Solutions Architect - Mortgages & Data Services

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 

The role 

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.

✍️Head to our tech blog to find out more about our engineering culture

Solutions Architect responsibilities include:

• 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.

We are looking for someone who: 

• 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.

We are looking for the following background:

• Demonstrable experience architecting and delivering distributed systems at scale.
• Strong understanding of containers, orchestration platforms, and modern DevOps 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 NoSQL 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.

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 How's 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...  

What we offer  
People are the foundation of Rightmove - We’ll help you build a career on it.  

• 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.