Simulation Data Scientist - Digital Twins & Supply Chain

Tesco; Welwyn Garden City; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Tesco Data Science invites applications for a Simulation Data Scientist to solve challenging supply chain and business problems using simulation. You will develop, connect and validate models across operations, collaborating in an agile team with version-controlled code and repeatable deployment practices.

Based in Welwyn Garden City, you will design models at varying fidelities, integrate them across tools, and use real data to inform decisions.

Qualifications

• Strong statistics and algorithms background.
• Experience building and connecting simulation models.
• Ability to validate models using operational data.
• Proficiency in Python and software development practices.

Responsibilities

• Understand operational problems and define what a simulation should represent and measure.
• Build and maintain simulation models using Python and relevant tools.
• Connect models to run together across distributed or federated environments.
• Prepare and analyse operational data to set up models and identify gaps.
• Run repeatable experiments to assess proposed changes and compare effects.
• Explain findings clearly, including uncertainties and limitations.

Skills

Python

Simulation modelling

Data analysis

Version control

Agile methodologies

Distributed sims

Interoperability

OOP

Education

Quantitative degree

Tools

Git

SimPy

NumPy/Pandas

Job description

Tesco Data Science invites applications for a Simulation Data Scientist to solve challenging supply chain and business problems using simulation. You will develop, connect and validate models across operations, collaborating in an agile team with version-controlled code and repeatable deployment practices.

Based in Welwyn Garden City, you will design models at varying fidelities, integrate them across tools, and use real data to inform decisions.