Senior ML Engineer: Production‑Ready AI & MLOps Leader

TESCO UK; Welwyn Garden City; Hybrid; GBP 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Tesco UK is seeking a Senior Machine Learning Engineer to contribute to the delivery of data products across Tesco Data & Analytics. You will work with engineers, data scientists, product managers, systems engineers and analytics professionals to build scalable solutions that enhance customer experiences and Tesco operations.

You will collaborate across Engineering and Data Science teams, helping deploy ML solutions at scale on edge, cloud and big-data environments, while applying SDLC practices

Qualifications

• Higher degree in engineering, computer science, maths or science.
• Customer-focused with the right balance between outcome delivery and technical excellence.
• 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.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills

Python

MLOps

Spark

Databricks

Snowflake

BigQuery

Azure

Scrum

Kanban

Git

Education

Higher degree in engineering/computer science/maths/science

Tools

Splunk

New Relic

Grafana

Job description

Tesco UK is seeking a Senior Machine Learning Engineer to contribute to the delivery of data products across Tesco Data & Analytics. You will work with engineers, data scientists, product managers, systems engineers and analytics professionals to build scalable solutions that enhance customer experiences and Tesco operations.

You will collaborate across Engineering and Data Science teams, helping deploy ML solutions at scale on edge, cloud and big-data environments, while applying SDLC practices