John Lewis Partnership

Company Name: John Lewis Partnership
Job Title: Data Science Manager
Job Description: About The Role

The core of this role is to help the Partnership make insight-driven, better informed, customer-centric decisions specifically in our Commercial, Retail and Supply Chain domains. In order to do this, you will need to work closely with teams across these domains Partnership, getting close to their world, hearing their problems and spotting the opportunities to make improvements. You will use your analytical mindset and knowledge of the customer to improve the speed and quality of decision making. A Data Scientist focused on the Commercial, Retail and Supply Chain domains would typically solve problems such as Demand Forecasting, Price Optimisation and a range of other Constrained Optimisation tasks such as optimising markdowns to reduce food waste or setting the optimal safety stock in Distribution Centres. This role sits within a central Data Science team that covers John Lewis, Waitrose and John Lewis Money. We are looking for someone who is passionate about solving these types of business problems across a broad spectrum of techniques that extend far and wide across consumer facing touchpoints that drive real impact in day to day situations. The successful applicant will play a hands-on role in shaping, building and deploying business solutions alongside stakeholders and other Data Scientists and ML Engineers.

At a glance

This is a hybrid working role, therefore your time will primarily be split between working from home and the London/ Head Office. However, there will also be an expectation to visit other locations as the need arises.

Our team currently works from the office once a week to connect and on a more ad-hoc basis to attend key meetings, but again the frequency is dependent on the business needs.

Expected Salary - £59,000 - £85,000

Contract type - This position is a permanent role.

What You Will Do

You will be self-motivated and be able to work effectively together with a range of stakeholders to improve business decision making using data science methods.

You will be accountable for our roadmap and deliverables within an assigned business domain within Commercial, Retail and Supply Chain. This will also mean managing the associated stakeholders and team members within that domain.

Day-to-day, you will:

Analyse and link complex data sets so that they can support actionable insight and recommendations.
Identify ideas and take ownership of opportunities to drive business impact with data science.
Transform data and build models to optimise customer experience, profit revenue generation, cost reduction and other business outcomes.
Be passionate about statistics and machine learning and be able to convey a thorough understanding of the benefits and use cases of these across the business to a variety of audiences.
Design and develop end-to-end solutions to business problems, from defining the problem, through solution development, to implementation and driving business adoption.

Internally the vacancy is known as Insight Manager, Data Science

Essential Skills And Experience

Hands-on Expertise: Proficient in data science, with coding experience in Python and SQL, and the ability to mentor others.
Technical Proficiency: Experience with ML Ops (Dataiku and Vertex AI), Git version control, and software engineering best practices.
Problem-Solving and Innovation: A passion for tackling business challenges and applying new data science techniques.
Communication and Collaboration: Excellent communication skills, experience working in cross-functional teams, and the ability to build data science roadmaps with stakeholders.
Business Acumen: Adept at working with stakeholders to identify and prioritise key problems, and optimise against KPIs to achieve their objectives.

Desirable Skills And Experience

People management experience
Retail and grocery work experience
Experience using Agile methodologies
Experience with Cloud technologies (ideally GCP).

Next Steps

The application form consists of a CV upload, followed by application questions. Please save the application questions to a Google docs before entering on Workday.
Internal applicants please copy paste this link on to the browser for job outline - https://bit.ly/InsightsMgrDS
Once you've submitted an application the next steps of the process, if successful, will include a 1st stage virtual interview followed by a more detailed Stage 2 Interview.
You'll be asked about any adjustments you might need to support the recruitment process. Let us know, and we'll be sure to discuss it with you.

About The Partnership

We’re the largest employee owned business in the UK and home of our cherished brands, John Lewis and Waitrose. We’re not just employees, we’re Partners, driven by our purpose to build a happier world. As we look to our future, there’s never been a more exciting time to join us.

We’re ruthlessly focused on being brilliant at retail. We continue to innovate, adapt and diversify. Never Knowingly Undersold on price, quality and service in John Lewis and passionately serving food-lovers in Waitrose.

As Partners we all share the responsibility of ownership and in its rewards. We use our voices to contribute to our success, working together through the good and challenging times, holding true to our behaviours and treating everyone with kindness and respect.

We all own making the Partnership somewhere we belong. Embracing our differences and creating an environment where we’re free to be ourselves and can THRIVE. Growing ourselves individually, and as a collective.

As Partners, we make all the difference. And, we all own it.

Important points to note:

It’s important to note that some of our roles are subject to pre-employment vetting (which may include DBS checks for successful candidates). If required, you’ll be informed and provided with information about vetting during the recruitment process and we encourage you to complete any vetting documents quickly to avoid delays. Any DBS checks required will be carried out by a third-party registered body and financial probity checks may also be required for some of our roles.

We also recommend that you apply as soon as possible as vacancies can close early if we see a high number of applicants.

