Senior Data Engineer

Salary: £52,000 - 71,000 per year

Requirements:

• Significant technical leadership in data engineering or data platform engineering roles, with a track record of leading complex technical initiatives to completion without needing fully formed requirements
• Strong architectural expertise across modern data and AI platforms, including data ingestion, processing, storage, and transformation
• Experience transitioning to an AI-native data engineering landscape
• Strong Python and SQL engineering experience with dbt, Spark, and Terraform
• Strong experience working with GCP or a comparable cloud platform, Infrastructure as Code, and CI/CD practices
• Deep understanding of data storage and modelling principles, including dimensional modelling, lakehouse patterns, and the governance and operational setup of tools like dbt
• Experience applying data security and GDPR principles in platform-level architectural decisions
• Experience building and operating production-scale data pipelines, balancing performance, reliability, and cost efficiency
• A collaborative leadership style, with the ability to influence technical direction, mentor others, and build alignment across teams
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Proactive in exploring how AI can support your own workflow and productivity, with curiosity and an open mind

Responsibilities:

• Lead the design and evolution of our data platform, making key architectural decisions that support long-term scalability, reliability, and performance
• Own the architecture, design, and build of shared platform capabilities for data ingestion, transformation, orchestration, and processing across batch and real-time workloads
• Own the integration strategy across tools such as dbt, Spark, and Beam
• Lead the implementation and adoption of data quality, observability, security, testing, and deployment, including creating and sharing standards
• Partner closely with Analytics Engineers, Data Scientists, ML Engineers, and product teams to ensure platform capabilities solve real-world problems
• Evaluate and introduce new technologies, helping the business adopt modern approaches to data engineering and AI-powered workflows, agents, and automations
• Contribute to the data platform roadmap, identifying opportunities for improvement and influencing future investment decisions
• Take ownership of growing the teams technical capability through mentoring, structured feedback, and leading by example, and help engineers at all levels develop

Technologies:

• AI
• CI/CD
• Cloud
• GCP
• Support
• Machine Learning
• Python
• SQL
• Security
• Spark
• Terraform
• dbt

More:

We are Rightmove, home to the UKs largest choice of properties and the go-to destination for millions of people planning their next move, reading the latest industry news, or browsing whats on the market. Our vision is to give everyone the belief they can make their move, and we aim to make moving simpler by giving people the best place to turn to and return to for tools, expertise, trust, and belief. This Senior Data Engineer II role is based in London with hybrid working, requiring 2 days per week in the office, and reports to the Data Engineering Manager. You will help shape the future of data at Rightmove, working on platform capabilities that support analytics, machine learning, AI initiatives, and data-driven decision-making at scale. We offer a friendly, supportive, open, and inclusive workplace with ongoing training, charity fundraising support, and a wide range of benefits including private medical insurance, pension, life insurance, 27 days holiday plus volunteering days, travel loans, bike to work, payroll giving, and more.

last updated 35 week of 2026