Software Engineer – Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS)

Circa £40k – £45k, salary depending on skills and experience

Permanent

Full time, 37 hours a week

Hybrid working & Lincoln or Huntingdon Office

Anglian Water offers a flexible approach—this role provides you the flexibility to work from home and from an Anglian Water office. Your base location will either be in our Lincoln or Huntingdon office.

Join the Digital Transformation at Anglian Water!

We’re on an exciting journey in Digital Engineering, redefining our role from a traditional support function to a trusted, strategic partner. Our Digital Engineering practice works side by side with subject matter experts across the business to co-create user-centred, data-driven systems—like our Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS)—that boost performance and productivity. Using modern tech and agile thinking, we design, build, and evolve digital solutions that stay ahead of business needs and tech trends.

We don’t just deliver—we continuously improve, ensuring our digital solutions remain powerful, purposeful, and perfectly aligned with the future.

As a Software Engineer, you’ll be a vital member of one of our agile Digital Squads—small, cross-functional teams aligned to specific areas of the business. In this role, you’ll be instrumental in the evolution of our LIMS, a key system that supports water quality analysis, sample tracking, and regulatory compliance across our laboratory operations.

Our squads follow Agile Scrum and DevOps principles and work closely with Product Owners, Scrum Masters, UX/UI Designers, User Researchers, and other engineers. Collaboration is key, and you’ll also partner with key teams like Architecture, Security, and Service Operations to ensure what we build is secure, reliable, and aligned with organisational standards. Our goal? To deliver a robust, user-led LIMS that supports lab efficiency and data accuracy at scale.

What You’ll Be Doing

As a hands-on, agile Software Engineer, you’ll be responsible for delivering, maintaining, and evolving our Laboratory Information Management System. This includes everything from design and estimation to coding, cloud infrastructure management, and supporting the LIMS in production.

While you’ll typically work within your squad, there will be opportunities to lead on specific technical components of the LIMS and to enhance your personal skills and domain knowledge.

Day to day, you’ll:

• Manage your own workload using Kanban boards, staying focused and self-motivated
• Collaborate closely with your team to align on goals and priorities
• Contribute to retrospectives and help improve how we work, from tools to processes
• Advise and support Product Owners, translating laboratory and data requirements into scalable, efficient system features
• Own the detailed system design, ensuring best practices and engineering standards are met

Key Accountabilities

Systems Analysis, Design & Estimation

• Work with Product Owners, Architecture, Security, and Analysts to understand LIMS-specific user needs
• Create high-level designs, estimate development work, and define non-functional requirements (e.g. system uptime, sample tracking reliability, secure data handling)
• Act as a technical consultant on testing strategies and contribute to DevOps practices

Software Development & Support

• Design, build, and maintain LIMS modules and supporting cloud infrastructure
• Implement deployment strategies (CI/CD), maintain documentation, and support disaster recovery planning
• Lead on testing activities (TDD, BDD, automation), conduct code reviews, and provide third-line support for LIMS-related issues

Agile Ways of Working

• Actively contribute to Agile ceremonies
• Help refine the backlog and reduce technical debt within the LIMS codebase
• Promote a transparent, user-focused culture aligned with Scrum values and Anglian Water’s mission

What does it take to be a Software Engineer?

We’re looking for a proactive, solutions-focused Software Engineer who thrives in a collaborative, agile environment. You’ll bring a strong commitment to continuous improvement, problem-solving, and user-centric development—especially in the context of complex systems like a LIMS.

Key skills and attributes include:

• Advocate of Agile and continuous improvement
• Strong communicator able to explain technical issues to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Collaborative, influential, and skilled in stakeholder engagement
• Curious, self-motivated, and resilient
• Balances quality engineering with timely delivery
• Team-oriented with a supportive, coaching mindset

What you’ll bring:

• A degree or equivalent experience in software engineering or related discipline
• A solid track record in building scalable, reliable systems—ideally with some experience in laboratory, scientific, or highly regulated data domains
• Proficiency across a range of technologies: backend, frontend, cloud infrastructure, and possibly low-code platforms
• Proven engineering rigour and a pragmatic approach to delivery

As a valued employee, you’ll be entitled to:

• Full private healthcare with no excess
• 26 days leave, rising with service + Bank Holidays, with the option to swap Christmas and Easter holidays for those celebrated by your religion
• A flexible working culture
• Competitive pension scheme – we double-match your contributions up to 6%
• Life Assurance at eight times your salary
• Personal Accident cover – up to 5x your salary
• Bonus Scheme
• Lots of great discounts
• Flexible benefits to support your wellbeing and lifestyle
• Paid time off when you’re physically and mentally unwell
• An excellent Family Leave package – to help you support your family

Why Anglian Water?

Anglian Water is not your typical water company. Just take a look at our Love Every Drop strategy and you’ll start to get a feel for our culture. It’s collaborative, innovative and inspiring. We put people at the heart of our business and we truly love what we do!

If you want to help us embrace new technology and the power of people to keep us at the forefront of our industry—especially through critical systems like our LIMS—please apply today!

Closing date: 18th May 2025

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