Senior Data Scientist - Global Planning & AI Simulations

Ocado Group; City of Westminster; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days annual leave

Private Medical Insurance

Pension with employer matching

Share schemes

Cycle to Work Scheme

Discounts at Ocado

Job summary

Ocado Group is seeking a Senior Data Scientist for the Autoplanner team to build AI-powered planning systems for global warehouses and last-mile operations. You will develop ML models, optimisation algorithms, and simulations powering live plans across international supply chains, mentoring colleagues and shaping technical direction.

You will collaborate with software engineers, product managers, and retailers to translate complex logistics challenges into production-ready data science

Qualifications

• Experience building ML models for production and delivering end-to-end data science projects.
• Strong statistical background and ability to evaluate models against business metrics.
• Fluency in Python and collaborating with engineers to deploy models.

Responsibilities

• Deliver ML models for planning products from prototype to production artefacts.
• Explore modelling and optimisation approaches and rigorously test them.
• Build simulations of warehouse operations and demand to validate live plans.
• Define metrics and establish robust evaluation standards.
• Set the technical direction and delivery strategy for DS initiatives.
• Mentor data scientists and provide technical guidance to the team.
• Collaborate with software engineers to deploy, monitor, and serve models.
• Own relationships with product managers and external retailers for roadmaps.
• Take DS models into production end-to-end and maintain them.
• Write production-quality Python code and ensure code quality.
• Query large datasets in cloud warehouses like BigQuery with data-quality checks.
• Build simulations or stochastic models of operational systems.
• Apply AI coding agents with prudent verification of generated code.
• Collaborate across engineers, PMs and stakeholders.

Skills

Python

Production ML

Statistical analysis

Data modeling

Mentoring

Cloud computing

Model evaluation

Tools

BigQuery

SimPy

Job description

Ocado Group is seeking a Senior Data Scientist for the Autoplanner team to build AI-powered planning systems for global warehouses and last-mile operations. You will develop ML models, optimisation algorithms, and simulations powering live plans across international supply chains, mentoring colleagues and shaping technical direction.

You will collaborate with software engineers, product managers, and retailers to translate complex logistics challenges into production-ready data science