Lead Technical Programme Manager

About the role

About Tesco Developer Platform (TDP)

Tesco Developer Platform (TDP) is at the heart of Tesco’s technology strategy, enabling engineering teams to build, deploy and operate software at scale. TDP provides a paved path for developers by offering reusable platform capabilities, standardised tooling, and self-service infrastructure. The platform is built as a product, focusing on developer experience, reliability, and speed of delivery, while embedding security and operational excellence by design.

Role Context

As a Lead Technical Programme Manager within TDP, you will operate at the intersection of platform engineering, product management, and large-scale programme delivery. You will drive complex, cross-cutting initiatives that improve developer productivity, enable consistent engineering practices, and accelerate value delivery across Tesco’s technology landscape.

Impact & Scope

Core Programme Leadership

• Lead the TDP as a coordinated programme across capability build, platform rollout, and consumer onboarding, ensuring alignment across product, engineering, and dependent teams.
• Establish and run effective programme governance, managing cross-team dependencies, risks, and delivery against agreed outcomes and timelines.

Product-Programme Partnership

• Partner closely with Product leadership to enable delivery of the roadmap, ensuring sequencing of capabilities and dependencies is executable, but remaining aligned to product-led prioritisation and decision-making.
• Translate product roadmap and capability sequencing into a coherent, cross-team delivery plan, ensuring readiness across infrastructure, security, and platform teams.

Adoption & Onboarding

Own the onboarding of teams and workloads that are unblocked by available platform capabilities, ensuring smooth adoption and time-to-value.

• Drive programme-level visibility of onboarding progress, identifying bottlenecks and accelerating adoption across target teams.
• Provide clear signal and feedback to Product on onboarding friction, unmet needs, and patterns of demand to inform future capability prioritisation.

Driving Platform Adoption & Growth

• Coordinate across platform, product, and engineering teams to scale adoption of TDP capabilities, ensuring consistent rollout and reuse across the organisation.
• Align stakeholders across infrastructure, security, and platform domains to unlock adoption at scale.

Execution & Communication

• Communicate programme progress, risks, and trade-offs clearly to senior technology stakeholders, ensuring transparency and informed decision-making.
• Maintain a clear view of delivery status, onboarding pipeline, and capability readiness across all participating teams.

User Insight Enablement

Support and coordinate user research and onboarding learnings with Product and Engineering teams, ensuring insights are surfaced and fed into product decisions (without owning discovery).

Platform Mindset

• Champion a platform-as-a-product operating model, reinforcing standardisation, simplification, and developer experience improvements across teams.

Job Summary

As a Lead Technical Programme Manager, you will deliver complex, cross-functional technology programmes that support colleagues and help serve our customers better. They work collaboratively, influence Product, Engineering, Capability, Infrastructure and Security colleagues and lead the programme to deliver value quickly and often.

What is 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.

You will be responsible for

Job Responsibilities

• Lead and deliver programmes with multiple business and technical risks that will impact the success of key Tesco business priorities
• Define and track performance against customer and business KPIs
• Managing Risks and Issues and influencing multiple dependent teams
• Establish new or improve existing delivery methodology to deliver the programme goals
• Create and track a plan to deliver the programme goals, including the technical implementation plan. Owning the release plan and stakeholder communication and weekly Governance
• Understand trade-offs in delivery, using experience and influencing skills to drive consensus with our Business, Technology and Engineering teams to obtain the best value and solution
• Able to foresee potential risks and issues, establish a process, facilitate discussion, and manage escalations
• Act on opportunities to adopt trends and new concepts in programme and product delivery
• Able to understand and drive a technical architecture to be able to foresee the impact on dependencies, delivery timelines and implementation plans
• Have good knowledge of System, Software and Data engineering and implementations best practices to appreciate delivery challenges
• Understand technology concepts, grasp new ones quickly and appreciate their implications on delivery
• Effectively manage major incidents, ensuring stakeholders are updated with the right information to drive the correct decisions
• Collaborate with the Product and Engineering teams to define annual budgetary requirements
• Build positive relationships with suppliers & external stakeholders to deliver software or professional services
• Coach peers and other roles, teaching where required, on methodologies and programme management tools and coach/mentor on leadership
• Leading other TPMs in the team and coordinating their plans into wider programme plan
• Play an active leadership role in the TPM guild and community - proactively influencing capability and capacity planning for TPMs

You will need

Key People and Teams

Software Development teams, Product Management teams, Programme teams, Capability, Infrastructure, Security and Third party vendors.

Experience

Have a proven record of accomplishment in delivering technology across multiple teams in multiple geographies

Have experience of building credible relationships and influencing senior management & leadership teams

Flexibility, ability to plan and organise, responsiveness, creativity, self-starter

Operational Skills

Programme Methodologies

Managing Risk

Programme Governance

Business Awareness

Communicating and Influencing

Data Analytics and insight

Strategic thinking and problem solving

Finance and Procurement

Embracing and Enabling Change

Curiosity and Learning

Core Technology

Product Methodologies

Retail Technology Awareness

Development Life-cycle

Work Level

I balance exceptional delivery for customers on what matters, engaging teams and colleagues, with the needs of the business. I am an expert and often the first layer of management of people or projects.

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.

When you join Tesco Bengaluru in this role, you'll be employed by Tesco Bengaluru Private Limited, the Tesco legal entity responsible for your employment.