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 youll 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 were proud of the difference we make. We put people at the heart of our business and we truly love what we do! If youre passionate about what you do and would like to make a difference then wed 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 Communitys 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 Womens Utility Network.

Closing Date: 7th June 2026

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