Enterprise Architect

Role: Enterprise Architect

Location: Milton Keynes / Hybrid (3 days a week working from home)

Reports to: Head of Architecture

The role

We are looking for an Enterprise Architect, to help define and drive forward the technology strategy behind Rightmove’s internal business processes, from sales automation and order fulfilment to pricing, billing management, and customer support.

You will be experienced in breaking down enterprise processes into component parts and defining solutions that integrate with existing systems, allowing both process and technology to evolve to meet future needs. Ideally you will have worked as an enterprise architect on highly distributed platforms consisting of both bespoke built applications and industry standard software. More importantly you thrive from bringing a hands-on approach to the role, eager to work alongside product team engineers implementing solutions, and working directly with technology providers.

The Architecture team works closely with Product & Platform Reliability and Engineering teams to ensure our application delivery platform supports the scale, security and resilience required while being agile enough to allow continuous releases of new functionality

What you’ll be doing

• Contributing to the technology strategy, with a focus on business process evolution, agreeing key milestones and ensuring any plan provides room for early experimentation of new approaches.

• Working with Product Managers to understand their roadmaps and share design ideas.

• Collaborating with business stakeholders, end-users, and product teams to understand current issues, coordinating the analysis of associated business processes, and building architectural decisions based on data gathered.

• Understanding the enterprise software marketplace, defining build vs buy options and evaluating potential suppliers - covering functional and non-functional scope, technical integration, and commercial criteria.

• Engaging with our existing technology partners to understand their products and identify opportunities where we can use them to advance our own technical capabilities and optimise costs.

• Encouraging teams to work independently while providing enough guidance to ensure good technical decisions are made and architectural consistency is maintained.

We’re looking for someone who

• Translates business goals into technology solutions, identifying opportunities and anticipating future need.

• Understands key enterprise integration patterns and when to use them.

• Looks to drive architectural level improvements, while also keen to be involved in hands-on implementation.

• Has commercial experience designing business process solutions, across highly distributed architectures.

• Can share architectural ideas confidently and clearly to a wide range of stakeholders.

• Encourages contributions from everyone and actively seeks to be inclusive in design decisions.

Ideally, we’re looking for someone with the following technology background:

• Excellent knowledge of the enterprise software landscape.

• Experience working with CRM, BPM, payments, and/or ticketing systems.

• Knowledge of the Java application stack, particularly with Spring.

• Experience with REST and/or GraphQL API design.

• Experience with relational and noSQL datastores.

• Experience with testing tools and promoting TDD best-practices.

• Knowledge of Docker, cloud platforms, and/or other deployment models.

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:

• Be approachable and appreciate what others do
• Make complex things as simple as possible
• Build great teams, because Rightmove is people
• Drive improvement, we can always be better
• Share early, honestly and often

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 about this role, then get in touch.