We want all of our Partners to have a good work-life balance and we support flexible working. This might mean flexible or compressed hours, job sharing or shorter hour contracts, where possible. Please discuss this further with the hiring manager during your interview.

London, United Kingdom

Hybrid

03-04-2025

Company Name: John Lewis Partnership
Job Title: Senior Backend Engineer
Job Description: About The Role

As the UK’s most successful omni-channel retailer, ecommerce is a key part of our business - we run two of the busiest websites in the UK, driving a significant proportion of our sales. Our engineering practice includes 80+ teams, working on everything from Cloud platforms to mobile apps, from ecommerce functionality to machine learning. Have a quick glance of our Engineering best practices, see our engineers talk about their experience and opportunities to learn and grow; Check out our Tech stack, reach out to us if you have any questions. Visit - https://www.jlpjobs.com/engineering-jobs/

At a glance

Flexible Working: This is a hybrid working role, therefore your time will primarily be split between working from home (in the UK) and London Head Office / Bracknell Head Office. However, there will also be an expectation to visit other locations as the need arises.
Our Engineering team currently works from the office roughly twice a week to connect and on a more ad-hoc basis to attend key meetings, but again the frequency is dependent on the business needs.
Expected Salary : £59,500 - £92,400 (depending upon experience)
Contract type: Permanent

What will you be doing?

This is an opportunity to join one of our agile product teams working as a Senior Back-End Software Engineer. You will be using your excellent Kotlin or Java skills to build and support new features adding value for Our Business
As a Senior Engineer, you will also use your knowledge of Software Engineering to lead the shaping of new projects and support the professional development of less experienced Engineers.
There are opportunities to become a people manager for your fellow engineers if that is something that appeals to you
Successful candidates will have a passion for using technology to deliver outstanding and innovative software solutions, and will have a track record of working in teams delivering complex, performant, high quality software.

Internally this role is known as Product Engineer (L6).

Essential Skills/experience You’ll Need

Extensive experience leading, coaching and mentoring individuals/teams
Expertise in either server side Kotlin or a modern version of Java.
A structured approach to systems analysis and development.
A good understanding of Microservice Architectures.
Experience with application frameworks such as http4k or Spring Boot.
An understanding of Agile development methods such as Scrum or Kanban.
Demonstrable experience in TDD, pair programming.
Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery
REST API development and/or consumption.

Desirable Skills/experience You May Have

Experience with Cloud Platforms such as AWS, GCP or Azure
Docker, Kubernetes
Jenkins, Gitlab CI.

Additional Information:

The application form consists of an online assessment, CV upload, followed by application questions. Please visit - https://www.jlpjobs.com/how-to-apply/journey/ to understand more about application and hiring process
If you are successful following your initial application, the next stages are: a screening telephone call with a recruiter, tech assessment and up to two rounds of interviews
You'll be asked about any adjustments you might need to support the recruitment process. Please let us know, and we'll be sure to discuss it with you.

About The Partnership

We’re the largest employee owned business in the UK and home of our cherished brands, John Lewis and Waitrose. We’re not just employees, we’re Partners, driven by our purpose to build a happier world. As we look to our future, there’s never been a more exciting time to join us.

We’re ruthlessly focused on being brilliant at retail. We continue to innovate, adapt and diversify. Never Knowingly Undersold on price, quality and service in John Lewis and passionately serving food-lovers in Waitrose.

As Partners we all share the responsibility of ownership and in its rewards. We use our voices to contribute to our success, working together through the good and challenging times, holding true to our behaviours and treating everyone with kindness and respect.

We all own making the Partnership somewhere we belong. Embracing our differences and creating an environment where we’re free to be ourselves and can THRIVE. Growing ourselves individually, and as a collective.

As Partners, we make all the difference. And, we all own it.

Important points to note:

It’s important to note that some of our roles are subject to pre-employment vetting (which may include DBS checks for successful candidates). If required, you’ll be informed and provided with information about vetting during the recruitment process and we encourage you to complete any vetting documents quickly to avoid delays. Any DBS checks required will be carried out by a third-party registered body and financial probity checks may also be required for some of our roles.

We also recommend that you apply as soon as possible as vacancies can close early if we see a high number of applicants.

We want all of our Partners to have a good work-life balance and we support flexible working. This might mean flexible or compressed hours, job sharing or shorter hour contracts, where possible. Please discuss this further with the hiring manager during your interview.

London, United Kingdom

Hybrid

04-04-2025

Company Name: John Lewis Partnership
Job Title: Information Security Engineering Lead
Job Description: About The Role

Join the John Lewis Partnership’s Information Security Engineering team and play a crucial role in protecting our customers, Partners and business from evolving cyber threats. The John Lewis Partnership’s Information Security strategy is bold and ambitious. We provide a collection of security services, delivered through people, processes and technology. Working collaboratively, these services ensure that customers can shop with us efficiently, safely and securely, every single day. A key component of this is the Threat Defence team. A group of Partners (employees) who play a vital role in the defence of our systems and data from cyber attacks. This is a team with a very broad set of responsibilities, including the monitoring of threats and vulnerabilities and the engineering and testing of key security defences. We’re looking for an experienced Information Security Engineering Lead to take on a lead role within our Security Engineering service. In this role you’ll be overseeing the delivery of new security capabilities and ensuring that our Security Operations Centre remains equipped to defend against the latest cyber security threats. This is a fantastic opportunity to get hands-on with market leading next-generation cyber security tools where you'll be empowered to lead and innovate within an agile, supportive and collaborative team environment.

