Software Development Engineer III

  • Full-time
  • Group Function: Tesco Technology

Company Description

Tesco Bengaluru
We are a multi-disciplinary team creating a sustainable competitive advantage for Tesco by standardising processes, delivering cost savings, enabling agility, providing cutting-edge technological solutions and empowering our colleagues to do ever more for our customers. With cross-functional expertise in Global Business Services and Retail Technology & Engineering, a wide network of teams and strong governance we reduce complexity thereby offering high quality services for our customers. Tesco Bengaluru, established in 2004 to enable standardisation and build centralised capabilities and competencies, makes the experience better for our millions of customers worldwide and simpler for over 4,40,000 colleagues.
At Tesco Business Solutions, we have a mission to simplify, scale & partner to serve our customers, colleagues and suppliers through a best-in-class intelligent Business Services model . We do this by building a world class business services model by executing servicea model framework right at the heart of everything we do for our worldwide customers. The key objective is to implement and execute service model across all our functions and markets consistently. The ethos of business services is to free-up our colleagues from a regular manual operational work. We use cognitive technology to augment our key decision making. We also built a Continuous Improvement (CI) culture across functions to drive bottom-up business efficiencies by optimising processes. Business services colleagues need to act as a business partner with our group stakeholders to build a collaborative partnership driving continuous improvement across markets and functions to lead the best customer experience by serving our shoppers a little better every day.
At Tesco, inclusion means that Everyone's Welcome. Everyone is treated fairly and with respect; by valuing individuality and uniqueness we create a sense of belonging.
Diversity and inclusion have always been at the heart of Tesco. It is embedded in our values: we treat people how they want to be treated. We always want our colleagues to feel they can be themselves at work and we are committed to helping them be at their best.
Across the Tesco group we are building an inclusive workplace, a place to actively celebrate the cultures, personalities and preferences of our colleagues, who in turn help to build the success of our business and reflect the diversity of the communities we serve.

Job Description

As a Software Development Engineer 3 (SDE3) Machine Learning Engineer; you’ll be a significant contributor to the delivery of new Data Science and AI driven products; operating in one of Tesco’s most strategic technology areas. You’ll work with other engineers; data scientists; product managers; systems engineers; and analytics professionals to help deliver valuable and innovative outcomes for our customers. You’ll work within and across our Engineering and Data Science teams; delivering scalable products that improve how we serve our customers and run our operations.
In this role; responsibilities will include:
- Leading group discussions on system design and architecture.
- Working with product teams to communicate and translate needs into technical requirements.
- Working with Data Scientists; Engineers and Product teams across the software lifecycle.
- Delivering high quality code and solutions; bringing solutions into production.
- Performing code reviews to optimise technical performance of data science solutions.
- Supporting production systems; resolving incidents; and performing root cause analysis.
- Continually look for how we can evolve and improve our technology; processes and practices.
- Sharing knowledge with the wider engineering community.
- Mentoring and developing others around you.
- Applying SDLC practices to create and release robust software.

Qualifications

The ideal candidate will have experience with the following ...
* Fluent Python skills
* Knowledge of Version control (Git) and related software lifecycle tooling.
* Common data structures and algorithms.
* Open-source Data-Science environments.
* Cloud technologies; ideally Azure.
* Agile Methodologies e.g. Scrum & Kanban.
* Solving business problems with an analytical mind set
* Emerging MLOps practices and tooling would be an advantage

Additional Information

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