About this role
Salary: £29,000 - 69,000 per year
Requirements: Extensive experience designing and reviewing low-level designs for modern data platforms in Azure.Deep, hands-on experience using Databricks as a primary data engineering platform.Strong understanding of cloud data services, including ADLS, ADF, Synapse, Databricks, Informatica, Azure SQL, Event Hub, and Key Vault.Experience working in matrix or federated models, including dotted-line support to local delivery hubs.Strong SQL skills and confidence working across raw, curated, and consumer-ready data layers.Clear, concise communication with the ability to explain design rationale and trade-offs to technical and non-technical stakeholders.This is an individual contributor role; where operationally helpful, the role may include limited line management of engineers to support development and performance management. Responsibilities: Provide early delivery design assurance, translating High Level Designs and approved patterns into delivery-ready Low Level Designs.Ensure designs align with architecture standards, data governance requirements, security controls, and platform guardrails.Drive solutions that are fit for purpose, operable, maintainable, and aligned to business outcomes, balancing value, risk, and reusability.Act as the first-line design assurance function, escalating only material variances and strategic decisions to Architecture.Own the quality and operability of delivery designs across both incumbent and emerging data platforms.Operate across data trains, hub teams, mid-tier demand, and small change deliveries, driving consistency in design approaches and engineering practices.Identify and promote reuse opportunities, reducing duplication and preventing unnecessary divergence across teams.Collaborate with Senior Data Engineers to shape solutions that are optimal for our data platforms and operating model.Provide expert technical leadership, coaching engineers on best-practice patterns for data ingestion, transformation, storage, and serving. Technologies: AzureCloudDatabricksInformaticaSupportMatrixSQLSecurityLESSPLC More:
We are Severn Trent, and our people are at the heart of everything we do. We are in the top 5% of utility companies worldwide for employee engagement and are proud of our strong Glassdoor score, reflecting how much our people love working here. Join us to make a positive impact on the environment and our communities while being valued and supported in a truly inclusive workplace. We are looking for a Staff Data Engineer to join our dedicated Data Engineering team of 14, based at our Severn Trent Centre head office in Coventry, working 37 hours a week, Monday to Friday. We value in-person moments to keep our culture alive, but working from home is supported when you need it. We offer award-winning training and benefits including 28 days holiday plus bank holidays, an annual bonus scheme, family-friendly policies, a leading pension scheme, Sharesave, dedicated training and development with our Academy, an electric vehicle scheme, retail offers, and two paid volunteering days per year.
last updated 36 week of 2026