Senior Cyber Security Partner

About the role

We are the trusted security advisors for Tesco Technology. Our purpose is to collaborate seamlessly with the product and engineering teams, leveraging our deep expertise in cyber security to design and implement robust, resilient solutions that protect our business and customers from cyber threats.

We are a dynamic and expanding global team of 15+ experts, serving as the strategic link between the wider security group and software engineering teams that develop cutting-edge services at scale to support the retail business.

Tesco Technology comprises of several technology domains with over 100+ teams, each entrusted with their own security. These teams enjoy significant autonomy, balanced by the responsibility to make customer-centric decisions and security. Rather than imposing controls through rigid processes and security gates, we empower these engineering teams to innovate by providing security guidance that helps them make informed decisions for Tesco. Encouragingly, these teams are enthusiastic partners in enhancing security, working more efficiently, and integrating security into every aspect of their ways of working. This collaborative approach sets us apart from traditional security teams. We proudly identify ourselves as Security Partners, not security police, emphasizing our role as the “trusted advisors” rather than enforcers.

Partners engage key people in engineering to make security contextual and frictionless. After all, security is a journey and there is no one-size-fits-all. Join the team and be part of this exciting journey!

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

As a Senior Security Partner, you will transform the security maturity of key product areas and teams. You will be the face of security group for them. Everything you do is in the context of the product, roadmap, its risk acceptance level, the technology stack, and its architecture.

You build a comprehensive understanding of the threat landscape and its potential risks to the business. Through effective partnership, you engage the leadership to make wellinformed decisions about security and privacy.

Being the trusted advisor

As enterprise applications become more distributed, adaptive to technological advancements, and run from hybrid infrastructure, teams need to navigate through different complexities and make key security decisions along the way. A trusted security advisor empowers teams to achieve scalable and sustainable security maturity throughout the SDLC (software development lifecycle) process.

In this job, I am accountable for:

Following our Business Code of Conduct and always acting with integrity and due diligence and have these specific risk responsibilities:

• Provide product and engineering teams with direction and guidance on all security matters. There is a whole security group to back you up, so it is not as scary as it sounds.
• Influence security outcomes through collaboration, expertise and constructive challenge.
• Define and review security requirements for critical business programmes, new products, services and technology initiatives.
• Engage engineering leadership on security roadmap and oversee security posture, while balancing security requirements with business objectives.
• Co-own the security roadmap, discuss, prioritise, and co-develop plans for remediation for the product areas, while building trusted relationships
• Enabling security champions to succeed and creating a strong feedback loop for improvements.
• Represent security in all product and architecture meet-ups. Be part of critical decisions about security.
• Oversee product security activities, from the early development of security requirements, architecture reviews, and threat modelling, to strengthening application security, mitigating supply-chain risks, securing secrets, pipelines, reviewing vulnerabilities, and infrastructure security.
• Perform security architecture reviews of third-party services.
• Identify acceptable risk levels and assist with action plan, policy, and procedural changes for risk mitigation. Prioritise security investment based on risk.
• Adopt a contextual risk-based approach and guide management in identifying business risks and potential impact to Tesco. Continuously seek both tactical and strategic solutions to enhance security.
• As the trusted security expert & advisor for the product area, engage across the security group to strengthen controls across identification, protection, detection, response, and recovery.
• Oversee assurance activities like security testing, purple testing, assurance, auditing.
• Reduce security fatigue for engineering and provide faster feedback within existing developer workflows, not adding another tool for them to check.
• Empower the teams you work with, but also challenge the status-quo.
• Advise on secure adoption of AI, GenAI and agentic technologies.
• Assess security risks associated with AI-powered products and services.
• As a senior member of the team, engage across the security group on new ideas and initiatives.
• Contribute to strengthen organisation standards and policies, develop cookbooks, secure patterns, take part in security research and tool evaluations.
• You are committed to continuous improvement, seizing opportunities, and inspire change for the team.
• Mentor others in the team and take part in enhancing their skills and career development.

You will need

To excel in this position, we expect you to have the following:

• Experience in having lead security assessments of large, complex, critical business programmes involving technical implementation and integrations.
• Possess experience across multiple sectors and have undertaken diverse roles in engineering and security. Demonstratable accomplishments of collaborating with leadership and management on security programmes and initiatives.
• Good knowledge of various security domains, and solid experience in architecture practices and design patterns - the technology might have changed but most of the security challenges have not.
• Experience in designing security and privacy controls with sound understanding of standards and regulation.
• Experience in threat modelling, attack trees, vulnerability chaining, applying MITRE ATT&CK framework.
• Good understanding of web applications, REST APIs, micro services, eventing, modern application frameworks, and mobile apps.
• Good understanding of software architecture, network topologies, SaaS, PaaS, IaaS (infrastructure as a service).
• Proficient in applying industry standards such as OWASP ASVS (Application Security Verification Standard), OWASP Top 10, CIS (Centre of Internet Security) controls and benchmarks.
• Experience with cloud native and hybrid architectures with an emphasis on containerised workloads and Kubernetes.
• Some development experience is always a plus - Java, cloud, Golang, python. You do not need to “be a developer” but we need you to understand the implications of security on engineering velocity.
• Experience in designing, deploying and operationalizing GenAI and Agentic AI solutions aimed at increasing efficiency and enhancing productivity
• Experience in driving measurable risk reduction and security maturity improvements.
• Degree in computer science / information systems or engineering field, or equivalent experience.
• Experience with regulations like GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation), PCI-DSS is desirable.
• Azure or AWS (Amazon Web Services) cloud security certifications is desirable.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and leadership skills.
• Stay informed on emerging threats, attack techniques and industry trends.

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.