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, to keep taps flowing and toilets flushing. We are an essential service and have operated throughout the Covid19 pandemic.
At Thames Water, every one of our actions, big and small, matters every day. Water is essential to daily life, and that means our business is always open.
What you will be doing
As the Data Engineer, you’ll implement efficient data flow and data analysis processes to automate repetitive tasks in the team. This involves the development and implementation of data flow from various digital platforms (company internal and external) into the team’s databases. You’ll also be responsible for providing analysis and commentary to enable the department and our customers to make informed business decisions.
We are looking for a highly independent individual to become the data engineering and analysis subject matter expert in the team. Once the initial data automation project is completed, there will be the opportunity to further develop this function.
The main responsibilities of the role include:
- Develop and maintain data flows (company internal and external)
- Design and maintain internal databases and future data analysis products (e.g., weather database, flow database)
- Collect and analyze data to support the needs of the team or department and manipulate as necessary (such as trend and performance analysis)
- Provide management reports and presentations, collecting and analyzing complex technical data with expert commentary, advice, and recommendations
- Develop data strategy for the team in conjunction with the team lead and team manager
We’re looking for you to:
- Have a good understanding of coding best practices and design patterns and experience with code and data versioning, dependency management, code quality, and optimisation, error handling, logging, monitoring, validation, and alerting
- Be competent in writing well tested object-oriented python
- Have experience building ETL pipelines with tools such as Databricks
- Be highly numerate with advanced knowledge of data analysis modeling
- Be a strong communicator who can build positive relationships with stakeholders across the business at all levels
- Have a relevant business/technical experience and an appreciation of technology innovations and engineering techniques
- Be a team player who takes accountability for your role while working accurately and flexibly within a busy team
- Be experienced in programmatically deploying, scheduling, and monitoring components in a workflow
- Be adept in writing complex queries against relational and non-relational data stores
- Possess a good understanding of design choices for data storage and data processing, with a particular focus on cloud data services (ideally in Azure)
What’s in it for you?
Using data analytics and data flow, you will be improving efficiency, developing business insight, and driving good investment decisions. You will be working with like-minded people who want to make a difference to our customers.
Our competitive salary package includes an excellent contributory pension, 26 days holiday per year increasing to 30 with the length of service, and a wider benefits scheme.
We’re proud of the positive ways of working we have adopted during the pandemic. We want to create a more flexible and dynamic environment so all our colleagues can thrive. For our office-based roles, we are moving to a hybrid approach where we will provide options around working from our offices, our operational sites, and our home dependent on role/team/individual. This will be discussed during the assessment process.
Thames Water is a unique, rewarding, and diverse place to work. You’ll enjoy fast-tracked career opportunities, flexible working arrangements, and unparalleled benefits if you join our team. We’re also proud to be an equal opportunity employer, Stonewall Diversity Champion, and Disability Confident Leader and we are a Times Top 50 Employer for Women.
You can find out more in our working for us section of our website.