Overview
Position Title: Senior Data Engineer
Company: Zoopla
Location: Northampton, UK
Job Description:
At Zoopla we want to help everyone make intelligent home buying decisions. We are building a team that will have the once in a career opportunity to re-imagine an industry. We’re looking for a Senior Data Engineer to join our Data Analytics team.
Responsibilities:
- Working on design and development of our data platform which has been developed as a greenfield site on AWS over the last year
- Looking for new data sources to add or improving existing ones
- Enabling other teams to use the data from it in their products
- Managing tech debt and keeping technologies up to date – e.g. moving to event-based data ingest
- Mentoring and supporting more junior members of the team (currently 6 engineers at all levels, 1 data QA and an apprentice)
- Supporting cross-Zoopla data engineering initiatives led by the Principal Data Engineer, for example creation of standards, maintenance of tech radar and knowledge sharing
Requirements:
- A passionate engineer with previous commercial data engineering experience
- Comfortable working in a dynamic environment with a certain degree of uncertainty
- Comfortable working with SQL / NoSQL
- Comfortable learning new technologies, languages, and tools on the job, to ensure that the product is not left behind in a rapidly evolving ecosystem
- A positive, collaborative mindset and a desire to deliver real business value to the customer
- Experience using Amazon Web Services (e.g. Glue, Redshift, Lambda, Step Functions) (essential)
- Python (essential)
- Terraform (desirable)
- Spark (desirable)
- Docker / ECS / Kubernetes (desirable)
- Experience running machine learning pipelines in production (desirable)
About Zoopla
Hello, we’re Zoopla. We’re here to help people make intelligent decisions about their homes by digitising the home lifecycle.