Data Engineering Manager

Data Engineering Manager

Location: London office / Hybrid (2 days per week in the office)

Reporting to: Head of Data Engineering

The Role

We're looking for an experienced Data Engineering Manager to lead a team of data engineers and analytics engineers working on our modern GCP-based analytical Data & AI Platform. You'll be responsible for building a healthy, high-performing team, delivering value use cases, and collaborating on system design.

We're a small but growing team and we want someone with a strong technical background who, while not being too hands on day to day, will drive forward design and technical discussions to help us create the best platform possible and deliver value across the business. This is a key role which will require you to collaborate with our Data Science and AI teams, our Data Analytics teams and also with Product Development squads across the business.

Engineering Managers at Rightmove are not just people leaders, but delivery enablers, engineering advocates, and strategic partners to Product Managers. You'll have a big impact on the shape of our data and engineering organisation, playing a key role in how we plan, deliver, grow talent, and scale systems across the business.

What You'll Be Doing

People and Team Development

• Support the growth of engineers through clear development goals, coaching, feedback, and mentoring.
• Create a psychologically safe and inclusive environment where people are empowered to do great work and challenge with care.
• Align career development with team success, ensuring that individuals are stretched and supported in the right ways.
• Champion our culture, modelling high standards and helping others connect, grow, and thrive.
• Ensure the long-term health and maintainability of the systems your team owns.
• Drive system and platform design decisions and contribute to our Data and AI technical direction.
• Collaborate with tech leads, architects, and other EMs to share context, resolve dependencies, and improve system design.
• Encourage good practices around testing, observability, performance, and resilience - ensuring your team owns their systems in production.

Planning and Delivery

• Partner with Product Managers to align priorities, capacity, and scope - creating clear goals and realistic plans.
• Ensure your team has the right structure, skills, and clarity to deliver consistently and sustainably.
• Monitor delivery flow, remove blockers, and drive improvements to how the team works (including process, quality, and velocity).
• Proactively manage risks, make trade-offs where needed, and represent your team in cross-functional planning.

Hiring and Talent Development

• Take a leading role in hiring, onboarding, and growing diverse engineering talent.
• Shape team structure and capabilities over time, based on what the work needs and where people can grow.
• Support calibration and promotion processes by advocating fairly and clearly for your engineers.

Collaboration and Leadership

• Build a strong partnership with product and data leadership to ensure clarity and momentum in the team.
• Translate between technical and business contexts, ensuring stakeholders are informed and aligned.
• Operate with a broader view - solving local problems, but always in service of organisation-wide outcomes.

You'll likely bring:

• Technical background as a Data Engineer, ideally with experience working with a modern data platform.
• Experience working with a cloud provider (GCP desirable) and experience in designing modern data systems.
• Prior experience managing data and/or analytics engineers.
• A strong track record of supporting delivery and improving team ways of working.
• Confidence in navigating planning, estimation, scope, and stakeholder alignment.
• A collaborative mindset and ability to build trust across a wide range of people and roles.
• A calm, thoughtful, and pragmatic approach - especially when stakes are high or ambiguity is present.
• A genuine interest in growing others, including coaching, feedback, and performance development.

If you're passionate about creating the conditions for great engineering, and excited about building impactful teams that solve real problems, we'd love to hear from you.

About Rightmove

Our vision is to give everyone the belief they can make their move. We aim to make moving simpler, by giving everyone the best place to turn to and return to for access to the tools, expertise, trust and belief to make it happen.

We're home to the UK's largest choice of properties, and are the go-to destination for millions of people planning their next move, reading the latest industry news, or just browsing what's on the market.

Despite this growth, we've remained a friendly, supportive place to work, with employee #1 still working here! We've done this by placing the Rightmove Hows at the heart of everything we do. These are the essential values that reflect our culture, and include:

• We create value …by delivering results and building trust with partners and consumers.
• We think bigger …by acting with curiosity and setting bold aspirations.
• We care deeply …by being real, having fun, and valuing diversity.
• We move together …by being one team - internally collaborative, externally competitive.
• We make a difference …by focusing on delivering measurable impact.

We believe in careers that open doors, and help our team develop by providing an open and inclusive work environment, offering ongoing training opportunities, and supporting charity fundraising events. And with 88% of Rightmovers saying we're a great place to work, we're clearly doing something right!

If all this has caught your eye, you may well be a Rightmover in the making...

People are the foundation of Rightmove - We'll help you build a career on it.

What We Offer

• Cash plan for dental, optical and physio treatments
• Private Medical Insurance, Pension and Life Insurance, Employee Assistance Plan
• 27 days holiday plus two (paid) volunteering days a year to give back, and holiday buy schemes
• Hybrid working pattern with 2 days in office
• Contributory stakeholder pension
• Life assurance at 4x your basic salary to a spouse, family member or other nominated person in your life
• Competitive compensation package
• Paid leave for maternity, paternity, adoption & fertility
• Travel Loans, Bike to Work scheme, Rental Deposit Loan
• Charitable contributions through Payroll Giving and donation matching
• Access deals and discounts on things like travel, electronics, fashion, gym memberships, cinema discounts and more

As an Equal Opportunity Employer, Rightmove will never discriminate on the basis of age, disability, sex, race, religion or belief, gender reassignment, marriage/civil partnership, pregnancy/maternity, or sexual orientation. At Rightmove, we believe that a diverse and inclusive workforce leads to better innovation, productivity, and overall success. We are committed to creating a welcoming and inclusive environment for all employees, regardless of their background or identity, to develop and promote a diverse culture that reflects the communities we serve.

Ultimately, we care much more about the person you are and how you think and approach things, than a list of qualifications and buzzwords on a CV. Even if you can't say 'yes' to all the above, but are smart, self-motivated and passionate, then get in touch.