Senior Data Scientist

Company Description

Tesco Bengaluru: We are a multi-disciplinary team creating a sustainable competitive advantage for Tesco by standardising processes, delivering cost savings, enabling agility, providing cutting-edge technological solutions and empowering our colleagues to do ever more for our customers. With cross-functional expertise in Global Business Services and Retail Technology & Engineering, a wide network of teams and strong governance we reduce complexity thereby offering high quality services for our customers. Tesco Bengaluru, established in 2004 to enable standardisation and build centralised capabilities and competencies, makes the experience better for our millions of customers worldwide and simpler for over 4,40,000 colleagues.
Tesco Technology consists of people from a number of different backgrounds, but having a common purpose to serve our shoppers a little better every day with our retail technological solutions. We shared a common interest in harnessing innovations in technology to enhance their shopping experience at Tesco stores. Whether making products, software or systems, our teams focuses on various aspects from taking strategic ownership of the architecture to delivering technological solutions such as design, testing, deployment, infrastructure, operation and security of the systems to ensure agile, smooth and safe operations. These help us to deliver the maximum business impact. Teams refine their internal processes to best fit their own needs, working to build core capabilities in application and services. We collaborate globally across teams to build end-to-end customer-facing solutions, as well as to share knowledge, experience, tools and techniques.
At Tesco, inclusion means that Everyone?s Welcome. Everyone is treated fairly and with respect; by valuing individuality and uniqueness we create a sense of belonging.
Diversity and inclusion have always been at the heart of Tesco. It is embedded in our values: we treat people how they want to be treated. We always want our colleagues to feel they can be themselves at work and we are committed to helping them be at their best.
Across the Tesco group we are building an inclusive workplace, a place to actively celebrate the cultures, personalities and preferences of our colleagues ? who in turn help to build the success of our business and reflect the diversity of the communities we serve.

Job Description

As a Senior Data Scientist; I act as a technical lead and run significant aspects of (usually) a single product independently. I’m expected to create/assign/supervise tasks; to contribute to managing stakeholders and to helping shape the product roadmap.In this role; my technical knowledge breadth (generalist) or depth (specialist) is higher than a Data Scientist’s. I’m trusted to mentor more junior members of the team.
In this role your work will focus on modelling sophisticated business problems and developing / deploying the algorithmic features of technology products at scale.
As a Senior Data Scientist; I’m responsible for:
Leading the development of data science algorithmic features.
Partnering with Product to shape the mid/long-term roadmap and to manage the relationships with the business stakeholders.
Leading framing and scoping of Data Science problems.
Partnering with Engineering to the design complex software systems.
Organising internal and external training and awareness events.
Participating in recruiting activities.
The Data Science Team’s work spans across multiple business domains including physical stores; online; supply chain; marketing and Clubcard and we encourage rotation so our Data Scientists can gain expertise in different business and technical domains.
As a member of the Data Science Team; you will have the opportunity to work on problem spaces including but not limited to Search & Recommendations; Personalisation; Pricing Optimisation; Operations Optimisation in Fulfilment and Distribution; Forecasting and Computer Vision. We also dedicate Friday afternoons to self-learning and personal development.
This is a hands-on position where you will need to demonstrate your analytical approach to finding solutions to sophisticated problems. You will need to understand difficult business problems and prototype solutions with minimal support. Apply; modify and design algorithms and mathematical models to tackle business problems on top of big data architectures (Hadoop; Spark) is a core component of the role.
Our Senior Data Scientists need to be able to validate; document and present the modelling process and performances; as well as communicate sophisticated solutions in a clear; understandable way to non-experts.
Senior Data Scientists are also responsible for promoting data science across Tesco and promote Tesco across the external Data Science community.

Qualifications

We are looking for ambitious individuals with a mix of statistics; programming and machine learning/operational research skills. The role requires that you have an extensive background in machine learning/operational research and data mining. A track record in modifying and designing advanced algorithms and applying them to large data sets is essential.

An ideal candidate will have a scientific mentality with the ability to ask the right questions; as well as answer them. A strong numerical higher degree in a mathematical; scientific; engineering or computer science field is preferable; as well as a proven understanding of mathematics and statistical principles.

Experience in one or more of the following fields is required: predictive modelling; operational research; deep learning and time series modelling. Finally; strong programming experience (Python is preferred).

Additional Information

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