Senior Data Engineer - Hometrack

Houseful; London; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative firm is looking for a Senior Data Engineer to enhance their customer reporting and analytics capabilities. This role involves developing efficient data management solutions using advanced technologies like Databricks and SQL, while ensuring compliance with GDPR. You will play a crucial part in transforming the mortgage journey for lenders and consumers by building scalable and secure data products. Join a dynamic team that values collaboration, continuous improvement, and a commitment to making the property industry more inclusive. This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to a mission-driven organization that champions diversity and innovation.

Benefits

Everyday Flex

25 days annual leave

Day off for volunteering

Digital detox day

Festive Closure

Cycle to work scheme

Electric car scheme

Free Calm App membership

Enhanced Parental leave

Private medical insurance

Qualifications

• Experience leading teams to achieve technical and commercial goals.
• Strong coding skills with a focus on maintainability and testing.

Responsibilities

• Build and optimize data pipelines for performance and efficiency.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver data products.

Skills

Databricks

Delta Lake

Lakehouse architecture

ETL processes

Pandas

SQL

PySpark

cloud networking principles

GDPR compliant architecture

data visualization tools

Tools

PowerBI

Tableau

Metabase

Job description

Hybrid working pattern - 2 days per week from London Bridge Office

Hometrack is seeking an experienced Senior Data Engineer to join our product team to help us deliver Hometrack's customer reporting and analytics data visualisation layer. By building new experiences to showcase our AVM and Mortgage Operations product performance and the effectiveness of their decision strategy we're helping lenders increase how many automated property risk decisions they make, driving operational efficiencies and a better consumer experience.

At Hometrack we are redefining the mortgage journey for lenders, brokers, and consumers by providing the market-leading digital valuation, property risk decisioning, and property data service. Our key commercial and go-to market segment is financial services, primarily mortgage lenders, including nine of the top 10 mortgage providers.

Come help us select and develop the technology that will help Hometrack evolve from where we are to where we want to be.

What we're looking for in a Senior Data Engineer:

• Have experience leading your team to make good technical decisions to enable commercial goals
• Be accountable for team outcomes, playing your part in achieving team goals and ensuring your contribution positively impacts overall success
• Be a continual improver, looking for ways to help the team do better and be better, again and again
• Write maintainable, testable code and enjoy providing code reviews
• Be experienced with Databricks, Delta Lake and Lakehouse architecture for efficient data management; experience with ETL processes and optimizing data pipelines for performance
• Be strong in Pandas, SQL, and PySpark
• Have a strong understanding of cloud networking principles, including Azure Virtual Networks, Private Endpoints, secure connectivity strategies
• Have experience or knowledge with GDPR compliant architecture
• Have experience with data visualization tools such as PowerBI, Tableau, or Metabase
• Be passionate about building data products for stakeholders and customers, ensuring they are stable, scalable, secure, accurate, observable, and performant
• Enjoy collaborating closely with colleagues in Product, Analytics, Security, and Software, explaining technical concepts to non-technical audiences
  
  

We want our new joiners to relate to and champion our Houseful behaviours:

• Build Together: you collaborate, you support and mentor colleagues
• Set the Bar Higher: with your professional experience and personal passion
• Know your Audience: you're driven to solve customer problems
• Own It: comfortable in a dynamic environment, with a degree of uncertainty
• Re-imagine: comfortable learning new technologies and tools on the job
  
  

Our mission is to make Houseful more welcoming, fair and representative every day.

All qualified applicants will be considered for employment regardless of ethnicity, colour, nationality, religion, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, age, disability, neurodiversity, family or parental status, or time unemployed. We're re-imagining the property industry to make it work for everyone, so we actively welcome applications from demographics that are underrepresented in technology.

Benefits

• Everyday Flex - greater flexibility over where and when you work
• 25 days annual leave + extra days for years of service
• Day off for volunteering & Digital detox day
• Festive Closure - business closed for a period between Christmas and New Year
• Cycle to work and electric car schemes
• Free Calm App membership
• Enhanced Parental leave
• Fertility Treatment Financial Support
• Group Income Protection and private medical insurance
• Gym on-site in London
• 7.5% pension contribution by the company
• Discretionary annual bonus up to 10% of base salary
• Talent referral bonus up to £5K

Seniority level

• Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Non-profit Organizations and Primary and Secondary Education