Digital Data Engineer

Who are we?  

Here within the @one Alliance we are a totally collaborative organisation made up of our eight partner companies (Anglian Water, Balfour Beatty, Barhale, Binnies, MMB, MWH Treatment, Skanska and SWECO) and our extended supply chain, delivering over half of Anglian Water’s capital investment programme.  

We are gearing up for our most exciting and challenging Asset Management Period yet, known as AMP8, this will see us deliver a programme of work larger than we’ve ever delivered before. We’ll be embarking on a new kind of project delivery focusing on nature-based solutions like wetlands and urban drainage schemes.   

We are driving change, empowering us to set global benchmarks and build a better environment, with the opportunity to offer enhanced growth and development to our workforce. We’re looking to build on our existing teams with an environment built for career progression.  

With a variety of challenging and complex projects, it is essential we present and support the most innovative and pro-active digital solutions possible, providing an industry-leading end-to-end digital facility across the @one Alliance. To that end we are seeking a Digital Data Engineer to join our team to help us achieve success!

What will you be doing as our new Digital Data Engineer?

You will play a key role in managing the data requirements for the @one alliance as part of our Alliance Digital Team. You will ensure the Alliance’s data exploration’s data needs are met by acquiring data from various sources, variable engineering and using data science techniques to add value to the process.  Working alongside our suppliers Autodesk, Microsoft, ESRI as well as world class academic institutions you will have an opportunity to make a real difference supporting the capability that delivers hundreds of projects across the region for years to come. 

Sound exciting?  Then read on:

Key responsibilities:

Digital Implementation:

• Contribute to the successful implementation of new digital platforms and new functionality within existing systems.

• Ensure the outputs of models are made available in the Azure data lake and assist with industrialising the outputs in the data warehouse. 

• Manage and administrate our existing APIs to pull and push data between our various platforms and ensuring alignment.

• Create/contribute to case studies for successful trials and implementations.

• Working with other members of the digital team and appropriate stakeholders you will assist in the linking of platforms to ensure that manual intervention is kept to a minimum and data integrity is maximised.

Platform Support:

Our platforms are utilised by a diverse user base including @one, partners, supply chain and AW. As you become an expert in the alliances digital platform you will be expected to:

• Offer end user support.

• Manage calls to the providers Service desks where applicable.

• Assist superusers/platform champions in making sure that everyone is kept up to date in changes to platform functionality, considering the roadmaps created by platform leads.

• Deliver periodic and ad hoc refresher training as the need arises.

Process Improvement

• Become an expert in the alliance’s digital platforms you will be best placed, working with the department/function, to look at how business processes can be altered to work in harmony with the system’s functionality.

• You will learn to and then implement process changes driven by this functionality, obtaining buy in from users and showing them how it works whilst ensuring that any runbooks are kept up to date.

A little bit about your skills, experience and behaviours….

To be considered for this position, ideally you have exposure/experience in Implementation, particularly in SaaS products and experience in the management and support of business systems.  You will come from an environment where exploitation of software solutions to improve business efficiency is key.  Although experience in a specific industry is not essential Water Industry experience will be a distinct advantage.

More importantly is your willingness to learn systems and config, and interest in the project life cycle.  You’ll use your technical, commercial and customer facing skills to grow in this position, and your willingness to support end users will ensure you are the go-to person for support.  Your positive team working attitude and good communication skills and focus on process improvement will ensure you stand out in a crowd!

If this position excites you and most importantly you have the aptitude to make a difference apply today!

Our vision

A collaborative alliance, driving change. Empowering us to set global benchmarks and building a better environment for our customers. We strive to:

Empower our people; Delight our Customers; Embrace digital transformation; Deliver brilliance.

Our Values

To bring environmental and social prosperity to the region we serve through our commitment to Love Every Drop we:

Build trust; Do the right thing; Are always exploring

The Anglian Water @one Alliance. Eight partners, endless opportunities.

Location: Hybrid, Peterborough