Lead Data Engineer
Added 6 Oct · still live
Likely
Sponsorship likelihood
This employer has issued visas recently
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Salary
Pro sees the advertised pay
£54,700
Going rate
Skilled Worker going rate
This role likely qualifies for a Skilled Worker visa
SOC 2134 (71% match) is an eligible occupation, with a going rate of £54,700, and National Grid is a licensed sponsor. That is our reading of the rules. Whether they issue a Certificate of Sponsorship is still their call.
This could also be SOC 3544 (Data analysts) or SOC 2133 (IT business analysts, architects and systems designers). We read the code off the advert, so it is our best guess, not the employer's.
Your salary route
New graduate or PhD holder? Pick one of the lower rates.
What each route needs for this job
| Occupation code | New entrant 70% of going rate | STEM PhD 80% of going rate | Relevant PhD 90% of going rate | Standard rate 100% of going rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
2134 Programmers and software development professionals Most likely code | £38,300 Clears | £43,700 Clears | £49,200 Clears | £54,700 Clears |
3544 Data analysts Also possible | £33,400 Clears | £41,700 Clears | £41,700 Clears | £41,700 Clears |
2133 IT business analysts, architects and systems designers Also possible | £38,400 Clears | £43,900 Clears | £49,400 Clears | £54,900 Clears |
We use the lowest threshold across the plausible codes. Likelihood is Possible at most when the pay clears only a lower rate, or only under a less likely code. A mark is for the top of the advertised pay. How the Home Office picks the code
About the role
About Us
At National Grid, we keep people connected and society moving. But it’s so much more than that. National Grid provides the environment, support, and purpose that enable us to make real impact. As we drive momentum in the energy transition for all, we’re committed to ensuring none of our customers are left in the dark.
This role operates under a hybrid working model and is based out of the Warwick, UK office. Hybrid work expectations are subject to business needs and company policy.
About The Role
To work with Electricity Transmission to deliver actionable insight that drives business performance. Collaborating with key stakeholders the Associate Data Developer will work to understand key business challenges, help determine the most impactful insight and translate this into business requirements. They will support the management of insight delivery across the full software lifecycle — including development, testing, CI/CD and deployment, consider the business readiness for insight implementation and undertake necessary engagement to ensure insights drive action and are continuously improved. The role combines strong analytical capability with practical experience of building data products and dashboards on cloud platforms (particularly Azure).
What You'll Do
At National Grid, we keep people connected and society moving. But it’s so much more than that. National Grid provides the environment, support, and purpose that enable us to make real impact. As we drive momentum in the energy transition for all, we’re committed to ensuring none of our customers are left in the dark.
This role operates under a hybrid working model and is based out of the Warwick, UK office. Hybrid work expectations are subject to business needs and company policy.
About The Role
To work with Electricity Transmission to deliver actionable insight that drives business performance. Collaborating with key stakeholders the Associate Data Developer will work to understand key business challenges, help determine the most impactful insight and translate this into business requirements. They will support the management of insight delivery across the full software lifecycle — including development, testing, CI/CD and deployment, consider the business readiness for insight implementation and undertake necessary engagement to ensure insights drive action and are continuously improved. The role combines strong analytical capability with practical experience of building data products and dashboards on cloud platforms (particularly Azure).
What You'll Do
- Understanding of data fabric, lake and warehousing principles and full project involvement in one or more major technology platforms, e.g. Snowflake, Azure etc.
- Development of the Extract Transform Load (ETL) for the relevant data insights platform
- Working in partnership with ET teams, across the relevant areas of ET data to undertake advanced data mining and manipulation to understand the quality and completeness of data to advise and define key changes to technology architecture & data models to facilitate performance measurement & business insight.
- Lead the development of new installations and patches for the relevant insight platform and support upstream system developers and downstream stakeholders
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- Demonstrable evidence of delivering business benefits through data products and dashboards, from requirements through to deployed solutions and operational support.
- Proven experience designing and operating CI/CD for data platforms and analytics applications (pipeline automation, test automation, release orchestration).
- Practical familiarity with software development life-cycle practices (version control, code review, unit and integration testing, release management).
- Experience or demonstrable understanding of agentic LLM or automation frameworks, or experience integrating automated agents safely into production workflows.
- Knowledge of ORM database concepts and experience applying them in data models and service layers.
- Strong analytics and dashboarding experience (Power BI required; experience producing actionable dashboards and optimising UX for decision making).
- Hands-on experience building data products using Snowflake and/or Azure (Synapse, ADLS, Azure SQL, Azure Data Factory) and operationalising these on Azure.
Competitive Salary: circa £65,000 – £80,000 per annum (based on capability and experience)
This description is the source posting as it read when we added it. We are not affiliated with National Grid, so check their own site for the current details.
Where this offer sits in the market
Programmers and software development professionals (SOC 2134) · UK · ONS ASHE 2025 · basic pay · ~399k in sampleSOC 2134
- Middle half £42,536–76,752
- Median £56,784
- Going rate £54,700
- Threshold £41,700
- New entrant £38,300–49,200
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Does this job guarantee visa sponsorship?
Not necessarily. National Grid holds a sponsor licence, but sponsorship for a specific hire is always the employer's decision. Be upfront in your application that you'll require it.
What salary is needed for this role to be eligible?
The offer must clear both the general threshold and the SOC 2134 going rate of £54,700. New-entrant and shortage discounts can lower it.