Junior Applications Engineer

Circa £30,000 (Depending on Skills & Experience)  

12 month Secondment / FTC  

Fulltime, 37 hours per week. Flexible working available.  

Peterborough

Make every drop of your potential count!  

We’re looking for a Junior Applications Engineer to develop, maintain and enhance internal digital applications that support Anglian Water’s operational, safety and asset management processes. You’ll work with Power Apps, SAP-integrated tools, SQL/Oracle environments and internal systems to build intuitive, reliable solutions that streamline workflows and improve data quality across the business.  
  
You will play a key role in updating and maintaining our internal site asset data repository, ensuring accurate integration with SAP and our Health & Safety systems. This is an exciting opportunity for someone who enjoys solving problems with technology, engaging with users, and bringing ideas to life in a fastmoving operational environment.  

What you'll be doing  

• Develop, test and deploy Power Apps and internal applications that improve efficiency and support operational teams  

• Design robust back-end architecture for data storage and handling, ensure reliable integrations are in place between existing business system  

• Design and maintain backend data architecture using SQL/Oracle to ensure reliable integrations with SAP and other enterprise systems  

• Update and manage the internal site asset data repository, ensuring full synchronisation with SAP and Health & Safety systems  

• Troubleshoot, maintain and update existing business applications, delivering fixes and enhancements  

• Create dashboards to visualise operational data and support decisionmaking  

• Engage with stakeholders to gather requirements, understand user needs and support rollout of applications  

• Ensure all applications comply with AW data governance, cyber security and GDPR requirements  

What we’re looking for  

• Experience with Power Apps, lowcode/nocode platforms or application development and experience in reading other people’s code and editing as well as building apps from scratch.  

• Experience with SAP, SQL, Oracle or similar enterprise systems. 

• Microsoft knowledge in Power Automate.   

• Sharepoint and Dataverse knowledge to help support existing apps. Experience using SharePoint Lists and SharePoint permissions.  

•  High level of computer literacy and confidence working with new technical systems. 

• Ability to manipulate, analyse and present data clearly, Power Bi an advantage.  

• Strong communication skills with ability to adapt to user needs. 

• Ability to challenge, think differently and identify improvement opportunities  

• Understanding of Health & Safety considerations in digital and operational environments. 

• Experience implementing change through technology. 

• Knowledge or experience of creating relational databases.  

• Strong Excel skills.  

• Understanding of JSON.  

Benefits  

As a valued employee, you’ll be entitled to:  
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays (increasing with length of service)  
• Flexible working options  
• Private health care  
• Competitive pension scheme – Anglian Water double-matches your contributions up to 6%  
• Life assurance at eight times your salary  
• Annual bonus  

• Potential funded car allowance depending on evidenced business mileage   
• Personal medical assessments  
• Virtual GP service  
• Cancer screening  
• Financial wellbeing support and salary finance benefits  
• Lifestyle Savings including discounts on retail, travel, and utilities  
• Employee Assistance Programme  
• Volunteer days  
  
  

Inclusion at Anglian Water  

We’re committed to creating a workplace where everyone feels they belong. We’re proud signatories of the Social Mobility Pledge, Race at Work Charter, and Armed Forces Covenant, and we’re a Disability Confident employer.