full time

Data Acquisition Lead

Posted by Thames Water • Reading, England, United Kingdom

📍 Reading, England 🕒 January 28, 2026

About the Role

Thames Water is looking for a Data Acquisition Lead to manage the team responsible for ingesting and integrating data from core business systems into our Azure-based Enterprise Data Platform. You’ll lead a team of Data Engineers and Data Business Analysts, own the end‑to‑end acquisition process, and ensure high‑quality, reliable data pipelines that power analytics across the organisation.

What you’ll be doing as a Data Acquisition Lead
  • Lead and mentor a team of Data Engineers and Data BAs.
  • Own data ingestion pipelines from source systems into the Azure data lake.
  • Design and implement ETL/ELT processes using Azure Data Factory, Databricks, and PySpark.
  • Work with Data Architects and Data Scientists to prioritise and deliver required datasets.
  • Solve complex data integration challenges, including APIs and unstructured data.
  • Maintain data standards, ...

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