Software Engineer – Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS)

Circa 40k 45k salary depending on skills and experience
Permanent
Full time 37 hours a week
Hybrid working & Lincoln or Huntingdon Office

Anglian Water offers a flexible approachthis role provides you the flexibility to work from home and from an Anglian Water office. Your base location will either be in our Lincoln or Huntingdon office.

Join the Digital Transformation at Anglian Water!

Were on an exciting journey in Digital Engineering redefining our role from a traditional support function to a trusted strategic partner. Our Digital Engineering practice works side by side with subject matter experts across the business to cocreate usercentred datadriven systemslike our Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS)that boost performance and productivity. Using modern tech and agile thinking we design build and evolve digital solutions that stay ahead of business needs and tech trends.

We dont just deliverwe continuously improve ensuring our digital solutions remain powerful purposeful and perfectly aligned with the future.

As a Software Engineer youll be a vital member of one of our agile Digital Squadssmall crossfunctional teams aligned to specific areas of the business. In this role youll be instrumental in the evolution of our LIMS a key system that supports water quality analysis sample tracking and regulatory compliance across our laboratory operations.

Our squads follow Agile Scrum and DevOps principles and work closely with Product Owners Scrum Masters UX/UI Designers User Researchers and other engineers. Collaboration is key and youll also partner with key teams like Architecture Security and Service Operations to ensure what we build is secure reliable and aligned with organisational standards. Our goal To deliver a robust userled LIMS that supports lab efficiency and data accuracy at scale.

What Youll Be Doing

As a handson agile Software Engineer youll be responsible for delivering maintaining and evolving our Laboratory Information Management System. This includes everything from design and estimation to coding cloud infrastructure management and supporting the LIMS in production.

While youll typically work within your squad there will be opportunities to lead on specific technical components of the LIMS and to enhance your personal skills and domain knowledge.

Day to day youll:

• Manage your own workload using Kanban boards staying focused and selfmotivated

• Collaborate closely with your team to align on goals and priorities

• Contribute to retrospectives and help improve how we work from tools to processes

• Advise and support Product Owners translating laboratory and data requirements into scalable efficient system features

• Own the detailed system design ensuring best practices and engineering standards are met

Key Accountabilities

Systems Analysis Design & Estimation

• Work with Product Owners Architecture Security and Analysts to understand LIMSspecific user needs

• Create highlevel designs estimate development work and define nonfunctional requirements (e.g. system uptime sample tracking reliability secure data handling)

• Act as a technical consultant on testing strategies and contribute to DevOps practices

Software Development & Support

• Design build and maintain LIMS modules and supporting cloud infrastructure

• Implement deployment strategies (CI/CD) maintain documentation and support disaster recovery planning

• Lead on testing activities (TDD BDD automation) conduct code reviews and provide thirdline support for LIMSrelated issues

Agile Ways of Working

• Actively contribute to Agile ceremonies

• Help refine the backlog and reduce technical debt within the LIMS codebase

• Promote a transparent userfocused culture aligned with Scrum values and Anglian Waters mission

What does it take to be a Software Engineer

Were looking for a proactive solutionsfocused Software Engineer who thrives in a collaborative agile environment. Youll bring a strong commitment to continuous improvement problemsolving and usercentric developmentespecially in the context of complex systems like a LIMS.

Key skills and attributes include:

• Advocate of Agile and continuous improvement

• Strong communicator able to explain technical issues to both technical and nontechnical audiences

• Collaborative influential and skilled in stakeholder engagement

• Curious selfmotivated and resilient

• Balances quality engineering with timely delivery

• Teamoriented with a supportive coaching mindset

What youll bring:

• A degree or equivalent experience in software engineering or related discipline

• A solid track record in building scalable reliable systemsideally with some experience in laboratory scientific or highly regulated data domains

• Proficiency across a range of technologies: backend frontend cloud infrastructure and possibly lowcode platforms

• Proven engineering rigour and a pragmatic approach to delivery

As a valued employee youll be entitled to:

• Full private healthcare with no excess

• 26 days leave rising with service Bank Holidays with the option to swap Christmas and Easter holidays for those celebrated by your religion

• A flexible working culture

• Competitive pension scheme we doublematch your contributions up to 6%

• Life Assurance at eight times your salary

• Personal Accident cover up to 5x your salary

• Bonus Scheme

• Lots of great discounts

• Flexible benefits to support your wellbeing and lifestyle

• Paid time off when youre physically and mentally unwell

• An excellent Family Leave package to help you support your family

Why Anglian Water

Anglian Water is not your typical water company. Just take a look at our Love Every Drop strategy and youll start to get a feel for our culture. Its collaborative innovative and inspiring. We put people at the heart of our business and we truly love what we do!

If you want to help us embrace new technology and the power of people to keep us at the forefront of our industryespecially through critical systems like our LIMSplease apply today!

Closing date: 18th May 2025

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