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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 Senior Data Engineer to build the next stage of our data platform.\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, and we want the engineer who designs them to build them.\nYou'll report to our Data Engineering Manager and work closely with our platform engineers, so that our technical systems align and we can make ambitious choices together.\nWhat You'll Do\nOwning Data Engineering projects end to end, from technical direction to business impact.\nDesigning and building our standard ingestion and export patterns, and moving existing pipelines onto them.\nBuilding governance into every pipeline: access, personal data, lineage and cost.\nUsing AI to make the patterns faster to apply, and helping bring Data Engineering into our software factory.\nReviewing code, mentoring other engineers, and sharing knowledge.\nTaking your share of keeping production healthy.\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)\nSubstantial experience building and running production data pipelines that other teams and customers depend on.\nStrong Python and SQL.\nDeep experience with a modern lakehouse, ideally Databricks and Unity Catalog, and with dbt.\nComfortable on AWS and with infrastructure as code (Terraform).\nStrong grounding in ingestion and integration patterns: managed connectors, change data capture, event-driven and streaming ingestion, and exports to external systems and customers. You know the trade-offs.\nA track record of simplifying: replacing one-off pipelines with a small number of patterns, without breaking things on the way.\nExperience using AI tools in engineering work, with a clear view on where they help, and how to keep them safe.\nPractical data governance: access control, data quality and personal data handling, applied so teams can move faster.\nYou can explain technical things in plain English, and you push back when the ask doesn't match the problem.\nNice to Have\nFivetran, RudderStack or similar ingestion and reverse ETL tools.\nDatabricks Lakeflow, Auto Loader or Delta Sharing.\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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