Senior Regulatory Data Specialist – Water Resources in Cambridge

Salary: Circa £45,000 depending on skills and experience

Permanent, Full-time, with flexibility for part-time

Location: Flexible within the Anglian Water region, with regular travel required to central offices

Private health care

Double-matched pension

Virtual GP service for you and your household

Life assurance at 8 times salary

Join us at Anglian Water and play a critical role in protecting one of our most precious resources — water. This is an opportunity to work at the forefront of sustainable water resource management, ensuring that abstractions across our region are compliant, responsible, and aligned with our commitment to enhancing the natural environment. Our region includes some of the UK’s most environmentally sensitive catchments.

As Senior Regulatory Data Specialist, you’ll be central to ensuring abstraction activities are sustainably managed and compliant with regulatory requirements, helping us meet increasing environmental expectations from regulators, stakeholders, and the communities we serve. This is more than a technical role, it’s a chance to make a real impact on the future of water and the natural environment.

About The Role

This role will suit someone who is naturally detail-oriented, enjoys interrogating data, and is comfortable taking ownership of regulatory compliance under scrutiny. We will support development in abstraction licensing where candidates bring strong data and analytical experience.

Reporting to the Abstraction Compliance and Assurance Manager, the Senior Regulatory Data Specialist is responsible for the end-to-end management of abstraction licences across the Anglian Water region. You will lead on compliance monitoring, regulatory reporting, licence applications, and financial oversight, ensuring robust processes are in place and no regulatory commitments are missed.

This is a business critical role requiring strong attention to detail, excellent organisational skills, and the confidence to interpret complex regulations and communicate technical information clearly across the business.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead abstraction licence compliance monitoring, including daily checks and compliance investigations. You will play a key role in ensuring the business has robust, defensible evidence for compliance decisions.
• Ensure accuracy and integrity of all abstraction licence and monitoring datasets. You’ll influence how abstraction compliance is monitored and improved across the region.
• Produce high-quality regulatory submissions, including abstraction returns and self-reporting.
• Become the go-to technical expert on abstraction licensing and compliance, working closely with operational teams, analysts, and regulator.
• Manage abstraction licence applications, renewals, variations, transfers, and revocations.
• Oversee abstraction licence financials, including annual fees, charges, and derogation payments.
• Support enhanced modelling and analysis for high-risk (“hot”) licence reviews.
• Maintain accurate corporate records of all licence conditions and changes.
• Work collaboratively with external bodies, including the Environment Agency and technical consultants.

Required Skills And Experience

• Strong experience working with large datasets, data analysis, and reporting.
• Confidence interpreting regulatory, legal, and licence documentation.
• Experience managing regulatory submissions and compliance processes (though we will support development in abstraction licensing where candidates bring strong data and analytical experience).
• Strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Excellent organisational skills with strong attention to detail.
• Confidence and experience in owning large and complex financial processes and budget oversight.
• Experience using telemetry systems (Desirable).
• Experience in water resource management or environmental assessment (Desirable).

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

• Personal private health care.
• Life assurance (up to 8 x salary).
• Personal accident cover (up to 5 x salary).
• Double-matched pension (maximum 7% employee/14% employer contribution).
• 26 days annual leave – rising with length of service and the ability to buy more.
• Excellent family friendly policies, such as 26 weeks full pay for maternity/adoption leave, as well as 4 weeks paid paternity/partner leave.
• Opportunity for shared parental pay.
• Bonus scheme, up to 15%.
• Flexible benefits to support your wellbeing and lifestyle.

Inclusion at Anglian Water:

We value the representation & diversity within our communities. Inclusion is for everyone and we are an equal opportunity employer, which means we’ll consider all suitably qualified applicants regardless of gender identity or expression, ethnic origin, nationality, religion or beliefs, age, sexual orientation, disability status or any other protected characteristic. We recruit and develop our people based on merit and their passion for creating better outcomes, and we’re committed to creating an environment where all our colleagues feel they belong.