[LRUG] Tesco is in the market for talent

[Henry Garner]

John,

Thanks for the post. I'd be interested to see the detailed job spec  
you mention.

Best regards,
Henry

On 18 Mar 2010, at 14:14, jds <jds340 at gmail.com> wrote:

> All on the LRUG mailing list
>
> I've been contracting at Tesco for a few months working to develop  
> an RoR app for an intraweb hosted analysis package with a Teradata  
> backend. The results are very promising and we're now looking for  
> talented RoR developers to help during the roll-out phase as the  
> project goes live for all Tesco's UK stores.
>
> You'll be working at their head office in Cheshunt embedded in a  
> team of about 20 maths/physics/computer science grads on various  
> mathematical models for optimizing the supply chain to cut waste and  
> improve availability. This is not cool web 2.0 stuff, it's tedious,  
> practical coding using Ruby to manage data in a very large data  
> warehouse to do valuable heavy lifting. We're breaking new ground  
> pushing Ruby into an enterprise setting and getting good results and  
> now we're looking to take on more RoR people. Initially it'll be for  
> a 3 month contract (market rates). As well as Ruby skills you'll  
> need to be very comfortable with complex SQL.  Anyone interested in  
> detailed a job spec please email me.
>
> Also if there's anyone out there with good maths skills (i.e.  2.1  
> and better in maths/physics/computer science) who fancies a permie  
> job as a business analyst, please email me and I'll send the job  
> spec for those positions as well. Tesco wants you!
>
> Cheers
>
> John Small
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