Engineering Manager (Machine Learning Engineering)
IT / Data Management
Full Time
About the role 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 Software Development Manager in Data Science Engineering, within Data & Analytics, you’ll lead software development in one of Tesco’s most strategic technology areas. You’ll work with our software engineers, data scientists, product managers, systems engineers, and analytics professionals to build robust software products that deliver valuable outcomes for our customers. You will be responsible for the software throughout the lifecycle; we maintain a DevOps culture, employing continuous integration and delivery, supporting our code through to production and beyond.
In the Data and Analytics team, we focus on solving complex business problems enabling the use of data across Tesco and engineering data products that can be deployed at scale to our customers. Our work spans critical business areas including Stores, Online, Fulfilment, CRM and loyalty across the countries where we operate. What is in it for you Salary
UoP: 31 000 - 40 000 PLN gross/month
Hybrid working
We know life looks a little different for each of us. That’s why at Tesco, we always welcome chats about different flexible working options. Some people are at the start of their careers, some want the freedom to do the things they love. Others are going through life-changing moments like becoming a carer, adapting to parenthood, or something else. So, talk to us throughout your application about how we can support.
This role requires you to be based in or near Kraków, as you will spend 60% (3 days) of your week collaborating with colleagues at our office locations or local sites and the rest remotely.
Our benefits
Tesco is a diverse and exciting employer, dedicated to being #aplacetogeton, providing career-defining opportunities to all of our colleagues. If you choose to join our business, we will provide you with:
Specifically, you will:
• Foster the careers of the engineers reporting into you by findingopportunities for growth, coaching, addressing concerns and implementingperformance management.• Continuously improve our engineering practices across data scienceproducts to operate at pace and at scale, using and promoting MLOpspractices to deliver quality production software.• Work closely with Product Management to identify and minimise risk withinan outcome and help prioritise and evolve a workable technical solutionready for delivery.• Contribute to group discussions on system design and architecture.• Contribute to our platform strategy.• Build globally, ensuring consistency in approach across all our locations.• Inspire the engineering teams to produce quality solutions.• Grow the capability of Tesco Technology as a whole by becoming involved inour engineering hiring and being passionate about building successful anddiverse teams.• Contribute to building a team culture for continuous improvement and anenvironment where engineers want to work.• Continually look for how we can evolve and improve our technology,processes and practices.• Keep your technical skills up to date and monitoring new technologies,processes, understanding how they might benefit the Technology team andwider Tesco. You will need Experience relevant for this job:
• Experience with management of software engineering teams.• Track record of driving technical excellence and change.• Experience working in a global team distributed across multiple locations.• Very strong understanding of the Software Development Lifecycle.• Experience working with multiple software development methodologiesincluding Scrum & Kanban.• ML engineering including feature engineering, versioning and packaging,model training and distribution.• Strong experience working with distributed computing frameworks.• Architecture of solutions to integrate Data Science products into clientapplications.• Enterprise integration patterns, microservice architectures and eventsourcing.• Containerisation ecosystems and other resource, workflow andorchestration systems.• Experience of automation, configuration management, multi-cloud andhybridisation, IAAS and PAAS.
Skills relevant for the job:
• Problem solving, analysis and computational skills. You are comfortabledesigning systems and reasoning about them. When tackling problems, youtake a thorough and logical approach to solving them and you retainownership through to resolution.• A high degree of emotional intelligence: you are aware of your ownemotions, how you appear and can self-reflect on your actions. You canempathise with others and modify your behaviour and style accordingly.• Strategic thinking, with a demonstrable ability to see the big picture andarticulate it in a way that drives action.• Customer focus. You can find the right balance between outcome deliveryand technical excellence. You place the needs of our customers as thehighest priority.• Excellent written and verbal communication skills. You can communicateeffectively and efficiently, knowing your audience and making an impact.• Team player who works collaboratively with other members of the team.• Ability to influence technical teams and senior stakeholders About us Our colleagues work with one goal in mind, helping to make every day a little better for our customers, colleagues and communities all over the world. No two customers are the same, neither are our colleagues.
At Tesco, we champion a balance that lets you thrive both in and out of work. Spend 60% of your week collaborating with colleagues at our office locations or local sites and the rest remotely. Whether you're just kicking off your career, juggling passions, or navigating big life events, we're here to support you.
Tesco is committed to celebrating diversity and everyone is welcome at Tesco. As a Disability Confident Employer, we’re committed to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process, allowing candidates the opportunity to thrive and inform us of any reasonable adjustments they may require.
Want to get to know us better? Watch our team talk about our culture – YouTube
What our colleagues like the most at Tesco:
As Software Development Manager in Data Science Engineering, within Data & Analytics, you’ll lead software development in one of Tesco’s most strategic technology areas. You’ll work with our software engineers, data scientists, product managers, systems engineers, and analytics professionals to build robust software products that deliver valuable outcomes for our customers. You will be responsible for the software throughout the lifecycle; we maintain a DevOps culture, employing continuous integration and delivery, supporting our code through to production and beyond.
