Staff Data Engineer

Severn Trent

Staff Data Engineer at Severn Trent ensuring architectural designs translate into optimal low-level designs across data delivery streams. Focused on reducing risks and technical debt in data platforms.

Posted 7/11/2026full-timeCoventry • 🇬🇧 United KingdomLead💰 £NaN per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AzureCloudInformaticaSQLVault

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Provide early delivery design assurance, translating High Level Designs (HLDs) and approved patterns into delivery-ready Low Level Designs (LLDs).
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 Severn Trent’s data platforms and operating model.
Provide expert technical leadership, coaching engineers on best-practice patterns for data ingestion, transformation, storage, and serving.

Requirements

What you’ll need

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 (e.g. ADLS, ADF, Synapse, Databricks, Informatica, Azure SQL, Event Hub, 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.

Benefits

Comp & perks

28 days holiday + bank holidays (and the ability to buy/ sell up to 5 days per year)
Annual bonus scheme (of up to £2,225, which is subject to eligibility)
Family-friendly policies (including a year off fully paid maternity and adoption leave)
Leading pension scheme – we will double your contribution (up to 15% when you contribute 7.5%)
Sharesave – the chance to buy Severn Trent plc shares at a discounted rate
Dedicated training and development with our Academy
Electric vehicle scheme and retail offers
Two paid volunteering days per year

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Hard Skills & Tools

Low Level DesignData Platform DesignSQLData IngestionData TransformationData StorageData ServingDesign AssuranceArchitecture StandardsData Governance

Soft Skills

Clear CommunicationCollaborationCoachingProblem SolvingStakeholder Engagement