Principal Software Development Engineer

Within the Data Analytics team we help Tesco; our customers and the communities where we operate to 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.

As Principal Software Development Engineer Data Engineering within Data Analytics you ll drive the technical direction of one of Tesco s most strategic technology areas. You ll work with our software engineers; product managers; systems engineers; data scientists and analytics professionals to help move us forward in our technical strategy whilst delivering valuable outcomes for our customers. You ll work within and across our Data Analytics teams offering them architectural guidance and support as well as having the freedom to spend time looking ahead and proving out new approaches; technologies and tools.

You will work with other senior engineers and Principals to effect change across the wider Technology organisation; delivering value that materially changes outcomes for the company; influencing others to deliver results.

You will be responsible for

- Defining and driving the development of our technical strategy for evolving our Data Engineering capabilities.
- Guiding large complex programmes of work; working with and influencing the engineering; product; programme; and business teams regarding build vs buy decisions; deprecation of legacy software; or significant refactoring.
- Continuously improving our engineering practices in Data Engineering to operate at pace and at scale.
- Hands-on delivery of strategic outcomes.
- Contributing to our platform strategy.
- Working across Tesco Technology on wider technical initiatives and strategy.
- Building globally; ensuring consistency in approach across all our locations.
- Inspiring the engineering teams to produce quality solutions;
- Contributing to building a team culture for continuous improvement and an environment where engineers want to work.
- Continually look for how we can evolve and improve our technology; processes and practices.
- Keeping your technical skills up to date and keep track of new technologies; processes; understanding how they might benefit the Technology team and wider Tesco.
- Guiding Data Engineering by defining strategic designs keeping security; scalability; extensibility; and reusability in mind.

You will need

Experience relevant for this job:

- Experience working in and across engineering teams in a principal; technical lead or similar role.
- Track record of driving big technical change.
- Experience working in a global team distributed across multiple locations.
- Very strong understanding of the Software Development Lifecycle.
- Data and domain modelling; domain driven design; data standards and data architectures (tabular; graph; document; multi-model).
- Strong experience working with distributed computing frameworks.
- Enterprise integration patterns; microservice architectures and event sourcing.
- ML engineering including feature engineering; versioning and packaging; model training and distribution.
- Containerisation ecosystems and other resource; workflow and orchestration systems.
- Strong experience of automation; configuration management; multi-cloud and hybridisation; IAAS and PAAS

Skills relevant for the job:

- Problem solving; analysis and computational skills. You are comfortable designing systems and reasoning about them. When tackling problems; you take a thorough and logical approach to solving them and you retain ownership through to resolution.
- Ability to take a very high-level problems and work on identifying and formalising the problem; converting it into a simple technical solution; leading its implementation; and training the rest of the organisation to use it.
- Customer focus. You can find the right balance between outcome delivery and technical excellence. You place the needs of our customers above the needs of you and the team.
- Written and verbal communication skills. You can communicate effectively and efficiently taking into account the nature of your audience.
- Team player who works collaboratively with other members of the team.
- Strong communication and influencing skills to resolve disputes and to lead technical teams and stakeholders to appropriate decisions with data points and foresight.

Principal Software Development Engineer for Data Engineering.