Principal Software Development Engineer

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.
Tesco Technology consists of people from a number of different backgrounds, but having a common purpose to serve our shoppers a little better every day with our retail technological solutions. We shared a common interest in harnessing innovations in technology to enhance their shopping experience at Tesco stores. Whether making products, software or systems, our teams focuses on various aspects from taking strategic ownership of the architecture to delivering technological solutions such as design, testing, deployment, infrastructure, operation and security of the systems to ensure agile, smooth and safe operations. These help us to deliver the maximum business impact. Teams refine their internal processes to best fit their own needs, working to build core capabilities in application and services. We collaborate globally across teams to build end-to-end customer-facing solutions, as well as to share knowledge, experience, tools and techniques.
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

As a Principal Software Development Engineer; you are key in shaping large parts of Tesco's technical landscape. You contribute to strategic planning; combining business vision and industry best practices to define technical strategy and make decisions. You typically work across multiple teams; setting standards for engineering excellence and efficient technical design. You are hands-on and guide teams to improve technology across product portfolios; infrastructure; and processes. As a senior technical expert; you are a thought leader for large and complex areas. You set technical direction to translate strategy into action; making a significant impact to the organisation. You own the design; implementation; and delivery of software that shapes products and technologies. You use your depth of skill and experience to enable multiple teams around you to deliver excellent software quickly.
You are accountable For - Your impact would be across the directorate that you are a member of; but also reaches beyond to effect change across the wider organisation.
- You solve problems and deliver solutions that impact the whole engineering organisation.
- You would generally expect to be given a very high-level problem to work on; but everything after that is you: 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.
- As a senior technical authority; you deliver value that materially changes outcomes for the company; and your job is not just about your technical judgement but also your ability to influence others to deliver results.
- You guide large complex programmes of work; working with and influencing the engineering; product; programme; and business teams. In doing so you influence build vs buy decisions; deprecate legacy software; and lead significant refactoring.
- You guide one or more areas and define the strategic design keeping security; scalability; extensibility; and reusability in mind.
- You build strategy documents; designs and code which are exemplary and serve as a model for others.
- You have a strong communication and influencing skills to resolve disputes and to lead stakeholders to appropriate decisions with data points and foresight.
- You write critical path code; having a good appreciation of the whole stack.
- You routinely come up with PoCs to evaluate approaches or technology choices to enable or accelerate programmes.
- You are an authority on multiple technologies and in multiple domains; senior engineers from other teams come to you for advice on the architecture of their products.
- You are a proponent of an effective engineering community that encourages learning for all.
- You innovate and stay ahead of industry trends; competition; and new paradigms and share appropriately.
Required Experience - Successfully played the role of Engineering Thought Leader across large engineering organisations.
- Demonstrated experience in designing; developing; and running whole system landscapes. Experienced in acting as a technical authority across multiple domains and multiple technologies. Experienced in proposing architectural patterns for adoption by an organisation.
- Experienced in defining and leading the architectural evolution to achieve desired outcomes around Scalability; Resiliency; Performance and Reliability
- Experienced in influencing senior leaders on engineering strategy.
- Experienced in guiding large programmes of work.

Qualifications

•Programming Excellence
•Architecture and System Design Excellence
•Expertise in Infrastructure design with Public and Private Cloud
•Championing Software Security
•Expertise in troubleshooting Operations and Maintenance issues
•Software Product delivery methodologies
•Retail Technology Awareness
•Expertise in Data Analytics & Insights
•Great Communication & Influencing skills
•Strategic Thinking & Problem Solving
•Curiosity & Learning

Additional Information

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