Senior Data Platform Engineer - Cloud, Pipelines & CI/CD

Rightmove; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 52,000 - 71,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Private medical insurance

Pension

Life insurance

Volunteer days

Employee assistance support

Discounts on travel, electronics, gym,

Bike to work scheme

Job summary

Rightmove is hiring for a data platform engineering leader in London. You will own end-to-end technical leadership for large-scale data platforms, shaping solutions with product teams and domain experts.

Requires deep experience in data pipelines, cloud infrastructure (GCP/CI/CD) and Terraform, with a proven ability to raise the team’s engineering standards and drive cross-functional delivery.

Qualifications

• We have a strong track record of delivering significant impact in data engineering or data platform engineering, with deep experience building and operating large-scale, cloud-based data platforms.
• We thrive in ambiguity, able to define the problem, identify the right technical approach, and drive complex cross-functional projects to completion without needing fully formed requirements.
• We are strong Python and SQL engineers, with mastery of software engineering fundamentals, and are able to raise the standard across the team.
• We have deep, hands-on experience with GCP or comparable cloud platforms and managing infrastructure as code with Terraform, and can influence how the team approaches cloud engineering.
• We have a track record of raising the technical bar across the team through introducing better practices, leading technical reviews, and driving engineering improvements.

Responsibilities

• We define the technical approach to our most complex and ambiguous data challenges, setting direction where others would wait for clarity.
• We own the end-to-end technical leadership of cross-functional projects, from shaping requirements with product owners to delivery.
• We design and build data platform infrastructure and internal tooling, contributing to architectural direction for data teams.
• We own the design and evolution of reusable batch and real-time data ingestion and processing frameworks.
• We manage infrastructure, security and code deployment with Terraform and CI/CD pipelines.
• We optimise performance, scalability, and cost efficiency of our data platform.
• We champion engineering best practices, include testing and observability, and support others through code reviews.
• We partner with engineers, data scientists, and analytics teams to enable self-service data workflows.

Skills

Data engineering

Cloud platforms

Python

SQL

GCP

Terraform

dbt

CI/CD

Data pipelines

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

dbt

GCP

Terraform

Job description

Rightmove is hiring for a data platform engineering leader in London. You will own end-to-end technical leadership for large-scale data platforms, shaping solutions with product teams and domain experts.

Requires deep experience in data pipelines, cloud infrastructure (GCP/CI/CD) and Terraform, with a proven ability to raise the team’s engineering standards and drive cross-functional delivery.