Solutions Architect - Mortgages & Data Services

Solutions Architect - Mortgages & Data Services

London

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.

We are looking for a Solutions Architect - Mortgages & Data Services

Location: London with 2 days a week in the office

Reporting to: Head of Architecture

Business Unit: Architecture - General

As the UK's favourite property platform, Rightmove aims to give everyone the belief that they can make their move. To help us achieve this, we're looking for a Solution Architect to join our growing Architectural practice.

At Rightmove, you will play a crucial role in developing the architectural underpinnings that support our robust web and mobile platforms. Your focus will be on creating and refining the core principals and patterns that facilitate our seamless user experience. Through close collaboration with product and infrastructure engineering, you'll ensure that our architecture is scalable, secure, and agile enough to support continuous innovation.

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• Actively contribute to setting the long‑term technology direction, defining architectural milestones, and fostering a culture of innovation, experimentation, and continuous improvement.
• Create and maintain practical, reusable artefacts including reference architectures, patterns, data models, and design guidance, to support the next generation of our products and drive consistency across teams.
• Collaborate closely with product and engineering teams to design application components that are well‑structured, maintainable, resilient, and observable, with clear ownership, well‑understood dependencies and boundaries.
• Help shape best practices for data modelling, lineage, ownership, and governance. Ensure our systems are built on trustworthy, well‑managed data that is ready to support increasingly sophisticated analytics and AI‑driven use cases.
• Guide, mentor, and coach engineering teams to make sound architectural decisions autonomously while aligning with shared standards and principles.
• Serve as a role model in solving complex design challenges, sharing knowledge, and elevating the overall architectural maturity of the organisation.

• Translates business goals into technology solutions, identifying improvement opportunities and anticipating future need.
• Is pragmatic in approach, recognising technology as a tool to deliver business outcomes.
• Has proven experience with high traffic volume, web and mobile applications.
• Can share architectural ideas, concepts and implications confidently and clearly to a wide range of stakeholders.
• Creates an environment where engineering teams feel empowered to make great architectural decisions while maintaining alignment to shared principles and minimising technical risk.
• Encourages diverse perspectives and actively fosters inclusive, collaborative decision‑making.

• Demonstrable experience architecting and delivering distributed systems at scale.
• Strong understanding of containers, orchestration platforms, and modern Dev Ops practices.
• Experience with high‑volume messaging platforms and event‑driven design patterns.
• Proven experience designing solutions in public cloud environments, ideally Google Cloud Platform.
• Solid understanding of relational and No
  
  SQL data stores, data modelling, and data integration patterns.
• Experience working in a continuous delivery, agile engineering environment.

You will have the opportunity to work across a variety of technologies including GCP, Kubernetes (GKE), Kafka, Elasticsearch, Oracle, Couchbase and Apigee, so previous experience in any of these is welcome.

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