Lead Technical Programme Manager Tesco Developer Platform (TDP)

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.

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

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