Full-time or part-time

Data Acquisition Lead

Posted by Thames Water • Reading, England, United Kingdom

📍 Reading, England 🕒 January 24, 2026

About the Role

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, documentation, and data quality across all pipelines.

  • Support analytics and BI teams with trusted, well‑engineered data flows.
  • Essential Skills & Experience

  • Extensive experience as a Data Engineer with leadership capability.

  • Strong Azure full‑stack experience, including: Azure Data Factory (expert)
    Azure Databricks administration (clusters, security, De...
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