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.