Front end software engineer (Adobe Analytics)

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About the role

The Analytics Capabilities team consists of the Analytics Product Managers, Data and Business Intelligence Analysts, Software Developers and Implementation Architects. The team is responsible for defining, prioritising and delivering the self-serve analytics strategy, user behavioural data tracking and optimisation capability. The Analytics Implementation squad, where this role sits, is within this team. The squad focuses on enabling more informed and faster decisions by designing new analytics implementations and re-implementations, raising the implementation coverage across core sites alongside data quality enhancements.

This position will suit a Javascript Web Developer that would be interested in working on data manipulation and data engineering. Working with strings, numbers, arrays, structured object to structure, filter and javascript algorithms for best performance. Knowledge in Web standards and security is a must have.

You will be responsible for:

• Coding, QA and configuration of analytics tracking code.
• Implement TMS (GTM) changes.
• Support advance platforms implementation through TMS.
• Integrate data sources via web APIs.
• Follow a data quality assurance process, including implementation, measurement and user acceptance testing.
• Transfer knowledge of the business processes and requirements to the development teams.
• Collaboration with Product, Development, Content, Marketing teams to collect business requirements and translate into effective tracking requirements.

This role will best suit an individual who enjoys working as part of a team, is well organised, pragmatic and a lateral thinker with an inquisitive mind who is motivated to make change for the better and, most importantly, puts our customers first.

You will need:

• Advanced knowledge in Web Technologies: HTML, CSS and JavaScript – whilst you are not going to be coding a full website and its features, we are coding core tracking methods in JavaScript with proper release cycles.
• Array and object manipulation, JSON data handling and other advanced methodologies and concepts.
• Strong working knowledge of Security for webpages, privacy and cookies.
• Able to write clean, readable and performant code.
• Considerable digital experience working on tracking implementations for Adobe and Google Analytics 4 and their respective Javascript APIs.
• Technical knowledge of Adobe and Google Analytics is essential.
• How it works under the hood, how to implement on eCommerce platforms and how to debug and verify own work.
• Solid grasp of digital analytics industry, tools and working practices.
• Prior experience in providing Analytics requirement for native mobile apps, able to demonstrate clear process for QA and sign-off – tools and methodologies.
• Experience of using analytics, data storage, data processing and business intelligence tools – SQL, BigData is a bonus.

Personal

• Strong communication skills with people of different skills and levels.
• Flexibility, ability to plan and organise, responsiveness, creativity, self-starter.
• Ability to demonstrate strong written, verbal communication and presentation skills to all levels of seniority and disciplines within the organisation.

What’s in it for you?

We’re all about the little helps. That’s why we make sure our Tesco colleague benefits package takes care of you – both in and out of work.

• Annual bonus scheme of up to 20% of base salary
• Holiday starting at 25 days plus a personal day (plus Bank holidays)
• Private medical insurance
• 26 weeks maternity and adoption leave (after 1 year’s 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
• 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

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.

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 have 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.

If you are applying internally, please speak to the Hiring Manager about how this can work for you – Everyone is welcome at Tesco.