In the Data and Analytics team, we focus on solving complex business problems enabling the use of data across Tesco and engineering data products that can be deployed at scale to our customers. Our work spans critical business areas including Stores, Online, Fulfilment, CRM and loyalty across the countries where we operate. What is in it for you Salary
UoP: 31 000 - 40 000 PLN gross/month
Hybrid working
We know life looks a little different for each of us. That’s why at Tesco, we always welcome chats about different flexible working options. Some people are at the start of their careers, some want the freedom to do the things they love. Others are going through life-changing moments like becoming a carer, adapting to parenthood, or something else. So, talk to us throughout your application about how we can support.
This role requires you to be based in or near Kraków, as you will spend 60% (3 days) of your week collaborating with colleagues at our office locations or local sites and the rest remotely.
Our benefits
Tesco is a diverse and exciting employer, dedicated to being #aplacetogeton, providing career-defining opportunities to all of our colleagues. If you choose to join our business, we will provide you with:
- Up to 20% yearly salary bonus – based on both individual and business performance
- Permanent contract from the go – as a sign of our trust in your abilities
- Tax-deductible expenses (IP)
- Private healthcare (LuxMed)
- Cafeteria & Multisport
- Additional 4 days of paid leave to support your well-being and family life
- Increase in annual leave (from 20 to 25 days) for those not yet eligible for the full holiday entitlement
- Learning opportunities – certified technical training and a learning platform (Udemy)
- Back-to-school day – 1 day off for parents of primary school children
- Fertility leave – up to 2 weeks of paid leave for IVF treatment
- Sports activities with a personal trainer in the office
- Referral bonus
- MacBook as your work tool
Specifically, you will:
• Foster the careers of the engineers reporting into you by findingopportunities for growth, coaching, addressing concerns and implementingperformance management.• Continuously improve our engineering practices across data scienceproducts to operate at pace and at scale, using and promoting MLOpspractices to deliver quality production software.• Work closely with Product Management to identify and minimise risk withinan outcome and help prioritise and evolve a workable technical solutionready for delivery.• Contribute to group discussions on system design and architecture.• Contribute to our platform strategy.• Build globally, ensuring consistency in approach across all our locations.• Inspire the engineering teams to produce quality solutions.• Grow the capability of Tesco Technology as a whole by becoming involved inour engineering hiring and being passionate about building successful anddiverse teams.• Contribute to building a team culture for continuous improvement and anenvironment where engineers want to work.• Continually look for how we can evolve and improve our technology,processes and practices.• Keep your technical skills up to date and monitoring new technologies,processes, understanding how they might benefit the Technology team andwider Tesco. You will need Experience relevant for this job:
• Experience with management of software engineering teams.• Track record of driving technical excellence and change.• Experience working in a global team distributed across multiple locations.• Very strong understanding of the Software Development Lifecycle.• Experience working with multiple software development methodologiesincluding Scrum & Kanban.• ML engineering including feature engineering, versioning and packaging,model training and distribution.• Strong experience working with distributed computing frameworks.• Architecture of solutions to integrate Data Science products into clientapplications.• Enterprise integration patterns, microservice architectures and eventsourcing.• Containerisation ecosystems and other resource, workflow andorchestration systems.• Experience of automation, configuration management, multi-cloud andhybridisation, IAAS and PAAS.
Skills relevant for the job:
• Problem solving, analysis and computational skills. You are comfortabledesigning systems and reasoning about them. When tackling problems, youtake a thorough and logical approach to solving them and you retainownership through to resolution.• A high degree of emotional intelligence: you are aware of your ownemotions, how you appear and can self-reflect on your actions. You canempathise with others and modify your behaviour and style accordingly.• Strategic thinking, with a demonstrable ability to see the big picture andarticulate it in a way that drives action.• Customer focus. You can find the right balance between outcome deliveryand technical excellence. You place the needs of our customers as thehighest priority.• Excellent written and verbal communication skills. You can communicateeffectively and efficiently, knowing your audience and making an impact.• Team player who works collaboratively with other members of the team.• Ability to influence technical teams and senior stakeholders About us Our colleagues work with one goal in mind, helping to make every day a little better for our customers, colleagues and communities all over the world. No two customers are the same, neither are our colleagues.
At Tesco, we champion a balance that lets you thrive both in and out of work. Spend 60% of your week collaborating with colleagues at our office locations or local sites and the rest remotely. Whether you're just kicking off your career, juggling passions, or navigating big life events, we're here to support you.
Tesco is committed to celebrating diversity and everyone is welcome at Tesco. As a Disability Confident Employer, we’re committed to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process, allowing candidates the opportunity to thrive and inform us of any reasonable adjustments they may require.
Want to get to know us better? Watch our team talk about our culture – YouTube
What our colleagues like the most at Tesco:
- We develop our own products
- We make an impact; large scale of operation
- Accountability and respect are given to us
- We cooperate and support each other
- There are great colleagues who are divided into small teams here
- We can develop and learn new things
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