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Director Of Data Engineer

Houseful Limited
London
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Hometrack is seeking an accomplished Head of / Principal Data Engineer, to lead the delivery of the UK’s best Property Data Platform. We offer a competitive salary, fantastic benefits, and flexible, hybrid working. Hometrack’s market-leading property data sets, valuation models, and risk insights are delivered via our suite of B2B SaaS applications for mortgage lenders, brokers, and more. Our services are mission-critical to the UK’s top banks, automating their mortgage offers. They’re used daily by home builders, mortgage brokers, local councils, and more to make informed property purchasing decisions. We’ve migrated key legacy SQL Server/SSIS pipelines to PySpark and Databricks, and we’re in the home stretch of our modernisation programme. Now we’re looking to unlock the power of our disparate data, and make it accessible and reusable across our teams and products, and enable our customers to self-serve. Come help us architect and deliver the UK’s best Property Data Platform. What we’re looking for in a Head of Data Engineering: Collaborative, across product teams, and functions (Data Science, Analytics, Legal, Software, etc) A pragmatist, who can align multiple product workstreams towards the coherent vision of a unified high quality, high trust data platform to support production services, including dashboards, new product delivery, analytics and data science development Comfortable working to high standards of compliance (inc ISO-27001, GDPR), Data Governance, and Information Security Experienced in migrating from SQL based data architectures to modern Data Engineering technologies, using PySpark, Databricks, Terraform, and Pandas Someone able to explore, analyse and understand our data and its uses Ideally experienced in a multi-cloud environment (Databricks across Azure and AWS) solving networking, security, and best practice challenges A product mindset, helping our product teams and customers solve data problems All qualified applicants will be considered for employment regardless of ethnicity, colour, nationality, religion, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, age, disability, neurodiversity, family or parental status, or time unemployed. We’re re-imagining the property industry to make it work for everyone, so we actively welcome applications from demographics that are underrepresented in technology. ~ 25 days annual leave + extra days for years of service ~ Day off for volunteering & Digital detox day ~ Cycle to work and electric car schemes ~ Enhanced Parental leave ~ Fertility Treatment Financial Support ~ Group Income Protection and private medical insurance ~ Gym on-site in London ~5% pension contribution by the company ~ Discretionary annual bonus up to 10% of base salary ~ Talent referral bonus up to £5K #

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