Senior Applied 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 even more for our customers. Our expertise spans across Global Business Services and Retail Technology & Engineering, and with a wide network of teams and strong governance, we reduce complexity and offer high quality services for our customers. Established in 2004, Tesco Bengaluru's aim is to standardise and build centralised capabilities and competencies, enhancing the experience for millions of our customers worldwide and making things simpler for over 440,000 colleagues.
At Tesco Business Solutions, our mission is to simplify, scale, and partner to serve our customers, colleagues and suppliers through a best-in-class intelligent Business Services model. We are dedicated to implementing/executing our service model consistently across all functions and markets. We use cognitive technology for decision making and aim to free up our colleagues from mundane manual operational work. We also focus on creating a continuous improvement culture across functions to drive efficiency by optimising processes. Our Business Services colleagues act as business partners with our group stakeholders to build a collaborative partnership driving continuous improvement across markets and functions to deliver the best customer experience.
Here at Tesco, inclusion means Everyone's Welcome. We value individuality and uniqueness which generates a sense of belonging and create a sense of belonging.
Diversity and inclusion have always been integral to Tesco. It is embedded in our values: we treat people how they want to be treated. We want our colleagues to feel comfortable being themselves at work and we are committed to helping them be at their best.
We are dedicated to building an inclusive workplace across the Tesco group, a place where the cultures, personalities and preferences of our colleagues are celebrated, driving our success and reflecting the diversity of the communities we serve.

Job Description

- Responsible for completing tasks and transactions within agreed KPIs - Solve problems by analyzing solution alternatives
-Engage with business & functional partners to understand business priorities; asking relevant questions and scoping into an analytical solution document highlighting how the application of data science will improve decision making
- In-depth understanding of techniques to prepare the analytical data set leveraging multiple complex data source
- Constructing Statistical models and ML algorithms with practitioner level competency
- Writing structured, modularized & codified algorithms using Continuous Improvement principles with expert competency
- Building a user-friendly visualization layer on top of the algorithms to empower end-users to make decisions
- Working with the line manager to ensure application/consumption and proactively identifying opportunities to help the larger Tesco business with areas of improvement - Keeping up-to-date with the latest in data science and retail analytics and disseminating the knowledge among colleagues

Qualifications

- Applied Math: Applied Statistics, Design of Experiments, Regression, Decision Trees, Forecasting, Optimization algorithms, Clustering, NLP
- Tech Skills: SQL, Hadoop, Spark, Python, Tableau, MS Excel, MS Powerpoint, GitHub
- Business Skills: Basic understanding of the Retail domain
- Soft Skills: Analytical Thinking & Problem solving, Storyboarding, Articulate communication

Additional Information

Application Deadline - 27th Oct 2023