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Head of Data Engineering

Houseful Limited
London
4 days ago
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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. We’ve led the market for twenty years.
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
A leader who can build a culture of continuous improvement
We want our new joiners to relate to and champion our Hometrack

behaviours :
Build Together: you collaborate, you support and mentor colleagues
Set the Bar Higher: with your professional experience and personal passion
Know your Audience: you’re driven to solve customer problems
Own It: comfortable in a dynamic environment, with a degree of uncertainty
Re-imagine: comfortable learning new technologies and tools on the job
Our mission is to make Hometrack more welcoming, fair and representative every day.
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.
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 a 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

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