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Tesco

Grocery and general merchandise retailer

Lead Technical Programme Manager

Program ManagementPosted on Nov 6
Full-timeBengaluru, Karnataka, IndiaNo salary listed

About the Job

Requirements

  • A proven record of accomplishment in delivering technology across multiple teams and geographies.
  • Experience building credible relationships and influencing senior management and leadership teams.
  • Ability to plan and organise, respond effectively, and work creatively as a self-starter.
  • Knowledge of programme methodologies, risk management, programme governance, business awareness, communication and influencing, data analytics and insight, strategic thinking and problem solving, finance and procurement, change enablement, curiosity and learning, product methodologies, retail technology, and the development life cycle.
  • Good knowledge of systems, software, and data engineering and implementation best practices.
  • Ability to understand technology concepts, learn new concepts quickly, and appreciate their implications for delivery.
  • Ability to understand and drive technical architecture to anticipate impacts on dependencies, delivery timelines, and implementation plans.

Responsibilities

  • Lead and deliver programmes involving multiple business and technical risks that affect key Tesco business priorities.
  • Define and track performance against customer and business key performance indicators.
  • Manage risks and issues and influence multiple dependent teams.
  • Establish new or improve existing delivery methodologies to achieve programme goals.
  • Create and track plans to deliver programme goals, including the technical implementation plan; own the release plan, stakeholder communications, and weekly governance.
  • Understand delivery trade-offs and use experience and influencing skills to build consensus with business, technology, and engineering teams to achieve the best value and solution.
  • Anticipate risks and issues, establish processes, facilitate discussions, and manage escalations.
  • Act on opportunities to adopt trends and new concepts in programme and product delivery.
  • Manage major incidents and ensure stakeholders receive appropriate updates to support decisions.
  • Collaborate with product and engineering teams to define annual budget requirements.
  • Build positive relationships with suppliers and external stakeholders to deliver software or professional services.
  • Coach peers and other roles on methodologies and programme management tools, and coach or mentor them on leadership.
  • Lead other technical programme managers and coordinate their plans into the wider programme plan.
  • Play an active leadership role in the technical programme management guild and community, influencing capability and capacity planning for technical programme managers.
  • Support and coordinate user research and onboarding learnings with product and engineering teams, ensuring insights inform product decisions without owning discovery.
  • Own onboarding of teams and workloads enabled by platform capabilities, ensuring smooth adoption and time-to-value.
  • Track onboarding progress, identify bottlenecks, and accelerate adoption across target teams.
  • Provide product teams with feedback on onboarding friction, unmet needs, and demand patterns to inform capability prioritisation.
  • Coordinate platform, product, and engineering teams to scale adoption of platform capabilities and ensure consistent rollout and reuse.
  • Align infrastructure, security, and platform stakeholders to enable adoption at scale.
  • Communicate programme progress, risks, and trade-offs to senior technology stakeholders and maintain visibility into delivery status, the onboarding pipeline, and capability readiness.
  • Champion a platform-as-a-product operating model, promoting standardisation, simplification, and improved developer experience.

About the Company

Tesco

Grocery and general merchandise retailer

Tesco is best understood as a multinational grocery and general-merchandise retailer. The group combines customer-facing retail with distribution, digital, commercial, and analytical capabilities. It serves households through stores and online shopping while also operating wholesale, data-science, and financial-service businesses. Work spans stores, fulfillment, supply chain, product, technology, data, finance, and group functions. The scope reflects Tesco PLC and its principal business lines without implying every role sits in the core supermarket operation.

Company size
Not listed
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
Broxbourne, United Kingdom
Founded
1919

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