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.

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.