# Senior Data Engineer I (Data Platform) [Rightmove](https://gurify.com/jobs?q=Rightmove) · London, United Kingdom · Posted 2 weeks ago Senior [Data](https://gurify.com/jobs/data) [Apply on the original posting → (opens in a new tab)](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/rightmovecareers/jobs/4933727101) ## Job description Our vision is to give everyone the belief they can make their move. We aim to make moving simpler, by giving everyone the best place to turn to and return to for access to the tools, expertise, trust, and belief to make it happen. We’re home to the UK’s largest choice of properties and are the go-to destination for millions of people planning their next move, reading the latest industry news, or just browsing what’s on the market. ### Location: London office / Hybrid (2 days per week in the office) ### Reporting to: Data Engineering Manager ### The Role Millions of people visit the Rightmove website every month. We have a huge amount of data about how people use the site, and what this means to our customers. You’ll be joining our growing Data Engineering & Infrastructure team, a collaborative, high-performing group of engineers that uses this data to build the infrastructure that powers the UK’s favourite property site. In this role, you will take ownership of the systems and infrastructure that ingest, process, and serve data across Rightmove. You will be responsible for the infrastructure, tooling, and engineering practices that power our data ecosystem, including data ingestion, orchestration, storage, and the developer experience for data producers and consumers. You will bring strong hands-on expertise to our GCP-based data platform, design reusable patterns and tools, write robust Python and SQL, and deploy infrastructure with Terraform, while influencing the standards and technical decisions that the wider data engineering team works to. As a Senior Data Engineer, you will be a technical leader and multiplier within the data platform team. You will own the infrastructure, frameworks, and internal tooling that power Rightmove’s data ecosystem. You will contribute to the technical direction for how data is ingested, processed, and served across the business, and consistently apply and promote engineering best practices that raise the quality of the team’s work. Join an inclusive and collaborative engineering culture where you'll work alongside talented engineers, tackle complex technical challenges, and continue to grow your skills. You'll leverage a modern GCP stack and apply your data engineering expertise to build products and services used by millions across the UK every day. ### What You’ll Be Doing - Define the technical approach to our most complex and ambiguous data challenges, setting direction where others would wait for clarity, making high-quality architectural decisions, and ensuring the right trade-offs are made for the long-term health of the platform - Own the end-to-end technical leadership of cross-functional projects, from shaping requirements with product owners and domain teams through to delivery. Take accountability for outcomes, not just the engineering contribution - Design and build data platform infrastructure and internal tooling, contributing to the architectural direction for how teams across Rightmove work with data - Own the design and evolution of reusable batch and real-time data ingestion and processing frameworks, ensuring they are reliable, scalable, and serve the needs of teams across the business - Manage infrastructure, security and code deployment with Terraform and CI/CD pipelines - Optimise performance, scalability, and cost efficiency of our data platform - Champion engineering best practices across the team, including testing, documentation, and observability, share knowledge and support others through code reviews and technical discussions, helping raise the bar and embed standards in how the team works - Partner with engineers, data scientists, and analytics teams to enable self-service data workflows, acting as a technical enabler and setting the patterns others follow ### We're Looking For Someone Who - Has a strong track record of delivering significant impact in data engineering or data platform engineering, with deep experience building and operating large-scale, cloud-based data platforms - Thrives in ambiguity, able to define the problem, identify the right technical approach, and drive complex cross-functional projects to completion without needing fully formed requirements - Is a strong Python and SQL engineer, with mastery of software engineering fundamentals, and is able to raise the standard across the team - Has deep, hands-on experience with GCP (or comparable cloud platforms) and managing infrastructure as code with Terraform, and can influence how the team approaches cloud engineering - Has a strong track record of designing, building, and operating production-grade data pipelines and real-time processing frameworks at scale - Has built and managed CI/CD pipelines for data and infrastructure, and can lead the team in adopting reliable, automated deployment practices - Has a track record of raising the technical bar across the team through introducing better practices, leading technical reviews, and driving engineering improvements that outlast individual projects - Has knowledge of GDPR and data security best practices - Understands data storage, data modelling principles, best practices and tools (e.g. dbt) - Communicates with clarity and confidence, able to lead design discussions, articulate technical trade-offs to non-technical stakeholders, and build alignment across teams - Is curious, self-directed, and proactive, identifying problems before they are assigned, and drives improvements to the platform without being asked ### About Rightmove Our vision is to give everyone the belief that they can make their move. We aim to make moving simpler by giving everyone the best place to turn to and return to for access to the tools, expertise, trust and belief to make it happen. We're home to the UK's largest choice of properties, and are the go-to destination for millions of people planning their next move, reading the latest industry news, or just browsing what's on the market. Despite this growth, we’ve remained a friendly, supportive place to work, with employee #1 still working here! We’ve done this by placing the Rightmove Hows at the heart of everything we do. These are the essential values that reflect our culture, and include: - We create value…by delivering results and building trust with partners and consumers. - We think bigger…by acting with curiosity and setting bold aspirations. - We care deeply…by being real, having fun, and valuing diversity. - We move together…by being one team - internally collaborative, externally competitive. - We make a difference…by focusing on delivering measurable impact. We believe in careers that open doors and help our team develop by providing an open and inclusive work environment, offering ongoing training opportunities, and supporting charity fundraising events. And with 88% of Rightmovers saying we’re a great place to work, we’re clearly doing something right! If all this has caught your eye, you may well be a Rightmover in the making... People are the foundation of Rightmove - We’ll help you build a career on it. ### What we offer - Cash plan for dental, optical and physio treatments. - Private Medical Insurance, Pension and Life Insurance, Employee Assistance Plan. - 27 days holiday plus two (paid) volunteering days a year to give back, and holiday buy schemes. - Contributory stakeholder pension. - Life assurance at 4x your basic salary to a spouse, family member or other nominated person in your life. - Competitive compensation package. - Paid leave for maternity, paternity, adoption & fertility. - Travel Loans, Bike to Work scheme, Rental Deposit Loan. - Charitable contributions through Payroll Giving and donation matching. - Access deals and discounts on things like travel, electronics, fashion, gym memberships, cinema discounts and more. - We offer hybrid working with a minimum of 2 days in the office. For our roles, such as Field or Home-based positions, different working arrangements apply - full details will be shared during the recruitment process. ### As an Equal Opportunity Employer, Rightmove will never discriminate based on age, disability, sex, race, religion or belief, gender reassignment, marriage / civil partnership, pregnancy/maternity or sexual orientation. At Rightmove, we believe that a diverse and inclusive workforce leads to better innovation, productivity, and overall success., We are committed to creating a welcoming and inclusive environment for all employees, regardless of their background or identity, to develop and promote a diverse culture that reflects the communities we serve. ### By applying, you confirm that you are aged at least 18 or over and that you’ve read and understood our Privacy Policy, which explains how we handle and protect your personal information during the recruitment process. **Live in Rightmove’s hiring system.** Read from the company's own applicant tracking system, not reposted from a job board — so it's a real, open requisition rather than an ad that outlived the role. 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