About the role
The Product & Engineering team is responsible for developing and managing data products that drive intelligent experiences, decisions and actions across the Tesco ecosystem. We work in close partnership with business and technology teams across Stores, Finance, People, Customer, and Commercial to enable the seamless build, consumption, integration and expansion of Data & AI capabilities.
Hybrid role with the expectation of being based at our London and Welwyn Garden City offices three days a week.
You will be responsible for
* Team Leadership: Build, mentor and develop a high‑performing team of analysts, fostering a culture of growth, inclusion and technical excellence with a strong emphasis on data and advanced analytics.
* Data Product Development: Lead the design, development and optimisation of scalable, secure and high‑quality data pipelines and analytical models, enabling advanced analytics, machine learning and operational use cases.
* Collaboration: Work closely with cross‑functional teams, including data science, engineering, product and business stakeholders to translate business needs into robust, data‑driven solutions.
* Technical Excellence: Promote and enable adoption of Technical Standards and Engineering Effectiveness within development squads.
* Technical Experience: Demonstrate expertise in using SQL (Spark, Dremio), Python, GitHub and data orchestration tools (Airflow, Oozie) for data wrangling, building data pipelines and developing analytical interfaces.
* AI‑Assisted Analytics: Bring experience and curiosity towards AI‑assisted analytics and machine learning, actively exploring opportunities to integrate AI and ML within data and analytics products.
* Data Governance: Ensure data lineage, cataloguing and access controls are implemented and maintained, supporting compliance, discoverability and ethical use of data.
* Continuous Improvement: Drive continuous improvement (speed of delivery, product quality, reduce number of defects and time to fix) and facilitate innovation in business practices and ways of working.
* Stakeholder Engagement: Communicate complex data and analytics concepts effectively to technical and non‑technical audiences, enabling informed decision making.
* Talent Development: Support recruitment, onboarding and ongoing development of talent within the team. Identify skill gaps and lead targeted upskilling initiatives to enable the team to adopt software engineering best practices, AI capabilities, advanced analytics and automation practices.
Skills & qualifications you will need
* Experience developing robust data products that are actionable and scalable.
* Expertise in using Spark, Dremio, Teradata or other SQL technologies.
* Strong knowledge and experience of using business intelligence, ETL frameworks and visualisation tools such as Tableau.
* Experience with Python, GitHub, data orchestration tools (Oozie, Airflow) for data wrangling, building data pipelines and building analytical/web interfaces.
* Good understanding of the full data lifecycle and typical enterprise concerns around data platforms (Governance, Quality, Security).
* Experience creating outputs for both technical and non‑technical audiences.
* Ability to manipulate, analyse and synthesise data using different sources to create customer‑led, data‑driven products and high‑impact presentations.
* Highly numerate with a university degree of 2:1 or higher in a quantitative discipline or relevant experience.
Benefits
We’re all about the little helps. That’s why we make sure our Tesco colleague benefits package takes care of you – both in and out of work.
* Annual bonus scheme of up to 20% of base salary
* Holiday starting at 25 days plus a personal day (plus Bank holidays)
* Private medical insurance
* 26 weeks maternity and adoption leave (after 1 year’s service) at full pay, followed by 13 weeks of Statutory Maternity Pay or Statutory Adoption Pay, and 6 weeks fully paid paternity leave
* Free 24/7 virtual GP service, Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) for you and your family, free access to a range of experts to support your mental wellbeing
Equal Employment Opportunity
Tesco is an equal opportunities employer. We encourage applicants of all backgrounds to apply.
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