Senior Backend Engineer - Hybrid

About us

Come be a part of driving National Grid’s digital transformation! We are digital creators, continuous learners and daring innovators. We leverage digital innovative ways to create products and catalyze the transformation of National Grid's business units into more agile and digitally native organizations in our shared purpose of bringing energy to life. 

At National Grid, we keep the lights on and homes warm. But it’s so much more than that. We keep people connected and society moving. This is no easy feat, and it takes all of us. But National Grid supplies us with the environment to make it happen. As we generate momentum in the energy transition for all, we don’t plan on leaving any of our customers in the dark. So, 
join us and help bring energy to life. 

National Grid is hiring a Senior Backend Engineer for our Electricity Transmission department. This is a hybrid role based out of either Warwick or London.

Key Accountabilities

As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will be involved in the product development process from ideation to launch, working closely with software engineers, data scientists, product managers, UI/UX designers, and key stakeholders across the organization to deliver the best digital experiences for our users. You will actively contribute to the success of the team by innovating, participating in technical discussions, and contributing to the development of products that will transform the organization.

• Work closely with different disciplines and key stakeholders across the organization to deliver the best digital experiences for our user
• Write readable, idiomatic, secure, and maintainable code
• Implement data orchestration pipelines, data sourcing, cleansing, and QC processes
• Build observable and resilient systems
• Contribute to the engineering culture across the organisation (eg, innovation, process improvements, introduction of technologies, and mentorship)
• Maintain appropriate documentation
• Contribute to system design and architectural discussions
• Constructively challenge to improve processes and ways of working
• Support and mentor more junior engineers

About You

• Backend and data software development lifecycle experience
• Be driven to deliver software products that are of the highest quality and maintainability
• Experience developing integrations across multiple systems and APIs.
• Developed ETL/ELT workflows with a modern programming languages
• Experience using SQL queries as well as writing and perfecting SQL queries in a 
• business environment with large-scale, complex datasets.
• Ability to demonstrate having built solutions in cloud architectures
• Experience working autonomously and managing ambiguity
• Strong communication skills to effectively communicate with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Ability to solve problems creatively and effectively
• Experience working in an Agile / Scrum development process
• A breadth of knowledge across multiple technologies with a deep understanding of the following (or transferable skills from similar): Azure, Azure Data Factory, Microsoft SQL Server, Snowflake DB, and C#

More Information

A competitive salary between £65,000 – £80,000 – dependent on capability

As well as your base salary, you will receive a bonus of up to 15% of your salary for stretch performance and a competitive contributory pension scheme where we will double match your contribution to a maximum company contribution of 12%. You will also have access to a number of flexible benefits such as a share incentive plan, salary sacrifice car and technology schemes, support via employee assistance lines and matched charity giving to name a few.
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