Rightmove
Senior Data Engineer I (Data Platform)
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- London, United Kingdom
- Work setup
- Hybrid
- Seniority
- Senior
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- Not specified
- Category
- Data engineering
- Posted
Skills
Full description
Overview
In this role you will own and shape Rightmove’s data platform, focusing on ingestion, processing and serving data at scale on a modern GCP stack. You’ll lead cross-functional data projects, build reusable tooling, and promote engineering best practices in a collaborative data engineering culture. You will drive architectural decisions, improve performance and cost efficiency, and empower teams with reliable data workflows. This is an impact-driven opportunity to help a widely-used property tech platform deliver data-driven insights at scale.
Pay / Benefits
- Private Medical Insurance
- Pension and Life Insurance
- 27 days holiday + volunteering days
- Hybrid working (minimum 2 days in office)
- Life assurance 4x salary
- Travel Loans
Responsibilities
- Define technical direction for complex data challenges with high impact
- Lead end-to-end cross-functional data projects from requirements to delivery
- Design and build data platform infrastructure and internal tooling
- Evolve reusable batch and real-time data ingestion and processing frameworks
- Manage infrastructure, security and deployment with Terraform and CI/CD
- Optimize performance, scalability, and cost of the data platform
- Champion engineering best practices including testing, documentation and observability
- Partner with engineers, data scientists and analytics to enable self-service data workflows
Key requirements
- Strong track record delivering data engineering or data platform initiatives at scale
- Ability to operate in ambiguity and drive cross-functional projects to completion
- Proficiency in Python and SQL
- Deep hands-on experience with GCP and Terraform
- Experience designing and operating production-grade data pipelines and real-time processing
- Experience building CI/CD pipelines for data and infrastructure
- Track record of elevating technical standards through reviews and improvements
- Knowledge of GDPR and data security best practices
- Understanding of data storage, modeling principles and tools (e.g. dbt)
- Clear, confident communication and stakeholder alignment
- Curious, self-directed, proactive approach
- Clear communication
- Collaboration within cross-functional teams
- Proactivity and initiative
- GCP
- Terraform
- Python