Principal Software Development Engineer

1 month ago


London, Greater London, United Kingdom Tesco Full time
Principal Software Development Engineer

We are seeking a highly skilled Principal Software Development Engineer to join our Data Science Engineering team at Tesco. As a key member of our team, you will be responsible for delivering high-quality software solutions that shape our products and technologies.

Key Responsibilities:
  • Contribute to strategic planning, combining business vision and industry best practices to define technical strategy and make decisions.
  • Be involved in a number of projects associated with ongoing and new use cases, guiding large complex programmes of work, working with and influencing the engineering, product, programme, and business teams.
  • Own the design, implementation, and delivery of software that shapes products and technologies.
  • Be a thought leader for large and complex areas, typically working across multiple teams, setting standards for engineering excellence and efficient technical design.
  • Helping teams resolve hard problems, being hands on with design and coding.
  • Use your depth of skill and experience to enable multiple teams around you to deliver excellent software quickly.
  • Influencing build vs buy decisions, deprecate legacy software, and lead significant refactoring.
  • Help make the right trade-offs to influence the roadmap and sequencing of work to deliver early and often.
  • Leading stakeholders and teams to appropriate decisions with data points and foresight.
Requirements:
  • Strong understanding of the Software Development Lifecycle.
  • Demonstrable success from working across large engineering organisations, in and across engineering teams in a principal, technical lead or similar role.
  • Problem solving, analysis and computational skills.
  • You can communicate effectively and efficiently taking into account the nature of your audience.
  • Strong understanding of building secure, robust and maintainable software solutions.
  • Strong experience of automation, configuration management, multi-cloud and hybridisation, IAAS and PAAS.
  • Experience working with open-source Data-Science environments.
  • Experience building solutions that run in the cloud, ideally Azure.
  • Experience with big data technologies such as Spark and data pipelines.
  • Experience with different programming languages and a good grasp of at least one language. The ideal candidate is fluent in Python.
  • Commercial experience contributing to the success of high impact Data Science projects within complex organisations.
What We Offer:
  • Annual bonus scheme of up to 45% of base salary.
  • Car allowance of £7,320 per annum.
  • Holiday starting at 25 days plus a personal day (plus Bank holidays).
  • Buy holiday salary sacrifice scheme (for salaried roles).
  • Private medical insurance.
  • Retirement savings plan - save between 6% - 10% and Tesco will contribute 1.
  • Life Assurance - 5 x contractual pay.
  • 26 weeks maternity and adoption leave (after 1 years' service) at full pay, followed by 13 weeks of Statutory Maternity Pay or Statutory Adoption Pay, we also offer 4 weeks fully paid paternity leave.
  • The right to request flexible working from your first day with us.
  • 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.
  • A Colleague Clubcard for you & a family member (after 3 months of service), giving you access to lots of discounts in-store & online.
  • Access to our colleague networks providing a space for colleagues to come together from a range of backgrounds.


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