Software Development Engineer II

About the role
As a Software Development Engineer 3 at Tesco; you hold a senior Individual Contributor role; demonstrating active technical leadership with proven impact across teams and the wider directorate. You take ownership and accountability for product development within your domain; contributing to organisational capabilities through coaching; mentoring; and involvement in hiring processes.
In this position; you drive the development of data engineering solutions; ensuring a balance between functional and non-functional requirements. Your responsibilities include planning and leading data engineering activities for strategic; large; and complex programs; monitoring the application of data standards and architectures; and contributing to organisational policies and guidelines for data engineering.
As a technical leader; you play a crucial role in influencing technology choices; providing perspective across teams; and actively participating in critical product design and architecture efforts. You excel in delivering impactful projects; demonstrating technical expertise; and contributing to the maturity of development processes. Comfortable in managing priorities and navigating ambiguity; you utilize data-driven decision-making and effectively communicate with your team and stakeholders.
Working within a multidisciplinary agile team; you are hands-on with product implementation across the entire stack; including infrastructure and platform-related efforts. Your role involves developing scalable data applications; ETL; Data Lake implementation; and Analytics processing pipelines. Additionally; you lead a team of Data Engineers in a technical capacity; providing guidance and mentorship to junior and mid-level team members.

You will be responsible for

What youll do:
• Big data development experience for large enterprise
• Experience in building streaming pipeline using spark streaming; Kafka/event hub or similar technology stack
• Experience to develop; implement and tune distributed data processing pipelines that process large volume of data
• Strong experience in Architecture and Design for building enterprise scale product with focus on scalability; low-latency; and fault-tolerance.
• Expertise in writing complex; highly-optimized SQL queries & Data Pipelines across large data sets
• Must be able to work effectively in a team setting as well as individually.
• Ability to communicate and collaborate with external teams and stakeholders.
• Must have growth mindset to learn and contribute across different modules or services.

What youll bring:
- Working knowledge of Big Data Engineering; Ingestion & Integration with Third party / in house Data sources; built Metadata Management; Data Quality; Master Data Management Solutions;Structured/Unstructured data
- Excellent written and oral communications kills.
- Self-starter with quick learning abilities.
- Multi-task and should be able to work under stringent deadlines.
- Ability to understand and work on various internal systems.
- Ability to work with multiple stakeholders.
- Leading multi-skilled agile team and delivering high visibility and high impact projects


You will need
Mandatory skills: Spark; Scala or Java (Scala preferred); Cloud Native; SQL and Data structures

Experience range: 8 to 11.
Skills
• Experience in Hadoop; Spark and Distributed computing frameworks.
• Professional hand-on experience in Scala.
• Professional hand-on experience in Sql and Query Optimization.
• Strong computer science fundamentals: Data Structure and Algorithms
• Experience in programming design patterns.
• Experience in system design.
• Should have Experience with CI/CD tool like Git; Docker and Jenkins etc.
• Should have hand-on experience in Data processing and Data manipulation skills like Data warehousing concepts; SCD types etc.
• At least one cloud exposure (Azure is preferred).
• Exposure to Streaming data use-cases via kafka or structured streaming etc.
• Experience of NoSQL; Messaging Queue; Orchestration Framework (Airflow/Oozie)
• Exposure to multi-hop Architecture would be added advantage
• Working knowledge of Ceph; Docker; Kubernetes & Kafka Connect is added advantage
• Working experience with Data Lakes; Medallion Architecture; Parquet & Apache Iceberg is desirable
• Prefer to have Experience in Data Governance tools such as Alation; Collibra; Data Quality;Data Lineage and MetaData

Minimum Qualifications:
Bachelors degree in computer science; information technology; engineering; information systems and 8+ years’ experience in software engineering or related area at a technology; retail; or data-driven company.
Qualifications
Mandatory skills: Spark; Scala or Java (Scala preferred); Hadoop; System Design; Data Architecture; ;Cloud Native; SQL and Data structures
• Working knowledge of Ceph; Docker; Kubernetes & Kafka Connect is added advantage
• Working experience with Data Lakes; Medallion Architecture; Parquet & Apache Iceberg is desirable
• Exposure to Streaming data use-cases via kafka or structured streaming etc.
• Experience of NoSQL; Messaging Queue; Orchestration Framework (Airflow/Oozie)

Whats in it for you?

At Tesco, we are committed to providing the best for you. 
 
As a result, our colleagues enjoy a unique, differentiated, market- competitive reward package, based on the current industry practices, for all the work they put into serving our customers, communities and planet a little better every day. 
 
Our Tesco Rewards framework consists of pillars - Fixed Pay, Incentives, and Benefits.  
 
Total Rewards offered at Tesco is determined by four principles -simple, fair, competitive, and sustainable. 
 
Salary - Your fixed pay is the guaranteed pay as per your contract of employment. 
 
Leave & Time-off - Colleagues are entitled to 30 days of leave (18 days of Earned Leave, 12 days of Casual/Sick Leave) and 10 national and festival holidays, as per the company’s policy. 
 
Making Retirement Tension-FreeSalary - In addition to Statutory retirement beneets, Tesco enables colleagues to participate in voluntary programmes like NPS and VPF. 
 
Health is Wealth - Tesco promotes programmes that support a culture of health and wellness including insurance for colleagues and their family. Our medical insurance provides coverage for dependents including parents or in-laws. 
 
Mental Wellbeing - We offer mental health support through self-help tools, community groups, ally networks, face-to-face counselling, and more for both colleagues and dependents.  
 
Financial Wellbeing - Through our financial literacy partner, we offer one-to-one financial coaching at discounted rates, as well as salary advances on earned wages upon request.  
 
Save As You Earn (SAYE) - Our SAYE programme allows colleagues to transition from being employees to Tesco shareholders through a structured 3-year savings plan.  
 
Physical Wellbeing - Our green campus promotes physical wellbeing with facilities that include a cricket pitch, football field, badminton and volleyball courts, along with indoor games, encouraging a healthier lifestyle. 

About Us
At Tesco, inclusion is at the heart of everything we do. We believe in treating everyone fairly and with respect, valuing individuality and uniqueness to create a true sense of belonging. Diversity and inclusion are deeply embedded in our values—we treat people how they want to be treated. Our goal is for all colleagues to feel they can be themselves at work, and we are committed to helping them thrive. Across the Tesco group, we are building an inclusive workplace that actively celebrates the cultures, personalities, and preferences of our colleagues, who in turn contribute to the success of our business and reflect the diversity of the communities we serve. 
 
 At Tesco Bengaluru, we are proud to be a Disability Confident Committed Employer, highlighting our commitment to creating a supportive environment for individuals with disabilities. We are dedicated to offering equal opportunities for all candidates and encourage applicants with disabilities to apply. Our recruitment process is fully accessible, and we are happy to provide reasonable adjustments during interviews. If you need any accommodations to participate in the recruitment process, please let us know. We are here to ensure that everyone has the chance to succeed. 
 
 We also believe in fostering a work environment where you can excel both professionally and personally. Our hybrid model allows you to work flexibly—spend 60% of your week collaborating in person with colleagues at our office locations or local sites, and the rest of the time working remotely. We understand that everyone’s life journey is unique, whether you are starting your career, pursuing passions, or navigating life changes, and we are here to support you. Flexibility is a core part of our culture, and we encourage open conversations about how we can best accommodate your needs, so talk to us throughout your application process on the support required.

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