Software Development Engineer II

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.

At Tesco Business Solutions, we have a mission to simplify, scale & partner to serve our customers, colleagues and suppliers through a best-in-class intelligent Business Services model. We do this by building a world class business services model by executing services model framework right at the heart of everything we do for our worldwide customers. The key objective is to implement and execute service model across all our functions and markets consistently. The ethos of business services is to free-up our colleagues from a regular manual operational work. We use cognitive technology to augment our key decision making. We also built a Continuous Improvement (CI) culture across functions to drive bottom-up business efficiencies by optimising processes. Business services colleagues need to act as a business partner with our group stakeholders to build a collaborative partnership driving continuous improvement across markets and functions to lead the best customer experience by serving our shoppers a little better every day.

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

The engineers in Retail Demand Forecasting team build the data pipelines that ensure that the results from our forecast algorithms are accurate; timely and relevant; and the work you can do in the domain will go beyond the usual duties of a backend engineer. Apart from being exposed to cutting edge big data and data engineering technologies; you will work closely with data science and engineering teams applying algorithms to improve the engine behind the services.
- About 7-9 years and at least 6 years relevant experience
- Python; Pyspark; HDFS development and components according to a detailed design document.
- Build efficient; reusable and reliable python code per industry best practices.
- Extensive experience with distributed computing specifically Big Data and Data lake architecture. Technically competent to influence and understand the solution context and approach (legacy; tactical; strategic)
- Follow the best practices of continuous BDD/TDD/Performance/Security/Smoke testing. Ensure unit-test coverage meets quality requirements.
- Develop Integration tests to ensure coding adheres to acceptance criteria and verify end-to-end behaviour of the system.
- Ensure best possible performance; quality and responsiveness of applications.
- Support production systems; resolve incidents and perform root cause analysis

 

Qualifications

Data Engineering; Python; Pyspark; HDFS; CA7; Oozie; Sqoop etc 

Additional Information

Important Notice: 

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Accordingly, please check the authenticity of any such offers before acting on them and where acted upon, you do so at your own risk. Tesco Bengaluru shall neither be responsible for honouring or making good the promises made by fraudulent third parties, nor for any monetary or any other loss incurred by the aggrieved individual or educational institution. 

In the event that you come across any fraudulent activities in the name of Tesco Bengaluru, please feel free report the incident at recruitment_compliance_india@tesco.com