At a glance

Expected Salary - £65,000 - £85,000 depending on experience
Contract type - Permanent
Working pattern/flexible working - This role is based at the Bracknell Head Office, with an opportunity for hybrid working. Your time will primarily be split between Bracknell (current normal expectation 1 day per week) and working from home. There will also be an expectation to infrequently visit other locations as the need arises.
Our Infosec team currently works from the office every Tuesday to connect and on a more ad-hoc basis to attend key meetings, but again the frequency is dependent on the business needs.
There will be a need for on-call support as part of a callout rota, where you will be expected to be available for out of hours support approximately one week in 5. Specific rota requirements can be planned around leave and other personal commitments.

What you’ll be doing:

This is a highly technical engineering role, where you’ll be hands-on developing and maintaining our security operations tooling. You’ll use your technical expertise to guide and support the work of other Security Engineers, following agile development practices to deliver the tooling required for our Information Security strategy.
The initial focus of this role is to lead the delivery and maintenance of our SentinelOne EDR tooling, however you’ll have the opportunity to get hands on and lead the engineering of a wide variety of security tooling across a broad set of areas including SIEM, network security, cloud security, email security and Zero Trust.
You’ll bring your technical leadership to projects, leading the delivery of new security tooling as a respected Information Security expert and working with technology teams to ensure that new technologies are sufficiently secure and protected.
You’ll work closely with colleagues and senior leaders from technology teams outside of Information Security and will maintain strong relationships with strategic vendors to ensure a secure Partnership.

What you’ll have (Essential Skills):

Hands-on experience in a senior Security Engineering role, overseeing and leading a group of Security Engineers
Demonstrable experience in delivering and/or maintaining EDR tooling. Specific experience leading the deployment or engineering of SentinelOne would be of particular benefit.
A proven track record working as part of an agile delivery team, following agile best practices such as Scrum or Kanban.
Experience collaborating with development, operations and infrastructure teams, preferably in a security context
A working knowledge of security best practice, including frameworks such as Mitre ATT&CK and NIST.

What else you could bring (Desirable Skills):

Proficiency in working with or developing SIEM tooling and SIEM detections/alerts.
Proficiency in Google SecOps (Google Chronicle) would be particularly beneficial.
In-depth knowledge of network security, including principles such as zero trust and network security tooling such as zScaler.
Experience securing cloud platforms and applications using tooling such as CASB, CSPM, SSPM or similar.
Specific knowledge of GCP and Google Security Command Center would be beneficial.
Formal accreditation in Information Security such as a related degree, ISC2 CISSP or similar.

Additional Information

The application form consists of a CV upload, followed by application questions. Please save the application questions to a Google docs before entering on Workday for future reference.
Internal applicants please copy paste this link on to the browser for job outline - https://bit.ly/InfosecEnggLead
If you are successful following your initial application, the next stages are: a screening telephone call with a recruiter, two rounds of interviews.

About The Partnership

We’re the largest employee owned business in the UK and home of our cherished brands, John Lewis and Waitrose. We’re not just employees, we’re Partners, driven by our purpose to build a happier world. As we look to our future, there’s never been a more exciting time to join us.

We’re ruthlessly focused on being brilliant at retail. We continue to innovate, adapt and diversify. Never Knowingly Undersold on price, quality and service in John Lewis and passionately serving food-lovers in Waitrose.

As Partners we all share the responsibility of ownership and in its rewards. We use our voices to contribute to our success, working together through the good and challenging times, holding true to our behaviours and treating everyone with kindness and respect.

We all own making the Partnership somewhere we belong. Embracing our differences and creating an environment where we’re free to be ourselves and can THRIVE. Growing ourselves individually, and as a collective.

As Partners, we make all the difference. And, we all own it.

Important points to note:

It’s important to note that some of our roles are subject to pre-employment vetting (which may include DBS checks for successful candidates). If required, you’ll be informed and provided with information about vetting during the recruitment process and we encourage you to complete any vetting documents quickly to avoid delays. Any DBS checks required will be carried out by a third-party registered body and financial probity checks may also be required for some of our roles.

We also recommend that you apply as soon as possible as vacancies can close early if we see a high number of applicants.

We want all of our Partners to have a good work-life balance and we support flexible working. This might mean flexible or compressed hours, job sharing or shorte...

Bracknell, United Kingdom

Hybrid

29-04-2025

John Lewis Partnership

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