Senior Analytics Engineer - Cyber Data Platform
Competitive salary
London

About the role

As the Senior Analytics Engineer on the Cyber Analytics team, you will be key in designing and leading the implementation of transforming the raw data into organised, usable, well-documented, and tested data models. These data models will empower security teams to draw insights and develop reporting capability, advanced analytics, machine learning, and GenAI solutions to enhance our security defences. You will collaborate closely with cross functional security and data teams to ensure the security data is reliable, accurate and accessible. Also, you will contribute to the analytics platform architecture and mentor junior team members to deliver high-quality data products for cybersecurity.

At Tesco, we believe in the power of spending more time together, face to face, than apart. So, during your working week, you can expect to spend 60% of your time in one of our office locations or local sites and the rest remotely. We also recognise that life looks a little different for each of us. 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, nearing retirement, adapting to parenthood, or something else. That’s why at Tesco, we always welcome a conversation about flexible working. So, talk to us throughout your application about how we can support.

You will be responsible for

• Data Integration and Transformation: Lead the implementation of data transformation and automated data quality frameworks to move data across the raw, trusted, and curated layers of the data lake, delivering reliable data products to security users.
• Data Modelling: Design, build and manage the logical and physical data model which are discoverable, accessible and reliable to support various threat detection, analysis and reporting capabilities.
• Coding and Documentation: Contribute to raising the quality bar of the team's codebase by producing high quality ETLs, conducting thorough peer reviews, and proactively providing constructive feedback to other team members on their code.
• Automation: Implement various automations practices to streamline the deployment, configuration, and management of data models, ETLs and data quality frameworks.
• Collaboration and Communication: Collaborate with various security teams, effectively communicating data concepts and data product solutions to individuals with different levels of data expertise.

You will need

• A strong passion for bigdata, data modelling, data quality and ETLs
• Solid programming experience with Python/PySpark along with proficiency in SQL
• Extensive working experience with ETL and ELT frameworks and orchestration tools like Airflow and dbt
• Experience building robust data models on cloud services like Databricks on Azure and implementing automated data quality frameworks and related controls
• Experience working with BI tools like Tableau
• Good practical understanding of version control systems such as Git and CI/CD process
• Ability to provide clear input, guide, empower junior members of the team to achieve desired outcomes
• Knowledge of cybersecurity principles and practices Expertise in ETL and ELT frameworks for large scale realtime and batch data processing, with hands-on experience in orchestration tools like Airflow and dbt.
• Experience implementing enterprise BI tools like Tableau for visualisation and dashboard reporting
• Familiarity with distributed processing and stream processing frameworks
• Ability to provide clear input, guide, opportunities to help engineers develop and advance.
• Knowledge of cybersecurity principles and practices.

What’s in it for you

We’re all about the little helps. That’s why we give our wonderful colleagues bags of benefits. Including wellbeing services, an award-winning pension scheme and much, much more, our colleague reward package keeps on giving. And helps make every day a little better for you and your family. These include but are not limited to:

• Annual bonus scheme of up to 20% of base salary
• 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 4% and 7.5% and Tesco will match your contribution
• 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
• Great colleague deals and discounts, saving you money on everyday purchases, eating out and utility bills for the home
• Access to our colleague networks providing a space for colleagues to come together from a range of backgrounds. For more information about our colleague networks please click here
• Opportunities to get on - take advantage of our ongoing learning opportunities and award-winning training, to help you achieve the job and career you want

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About us

Our vision at Tesco is to become every customer's favourite way to shop, whether they are at home or out on the move. Our core purpose is ‘Serving our customers, communities and planet a little better every day’. Serving means more than a transactional relationship with our customers. It means acting as a responsible and sustainable business for all stakeholders, for the communities we are part of and for the planet.

We are proud to have an inclusive culture at Tesco where everyone truly feels able to be themselves. At Tesco, we not only celebrate diversity, but recognise the value and opportunity it brings. We're committed to creating a workplace where differences are valued, and make sure that all colleagues are given the same opportunities. We’re proud to have been accredited Disability Confident Leader and we’re committed to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process. For further information on the accessibility support we can offer, please click here.

We’re a big business and we can offer a range of diverse full-time & part-time working patterns across our many business areas, which means that we can find something that works for you. We work in a more blended pattern -combining office and remote working. Our offices will continue to be where we connect, collaborate and innovate.