Senior Data Platform Engineer – Scale & Automation Leader

TESCO; Welwyn Garden City; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus up to 20% of base salary

25 days holiday + personal day

Private medical insurance

Maternity/adoption leave 26 weeks

Paid paternity leave 6 weeks

24/7 virtual GP

Employee Assistance Programme

Job summary

Tesco Technology's Data and Analytics team seeks a System Engineer for Data Platforms. You will own engineering excellence, build scalable data platforms, and evolve practices to meet demand, collaborating with a global engineering community.

You will influence supplier roadmaps, drive automation, and keep up with industry trends, delivering platforms that let consumers focus on value-added work across Tesco locations.

Qualifications

• Track record of managing mission critical, large scale service in a global organisation.
• Experience with automation to build platforms and prevent problem recurrence.
• Ops experience in automated delivery such as continuous integration, continuous deployment and immutable infrastructure

Responsibilities

• Establishing and sharing the engineering excellence for data platforms.
• Building the data platforms to transform them without impact to existing levels of service.
• Designing solutions that will operate at scale.
• Contributing to supplier roadmaps.
• Inspiring the engineering team to produce quality solutions.
• Keeping up with Industry trends.
• Building globally, ensuring consistency in approach throughout all our locations.
• Ensure operational stability is balanced with engineering and roadmap delivery.
• Contributing to building a team culture for continuous improvement and an environment where engineers want to work.
• Continuously sharing feedback with the engineering teams for them to meet the required quality standards.
• Driving adoption of new tools and techniques being able to understand their value and impact.
• Keep your technical skills up to date and keep track of new technologies, processes, understanding how they might benefit the Technology team and wider Tesco.

Skills

Excellent communication

Analytical thinking

Team player

Cloud technologies

Compute/storage/networking

Infrastructure as Code

Linux fundamentals

Networking basics

Scripting Bash/Python/Go

Java/Scala basics

Desired State Tools

CI/CD pipelines

Containers (Docker/Kubernetes)

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

Ansible

Chef

Puppet

Job description

Tesco Technology's Data and Analytics team seeks a System Engineer for Data Platforms. You will own engineering excellence, build scalable data platforms, and evolve practices to meet demand, collaborating with a global engineering community.

You will influence supplier roadmaps, drive automation, and keep up with industry trends, delivering platforms that let consumers focus on value-added work across Tesco locations.