Hybrid - 2 days on site in London, Tower Bridge HQ

At Houseful, we’re here to help everyone make intelligent decisions about their home

Do the best work of your life!

Houseful is home to trusted brands Zoopla, Alto, Hometrack, Calcasa, Mojo and Prime location.  Together were creating the connections that power better property decisions, by unlocking the combined strength of software, data and insight.

We make moves with head and heart to achieve our big ambitions, and to drive progress in the property market.  There’s never been a better time to join us.

Zoopla is one of the most recognised and loved UK consumer property brands. Our mission is to connect everyone to their home and give them better choices around it, whether moving, managing or financing. Over 60 million people visit Zoopla every month to access comprehensive data and information on every UK property, search over 500,000 homes for sale and rent, find the best agents and secure the latest mortgage deals. Zoopla is part of Houseful, the leader in residential property software, data and insight, and is sister brand to Hometrack, Alto and Mojo among others.

At Zoopla we know what a home is really worth, but more importantly we know how it should make you feel. Since 2008 we’ve been helping to make a house a home, and supporting you every step of the way. Our market-leading data means we’ve always got our finger on the pulse, and you’ll want to be a part of it! 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

As a Data Engineering Manager at Houseful:

• You will be responsible for coaching and leading a team of 7 data engineers and 3 analytics engineers.
• The role is focused on people, managing a host of stakeholders across the organisation, understanding people’s needs and ensuring the team have everything, both for work and personal development.
• The team has a good mixture of senior and mid level engineers where you will be looking to foster everyone’s individual career path and elevate the more junior members through collaborative ways of working.
• You’ll enjoy the challenge of working at the centre of a data mesh with numerous stakeholders of differing skill levels, ensuring they can contribute and extract maximum value from the platform.
• Balance the strategic with the tactical to push the data platform forward at the same time as meeting daily business unit needs.

Requirements

• You have demonstrable experience of 2 years in leading and influencing teams and organisations. You are well versed in coaching and performance management, both taking engineers through promotion, as well as having difficult conversations to ensure high standards are met. 
• You have strong communication and stakeholder management skills, with an ability to communicate complex technical topics to non-technical stakeholders.
• You appreciate simplicity over complexity and understand when to navigate between both.
• Previous hands-on experience with AWS is desirable, along with strong experience in designing and implementing real-time modern data stacks.
• You are well versed in seeing the value of raw data and turning it into valuable data products for the business
• You will come from a strong data engineering background having worked with several data warehouses/lakes/lakehouses and accompanying query languages.
• Familiar with various data orchestration tools and approaches and comfortable discussing the merits of each.
• Experienced in making build vs buy decisions to balance operational costs with team bandwidth.

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 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