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In fact, we’re known and loved by over 91% of the nation (and we’re working hard on the other 9%). Our mission is to help the nation make better home decisions - by connecting everyone to their home and giving them personalised insights to help with moving, managing or financing. Over 50 million people visit Zoopla every month to access exclusive 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.\nWe’re a growing, dynamic team that embraces innovation and isn’t afraid to push the boundaries. We’re only just starting our journey to redefine the digital property landscape, with much more to explore and achieve. Join us, and transform the way the nation makes home decisions.\nAbout the Role\nWe're looking for a Data Engineering Manager to lead us into the future.\nThe Data team exists to turn Zoopla's data into value: better decisions for the business, better products for our consumers and customers, and direct revenue where the data itself is the product. Data Engineering is the foundation all of that runs on.\nDatabricks on AWS is our single foundation, with dbt for modelling, Fivetran for SaaS sources and AWS services for internal sources. Our ingestion and export patterns grew one at a time over several years. We want a small number of patterns that are clear, owned and easy to run, by reducing that overhead we'll be able to focus on even more ambitious projects alongside the platform team.\nYou'll report to the Director of Data and lead a team of four data engineers. You'll work very closely with our Head of Engineering Platform and Head of Product Platform, so that our technical systems align and we can make long term choices together.\nThis is a player coach role, we want our leaders out in front. The balance may change depending on the direction you set and where the team goes.\nWhat You'll Do\nSetting the direction for Data Engineering and communicating it. We have ideas, but we want one person with the remit to own and drive it.\nBuilding a shared roadmap with the Head of Platform Engineering and Head of Product for Platform, so Data Engineering work is planned in from the start. Bringing a view, challenging theirs, and agreeing where data architecture and platform architecture meet.\nPutting governance in place that people and AI can follow.\nMaking AI part of how the team works, and bringing Data Engineering into our software factory.\nOwning our Fivetran relationship and its cost.\nLeading, coaching and growing the team. Hiring well, giving clear feedback, and sharing knowledge so nobody is the only person who understands a piece of the platform.\nHow We Work\nData Engineering sits in the Data team alongside Analytics Engineering, Analytics and Data Science, and works side by side with Platform Engineering and Platform Product.\nWe're AI forward, maybe it doesn't get everything right now, but what's to say it won't tomorrow.\nRequirements\nAbout You (Key Attributes)\nExperience leading data engineering initiatives and setting technical direction, with formal line management experience OR a strong track record of mentoring engineers, leading projects, and a clear desire to step into people management.\nDeep experience with a modern lakehouse, ideally Databricks and Unity Catalog, and with dbt.\nComfortable on AWS and with infrastructure as code (Terraform), and able to hold your own in a design review with platform engineers.\nStrong grounding in ingestion and integration patterns: managed connectors, change data capture, event-driven and streaming ingestion, and reverse ETL or file-based exports to external systems and customers.\nPractical data governance: access control, data contracts, data quality and personal data handling, applied so teams can move faster.\nExperience using AI tools in engineering work, with a clear view on where they help, and how to keep them safe.\nYou build strong partnerships with engineering and product leaders, and you can disagree well and still land on a shared plan.\nYou know what your platform costs and what the business gets back for it.\nNice to Have\nFivetran, RudderStack or similar ingestion and reverse ETL tools.\nExperience running vendor relationships and contract renewals for data tooling.\nExposure to Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers or similar agent tooling.\nExperience in property, marketplaces or other data-rich consumer businesses.\nWhere you’ll be\nAt Zoopla, we embrace hybrid working but emphasise the importance of also spending time together. 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