What you’ll be doing
as a Data Acquisition Lead
1. Lead and mentor a team of Data Engineers and Data BAs.
2. Own data ingestion pipelines from source systems into the Azure data lake.
3. Design and implement ETL/ELT processes using Azure Data Factory, Databricks, and PySpark.
4. Work with Data Architects and Data Scientists to prioritise and deliver required datasets.
5. Solve complex data integration challenges, including APIs and unstructured data.
6. Maintain data standards, documentation, and data quality across all pipelines.
7. Support analytics and BI teams with trusted, well‑engineered data flows.
Essential Skills & Experience
8. Extensive experience as a Data Engineer with leadership capability.
9. Strong Azure full‑stack experience, including: Azure Data Factory (expert) Azure Databricks administration (clusters, security, Delta Lake) ADLS Gen2 (permissions, structure, lifecycle) Azure DevOps (CI/CD for data pipelines)
10. Strong PySpark skills: writing scalable transformations, optimising Spark jobs, working with Delta Lake.
11. Excellent SQL and Python.
12. Experience with data warehousing and data modelling.
13. Strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills.
14. Understanding of data use within utilities (desirable).
What’s in it for you?
15. Competitive salary if up to £70,000 per annum depending on experience
16. Annual Leave - 26 days holiday per year increasing to 30 with the length of service (plus bank holidays)
17. Performance-related pay plan directly linked to company performance measures and targets
18. Generous Pension Scheme through AON
19. Access to lots of benefits to help you take care of you and your family’s health and wellbeing, and your finances – from annual health MOTs and access to physiotherapy and counselling, to Cycle to Work schemes, shopping vouchers and life assurance.