Software Engineer - Open Data

Closing Date

2024-12-08

Job Title: Software Engineer – Open Data

Location: Durrington (Worthing) Hybrid Flexible

Contract Type: Permanent

Hours: 37 hours a week (Part time 30 hours, considered)

Salary: Up to £60,000

There has never been a better time to join our organisation as we build towards a greener future, tackling climate change, minimising our environmental impact, and reducing our carbon footprint!

With the introduction of Open Data initiatives and Stream, we are creating a new team here within our Digital Department to comply to these new regulations, so you’ll be joining at a great time, to really ‘put your stamp’ on how this team will evolve.

Working in a close-knit team of 3, including a Data Engineer and the Data Lead, you will be ultimately responsible for ensuring the data we need to share, makes it to the platforms and environments it needs to be on.

This is mostly front-end work, but an understanding or some exposure to back end would give you an advantage in this role.

Job Overview

In this role, you will have full responsibility for ensuring connectivity to the Stream suite (Azure) and other approved applications. You will be creating API’s to allow Stream to pull the data effectively. You may also get involved with internal teams for the release of any relevant data relating to this project on our company website.

Day To Day You’ll Be Responsible For

• Ensuring Stream has connectivity to access relevant data
• Ensuring all relevant data is available and secure
• Building and maintaining bespoke applications and API builds
• Creating, maintaining, auditing, and improving systems to meet specific needs
• Testing both hard and software systems to diagnose and resolve system faults
• Writing operational documentation
  
  

About You

To be suitable for this role, you will have a good grasp of front-end Software Engineering with some creativity and flare for making this role your own. You will ideally have some solid experience in a Software Engineering, however we will also take applications from graduates with a relevant degree and a keen interest in keeping abreast of the latest technology.

You Will Have Knowledge Of

• Javascript, HTML, Python, Java, SQL
• Building Apps
• Building APIs in cloud native tooling
• Writing and testing code
• Researching, designing, and writing new software programs
  
  

You Will Also Have

• Strong process and analytical skills
• Ability to build solutions to combine from multiple different sources and generate data
• Software engineering skills, also to include familiarity with several programming languages, cloud native technology (Azure) and knowledge of machine learning data requirements
• Communication skills to enable you to work with internal stakeholders and understand requirements
• Ability to work as part of a team and work to deadlines
  
  

Package

This role will be full time Monday to Friday with a hybrid approach to working between our Durrington office and home, what that looks like if flexible for the right candidate. This is a full-time role, but 30 hours part time will also be considered.

Benefits

We are offering a salary of up to £60,000 per annum depending on skills and experience as well as other benefits including:

• Generous pension up to 11% company contribution
• 25 days annual leave
• Life assurance equal to 4x salary
• Salary sacrifice electric car scheme (after 6 months service)
• Health Cash Plan
• Full funded eye tests
• Two paid volunteering days a year
• Occupational health service
• Discounts with over 800 popular retailers
• Digital GP service
• Study support may be available for job-related qualifications
• Competitive maternity leave and flexible return to work options
• Cycle to work scheme
  
  

Join our Data & Analytics team and see how far your career could progress with a company committed to career progression, training and development opportunities, our customers and the environment.

Does this opportunity excite you but you’re not 100% sure if you meet all the requirements for the role? Or are you concerned that ‘normal’ office hours aren’t possible given your personal circumstances? Whilst we can’t accommodate every flexible working request, we’ll try to find a practical solution. So why not engage with us and find out more about this role?

If this role isn’t quite what you’re looking for but are keen to be contacted about opportunities at Southern Water, you can register your details here: Introduce Yourself (myworkdaysite.com)

Our customers are at the heart of everything we do, because delivering water for life is our core purpose. To achieve this, we need 24/7 support in place to resolve incidents quickly and efficiently. All our employees understand the importance of out-of-hours incident support – because when problems appear, fixing them is our top priority. That’s why our people join together and support when and however needed to make sure our customers get the service they deserve. Joining the Southern Water family means you’ll become part of our incident support team. During your interview, your manager will speak to you about any incident support rotas that apply to your position.

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