Data Acquisition Lead

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, ...