness of security, data governance, and working within regulated or operationally critical environments is desirable.

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