Senior Machine Learning Engineer

Tesco; Welwyn Garden City; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 105,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus up to 20%

Holiday 25 days + personal day

Private medical insurance

Maternity & paternity leave

24/7 virtual GP & EAP

Job summary

Tesco UK in Welwyn Garden City is hiring a Senior Machine Learning Engineer. You will join the Data & Analytics team to build and deploy scalable ML solutions, collaborating with data scientists, engineers, and product teams across Tesco's analytics platforms.

The role focuses on productionising models, MLOps practices, and delivering high-impact data products for store, online, and supply chain operations.

Qualifications

• A higher degree in engineering, computer science, maths or science.
• Experience building scalable, resilient software systems.
• Experience leading a small team of engineers.
• Commercial experience contributing to high impact Data Science projects.
• Experience in MLOps practices and tooling (e.g., feature stores, model lifecycle).
• Fluent in Python and at least one other programming language.

Responsibilities

• Participating in group discussions on system design and architecture.
• Translating product needs into technical requirements with cross-functional teams.
• Delivering high quality code and solutions into production.
• Performing code reviews to optimise performance of data science solutions.
• Supporting production systems, incidents and root cause analysis.

Skills

Python

MLOps

Data science in production

Cloud computing

Git version control

Education

Higher degree in engineering, computer science, maths or science

Tools

Git

Splunk/New Relic/Grafana

Azure

Spark/Databricks/Snowflake/BigQuery

Job description

Tesco UK • Welwyn Garden City • Hybrid • Full-Time • Permanent • Working hours 36

Within Tesco Data & Analytics, we help our customers and the communities where we operate get the most value from data. We build and run Tesco's data platforms, we architect and engineer data onto these platforms, provide capabilities and tools to the analytics community across Tesco, and develop data products at scale.

Our Data Science teams are involved in a broad range of projects, spanning across supply chain, logistics, store and online. These include projects in the areas of Operations Optimisations, Commercial Decision Support (e.g. Forecasting and Range Optimisation), Online (e.g. Search and Recommendation) and Intelligent Edge (e.g. Computer Vision). Our Machine Learning Engineers work alongside our data scientists, helping with everything from development of tools and platforms, code optimisations through to deployment of solutions on the edge, cloud and big-data environments.

What is in it for you

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. to find out more!

• 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 (12 months service required at the qualifying date) at full pay, followed by 13 weeks of Statutory Maternity Pay or Statutory Adoption Pay, we also offer 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.

The above information is a shortened summary, refer to our policies for full details

You will be responsible for

As a Senior Machine Learning Engineer, you'll be a significant contributor to the delivery of products 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:

• Participating in 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.
• Applying SDLC practices to create and release robust software.

You will need

You come from either an Engineering or Data Science background, with a good understanding of the Data Science Toolkit (Programming, Machine Learning, MLOps etc) and bringing data science solutions into production. You therefore tick the majority of the following points:

Key Requirements:

• A higher degree in engineering, computer science, maths or science.
• Customer focus with the right balance between outcome delivery and technical excellence.
• The ability to apply technical skills and know-how to solving real world business problems.
• Demonstratable experience of building scalable and resilient software systems.
• Experience of leading a small team of engineers to meet the technical delivery and business outcomes.
• Commercial experience contributing to the success of high impact Data Science projects within complex organisations.
• Experience in MLOps practices and tooling would be an advantage e.g. feature stores and model lifecycle management.
• Experience with different programming languages and a good grasp of at least one language. The ideal candidate is fluent in Python.
• Understanding of common data structures and algorithms.
• Use of version control (Git) and related software lifecycle tooling.
• Experience with tooling for monitoring, logging and alerting e.g. Splunk, New Relic or Grafana.
• Experience of technologies such as Apache Spark, Databricks, Snowflake, or BigQuery to transform big-data optimised for Tesco scale
• Experience building solutions that run in the cloud, ideally Azure.
• Experience with software development methodologies including Scrum & Kanban.

About us

You might know us as a supermarket, technology company or even for our award-winning mobile network. Truth is, we're all of those things, and much more. Our colleagues work with one goal in mind, helping to make every day a little better for our customers, colleagues and communities all over the world. No two customers are the same, neither are our colleagues.

At Tesco, we champion a balance that lets you thrive both in and out of work. Spend 60% of your week collaborating with colleagues at our office locations or local sites and the rest remotely. Whether you're just kicking off your career, juggling passions, or navigating big life events, we're here to support you. We always welcome a conversation about flexible working, so talk to us throughout your application about how we can support.

We're proud to be an accredited Disability Confident Leader, where everyone's welcome. That's why we commit to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process. If you need support with your application, for more information. And if you're interested in joining our team but don't tick every box, don't let that hold you back from applying.