Senior Data Engineer II — Lead AI Data Platform (Hybrid)

Rightmove; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private Medical Insurance

Pension

22–27 days holiday

Life insurance

Employee assistance plan

Discounts & deals

Hybrid work with 2 days in office

Job summary

Rightmove is seeking a Senior Data Engineer II to shape a scalable data platform for the UK’s largest property marketplace. You will influence architecture, own shared platform capabilities, and guide teams across data ingestion, processing, and analytics.

The role focuses on AI-assisted data engineering and high-impact data solutions. You will collaborate with Analytics Engineers, Data Scientists and ML Engineers to deliver reliable, production-grade systems and to drive the modernization of

Qualifications

• Significant leadership in data engineering or data platform roles.
• Strong architectural expertise across data ingestion, processing and storage.
• Experience with AI-native data engineering transitions and tooling.

Responsibilities

• Lead design and evolution of Rightmove's data platform for long-term scalability and performance.
• Own architecture and build of shared data ingestion, transformation, orchestration, and processing pipelines.

Skills

Data architecture

Python

SQL

dbt

Spark

Terraform

GCP

Cloud thinking

Leadership

Mentoring

Tools

dbt

Spark

Beam

Terraform

Airflow

Job description

Rightmove is seeking a Senior Data Engineer II to shape a scalable data platform for the UK’s largest property marketplace. You will influence architecture, own shared platform capabilities, and guide teams across data ingestion, processing, and analytics.

The role focuses on AI-assisted data engineering and high-impact data solutions. You will collaborate with Analytics Engineers, Data Scientists and ML Engineers to deliver reliable, production-grade systems and to drive the modernization of