Junior Applications Engineer

Job Description

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.

Closing Date: 29/3/26

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