Houseful Limited
Hybrid - Minimum 2 days on site in London, Tower Bridge HQ About Houseful Houseful is home to trusted brands Zoopla, Alto, Hometrack, Calcasa, Mojo and Prime location. Together we're creating the connections that power better property decisions, by unlocking the combined strength of software, data and insight. About Hometrack At Hometrack, we're redefining the mortgage journey for lenders, brokers and borrowers. We deliver market-leading valuation and risk evaluation services across the property technology and financial technology industries. Our customers include 9 of the top 10 mortgage providers, as well as many others in financial services. Founded in 1999, we made our name with our Automated Valuation Model (AVM) and now provide more than 50 million automated valuations every year. We want to make Houseful more welcoming, fair and representative every day. We'll consider everyone who applies for this role in the same way, regardless of your ethnicity, colour, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, age, physical disability, neurodiversity status, family or parental status, or how long you've spent unemployed. You will be responsible for maintaining and improving the industry leading Hometrack AVM (Automated Valuation Model to estimate the value of residential properties). We are always looking to innovate and better identify and understand what data makes a difference to property value and risk and how to incorporate this into our models and products. You'll be at home if you enjoy: Being responsible for the performance of our live models. Automating continual retraining and accuracy testing. Detecting model drift and deploying model improvements to ensure the reliability of our valuations for lender clients. Researching new datasets and advanced machine learning techniques that can be used to increase the accuracy of our property valuation model and improve our AI capabilities across our model and product range Design and create the pipelines and infrastructure to deploy data science models at scale Create the tools, frameworks and libraries that will enable the acceleration of our Data Science product delivery and spread the best ML Ops standards across the whole business Work collaboratively with fellow data scientists, ML Engineers, analysts, product managers and data engineers Mentoring more junior members of the team on how to solve Data Science problems. Meeting with stakeholders to translate business needs into data science problems You'll hit the ground running if you have: An advanced degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics or other quantitative discipline Strong Python experience and knowledge, with the ability to write stable, scalable and maintainable code You worked in an R&D environment and/or you are intimately familiar with the fundamentals of the scientific research method: critical thinking, formulating hypotheses, running experiments, drawing conclusions etc. Experienced at identifying problems that can be solved with machine learning and delivering them from prototype through to production Strong understanding of machine learning applications, development life cycle processes and tools: CI/CD, version control (git), testing frameworks, MLOps Comfortable working with Docker and containerised applications Experience with data science Python libraries such as Scikit-learn, Pandas, NumPy, Pytorch etc. Experience using AWS or similar cloud computing platform Great communicator - convey complex ideas and solutions in clear, precise and accessible ways Team player who cares about accelerating not only Hometrack's technical capabilities, but also empowering colleagues There's always room to grow and learn with our roles so please don't be put off if you don't have all of these skills and experiences. It's more important that you're passionate about our mission to improve the home moving and owning experience for everyone. 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 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
Hybrid - Minimum 2 days on site in London, Tower Bridge HQ About Houseful Houseful is home to trusted brands Zoopla, Alto, Hometrack, Calcasa, Mojo and Prime location. Together we're creating the connections that power better property decisions, by unlocking the combined strength of software, data and insight. About Hometrack At Hometrack, we're redefining the mortgage journey for lenders, brokers and borrowers. We deliver market-leading valuation and risk evaluation services across the property technology and financial technology industries. Our customers include 9 of the top 10 mortgage providers, as well as many others in financial services. Founded in 1999, we made our name with our Automated Valuation Model (AVM) and now provide more than 50 million automated valuations every year. We want to make Houseful more welcoming, fair and representative every day. We'll consider everyone who applies for this role in the same way, regardless of your ethnicity, colour, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, age, physical disability, neurodiversity status, family or parental status, or how long you've spent unemployed. You will be responsible for maintaining and improving the industry leading Hometrack AVM (Automated Valuation Model to estimate the value of residential properties). We are always looking to innovate and better identify and understand what data makes a difference to property value and risk and how to incorporate this into our models and products. You'll be at home if you enjoy: Being responsible for the performance of our live models. Automating continual retraining and accuracy testing. Detecting model drift and deploying model improvements to ensure the reliability of our valuations for lender clients. Researching new datasets and advanced machine learning techniques that can be used to increase the accuracy of our property valuation model and improve our AI capabilities across our model and product range Design and create the pipelines and infrastructure to deploy data science models at scale Create the tools, frameworks and libraries that will enable the acceleration of our Data Science product delivery and spread the best ML Ops standards across the whole business Work collaboratively with fellow data scientists, ML Engineers, analysts, product managers and data engineers Mentoring more junior members of the team on how to solve Data Science problems. Meeting with stakeholders to translate business needs into data science problems You'll hit the ground running if you have: An advanced degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics or other quantitative discipline Strong Python experience and knowledge, with the ability to write stable, scalable and maintainable code You worked in an R&D environment and/or you are intimately familiar with the fundamentals of the scientific research method: critical thinking, formulating hypotheses, running experiments, drawing conclusions etc. Experienced at identifying problems that can be solved with machine learning and delivering them from prototype through to production Strong understanding of machine learning applications, development life cycle processes and tools: CI/CD, version control (git), testing frameworks, MLOps Comfortable working with Docker and containerised applications Experience with data science Python libraries such as Scikit-learn, Pandas, NumPy, Pytorch etc. Experience using AWS or similar cloud computing platform Great communicator - convey complex ideas and solutions in clear, precise and accessible ways Team player who cares about accelerating not only Hometrack's technical capabilities, but also empowering colleagues There's always room to grow and learn with our roles so please don't be put off if you don't have all of these skills and experiences. It's more important that you're passionate about our mission to improve the home moving and owning experience for everyone. 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 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
Houseful Limited
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
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