Data Engineer Reading, England
Job description
Who are we?
Thames Water is the UK’s largest water and wastewater company. We make a daily difference to our 15 million customers by supplying 2.6 billion litres of water through 32,000 km of pipes, keeping taps flowing and toilets flushing.
At Thames Water, every one of our actions, big and small, matters every day. Water is essential to life, so our business is always open.
What you’ll be doing
The successful Data Engineer will be joining our Data Engineering and Platform team; this team develops and operates a sector-leading, modern data platform. Your expertise would be enabling dev teams downstream to develop ground-breaking data science and data products. This team is also the centre of excellence for data engineering in the organisation and your passion will help us expand Thames Water's data engineering capability further.
Our Data Engineers work alongside data scientists, software developers, delivery leads and other disciplines; to complete data acquisition requests and evolve our leading-edge platforms and development environments. You would be working on stimulating technical challenges to support our continued transformation towards a data-driven business.
The right candidate will be joining a close-knit and skilled team where you can learn from, bounce ideas off and support your colleagues.
Role Responsibilities
- Working with Azure and Databricks, and building pipelines from source systems to our data lake. You will good hands on experience with Lake Warehouse and Databricks.
- Development and operation of our data platform and environments
- Analyse, design, plan, execute and evaluate data requirements to support business activities, innovation, and projects
- Working closely with data architects (to determine what data management systems are appropriate) and data scientists (to determine which data are needed for analysis).
- Tackling problems associated with database integration and unstructured data sets
- Support for users of our data platform, including advising on best practice
What you should bring to the role
- Experience in data engineering
- A degree to BSc or equivalent
- Excellent interpersonal skills and experience in dealing with stakeholders. Proficient and effective communicator.
- Competent/advanced programmer in Python
- Understanding of database architectures, warehousing and data lake solutions
- Knowledge and experience of the Azure platform and Databricks is a significant advantage
What’s in it for you?
The role is varied, giving you the opportunity to take responsibility and ownership, to think outside the box and to have thoughts and ideas used to create and improve processes. This is a great opportunity to contribute to making improvements - our team thrive on being challenged and ensuring that we deliver the best outcomes for our customers and our business.
We’re proud of the positive ways of working we’ve adopted during the pandemic, creating a more flexible and dynamic environment so all our colleagues can thrive. For our office-based roles, we’re moving to a hybrid approach with various options across working from home, office and our sites.
Our competitive salary package includes an excellent contributory pension, 26 days holiday per year increasing to 30 with length of service and a wider benefits scheme including our benefits hub, which is packed full of offers and information to save you money and support your wellbeing.
Thames Water is a dynamic, rewarding and diverse place to work, with opportunities around every corner. If you join our team, you’ll enjoy a fulfilling career and flexible working arrangements.
We’re also proud to embrace and promote diversity and believe that creating a workforce that reflects the communities we serve will help us to thrive. We encourage applications from everyone and offer extra support for those who need it throughout the recruitment process.
Find out more about working at Thames Water.
We deliver life's essential service so our customers, communities and the environment can thrive. This means, when a crisis happens, we all rally round to support our customers. As part of Team Thames, you’ll have the opportunity to sign up to support our customers on the frontline as an Ambassador. Full training will be given for what is undoubtedly an incredibly rewarding experience. It’s also a great opportunity to learn more about our business, meet colleagues and a earn bit of extra money along the way.
Disclaimer: due to the high volume of applications we receive, we may close a vacancy earlier than the advertised date. This is so we can manage all the applications properly and give candidates a positive experience. Once closed, we can’t consider any further applications, so please submit your application as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.
