Senior Data Engineer I (Data Platform)

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