Senior Data Scientist — Hybrid, Autonomous Planning

Ocado Group; Greater London; Híbrido; GBP 90.000 - 150.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Leave: 25 days

Medical Insurance

Parental Leave

Pension match

Share schemes

Commuter perks

Ocado discount

Descripción de la vacante

Ocado Group is seeking a Senior Data Scientist for the Autoplanner team in London. You will design and deploy AI-powered planning models that unify warehouse and last-mile operations across global partners, driving automated, live operational plans with production-grade code and robust simulations.

You will shape technical direction, mentor colleagues, and collaborate with software engineers, PMs, and external retailers to translate logistics challenges into scalable data science solutions for

Formación

• Proven track record of taking data science models into production.
• Strong ML and statistical expertise with evaluation against business metrics.
• Fluency in production-quality Python code.
• Experience querying large datasets in cloud data warehouses (e.g., BigQuery).
• Experience building simulations or stochastic models of operations.
• Experience using AI coding agents and validating generated code/outputs.
• Ability to collaborate with software engineers, PMs and stakeholders.

Responsabilidades

• Deliver ML models for planning products from prototype to production artefacts.
• Explore modelling/optimisation approaches and benchmark against existing solutions.
• Build simulations of warehouse operations and demand to power live plans.
• Define metrics and set standards for model evaluation.
• Set direction and delivery strategy for DS initiatives.
• Mentor and develop DS team capabilities.
• Collaborate with engineers to deploy, monitor, and serve models on the platform.
• Manage relationships with product managers and external retailers to align on requirements.

Conocimientos

Production ML models

Production Python

Model evaluation

Large-scale data analysis

Cross-functional collaboration

Mentoring teammates

Herramientas

BigQuery

SimPy

OR-Tools

Descripción del empleo

Ocado Group is seeking a Senior Data Scientist for the Autoplanner team in London. You will design and deploy AI-powered planning models that unify warehouse and last-mile operations across global partners, driving automated, live operational plans with production-grade code and robust simulations.

You will shape technical direction, mentor colleagues, and collaborate with software engineers, PMs, and external retailers to translate logistics challenges into scalable data science solutions for