Solutions Architect

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Location: London – 2 days a week in office

Reporting to: Head of Architecture

Business Unit: Architecture – General

About 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 need a Solution Architect to join our growing Architectural practice. You’ll play a crucial role in developing the architecture that supports our robust web and mobile platforms, ensuring it is scalable, secure and agile enough to support continuous innovation.

Responsibilities

• 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, 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 ready to support increasingly sophisticated analytics and AI‑driven use cases.
• Guide, mentor and coach engineering teams to make autonomous architectural decisions 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.

Qualifications & Experience

• Translate business goals into technology solutions, identifying improvement opportunities and anticipating future needs.
• Pragmatic in approach – recognising technology as a tool to deliver business outcomes.
• Proven experience with high‑traffic web and mobile applications.
• Communicate architectural ideas, concepts and implications confidently and clearly to a wide range of stakeholders.
• Create an environment where engineering teams feel empowered to make great architectural decisions while maintaining alignment to shared principles and minimising technical risk.
• Encourage diverse perspectives and actively foster inclusive, collaborative decision‑making.

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

We aim to make moving simpler by providing the best place to turn to and return to for access to tools, expertise, trust and belief to make it happen. We are home to the UK's largest choice of properties and are the go‑to destination for millions of people planning their next move, reading industry news or simply browsing the market. Despite growth, we’ve remained a friendly, supportive place to work.

Our core values 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.

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, holiday buy schemes
• Hybrid working pattern with 2 days in the office
• Contributory stakeholder pension
• Life assurance of 4x basic salary to a spouse, family member or other nominated person
• Competitive compensation package
• Paid leave for maternity, paternity, adoption and fertility
• Travel loans, bike‑to‑work scheme, rental deposit loan
• Charitable contributions through payroll giving and donation matching
• Access deals and discounts on travel, electronics, fashion, gym memberships, cinema discounts and more

As an Equal Opportunity Employer, Rightmove will never discriminate based on 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 background or identity, to develop and promote a diverse culture that reflects the communities we serve.

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Recruitment Details

• Seniority level: Mid‑Senior level
• Employment type: Full‑time
• Job function: Engineering and Information Technology
• Industries: Technology, Information and Internet