Data Engineer (Platform)
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IT business analysts, architects and systems designers
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£54,900
(£28.15 per hour)
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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.
Role: Data Engineer (Data Platform)
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 Engineer & 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 work on the systems and infrastructure that ingest, process,
and serve data across Rightmove. This is a hands-on engineering role, where you
will be responsible for the infrastructure, tooling, and best practices that power
our data ecosystem, including data ingestion, orchestration, storage, and
developer experience for data producers and consumers.
You will work with a modern GCP based data platform, designing reusable
patterns and tools, writing robust Python and SQL, and deploying infrastructure
with Terraform to ensure our platform and is reliable, secure, and efficient.
This is an opportunity to join an inclusive, tight knit, high calibre engineering
culture. Deepen your technical experience with a modern GCP stack and apply
your data engineering expertise to a platform used by millions every day.
What You’ll Be Doing
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.
Role: Data Engineer (Data Platform)
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 Engineer & 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 work on the systems and infrastructure that ingest, process,
and serve data across Rightmove. This is a hands-on engineering role, where you
will be responsible for the infrastructure, tooling, and best practices that power
our data ecosystem, including data ingestion, orchestration, storage, and
developer experience for data producers and consumers.
You will work with a modern GCP based data platform, designing reusable
patterns and tools, writing robust Python and SQL, and deploying infrastructure
with Terraform to ensure our platform and is reliable, secure, and efficient.
This is an opportunity to join an inclusive, tight knit, high calibre engineering
culture. Deepen your technical experience with a modern GCP stack and apply
your data engineering expertise to a platform used by millions every day.
What You’ll Be Doing
- Design and build data platform infrastructure and internal tooling to
- enable teams to work more effectively with data
- Build and improve reusable batch and real-time data ingestion and processing frameworks that ingest, transform, and serve data across the business
- Manage infrastructure and code deployment with Terraform
- CI/CD pipelines
- Optimise performance, scalability, and cost efficiency of our data platform
- Promote and practice excellent data and cloud engineering best practices, including testing, documentation, and observability
- Work on complex data challenges, balancing short-term delivery with long-term platform evolution
- Collaborate with data product owners and stakeholders to collect and refine data requirements
- Work with engineers, data scientists and analytics teams to enable self-service data workflows and support their use cases
- Has 3-5 years of proven experience in data engineering or data platform engineering within a large-scale, cloud-based data platform
- Has strong Python and SQL programming skills
- Has demonstrable experience with cloud platforms (GCP, AWS or Azure), and managing infrastructure using Terraform
- Has experience building and orchestrating production-grade data pipelines (ingress/egress)
- Understands data storage and data modelling principles and best practices (e.g., dbt)
- Has experience building and managing CI/CD pipelines for data and infrastructure
- Has experience implementing testing, monitoring, and alerting
- Has knowledge of GDPR and data security best practices
- Communicates well and is comfortable leading and contributing to design decisions and technical discussions
- Is curious, proactive, and enjoys learning about new technologies
- Enjoys collaborating in cross-functional teams
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
If all of 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
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.
If all of 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.
- Hybrid working pattern with 2 days in the office.
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.
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