Job Introduction
About the Data Team
The Data teams' vision is to enable all Tesco colleagues and partners to get value from data using analytics. Our strategy is to discover answers quickly and easily, by creating a 'single source of truth', accessible by a self-service model. We maintain and improve the platform to ensure that the dat is usable. Helps operate the Hadoop and Teradata clusters. Has been architected specifically to run analytics on a large data set. We support data science and other stakeholders across the business in creating data applications by ingesting data to make it available on the platform. Perform transformation and organise data. We create new insights by combining data sources, build dashboards and reports.   
 

Main Responsibilities
Technical Programme Managers (TPMs) deliver complex, cross-functional technology programmes that support colleagues and help serve our customers better. They work collaboratively, influence Product, Engineering and business colleagues and lead the programme to deliver value quickly and often.
Whilst specific responsibilities will be dependent upon the changing needs of the Tesco business, the following provides an overview of the role's key responsibilities and measures:

• Deliver programmes with business and/or technical risks
• Optimise or use a standard programme delivery methodology for delivering programme goals (e.g. agile, waterfall, iterative)
• Bring together, coordinate and energise virtual technology teams to deliver programme goals
• Create and track a plan to deliver the programme goals, including the technical implementation plan
• Understand trade-offs and resulting impacts; make impacts visible to Product, Infrastructure or Engineering for the right decision to be made
• Manage dependencies, delivery timelines and implementations plans, using my knowledge of technical architecture
• Appreciate and respond to delivery challenges, using my knowledge of engineering best practices and/or infrastructure implementations
• 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
• This role will best suit an individual who enjoys working as part of a team, is well organised, pragmatic and a lateral thinker with an inquisitive mind who is motivated to make change for the better and, most importantly, puts our customers first.

 

The Ideal Candidate
You'll need to have demonstrated experience of:

• Product Management
• Stakeholder Management
• Programme Management
• Communicating & Influencing Skills
• Past experience of working with Big Data tools and Technologies, usage or experience of Teradata, Hadoop, Spark or Scala would be an added advantage.

Personal

• Flexibility, ability to plan and organise, responsiveness, creativity, self-starter 
• Able to build solid working relationships with peers and senior leadership
• Ability to demonstrate strong written, verbal communication and presentation skills to all levels of seniority and disciplines within the organisation

 

About The Company
About Tesco
Our vision here at Tesco is to become every customer's favourite way to shop, whether they are at home, out shopping, on the move, anywhere in the world.
We want our customers to be inspired and whatever they are looking for, we're finding bigger and better ways to provide it.
Everything is underpinned by our continuous drive for the best tools and technology to deliver our vision. We're driving innovation and transforming our Technology to become the world's leading retailer.
We need people who share our ambition to deliver for our customers; Passionate and confident people willing to take the initiative and drive us forwards. In return we offer excitement, a great team, an excellent benefit package, and significant career development opportunities.
Joining us means playing a part in defining; building and launching an ambitious roadmap of digital products that could affect the lives of millions of people over the years to come.
If that sounds exciting then we'd love to hear from you.
The position will be based at our Plus Building, Welwyn Garden City.
 

Package Description
We offer excellent benefits that help make Tesco a great place to work.  These include but aren't limited to:
 

• An annual bonus scheme which you can achieve up to 3.5% of base salary
• Colleague Clubcard (including a 2nd card for a family member) after 6 months service with 10% off most purchases at Tesco
• Holiday starting at 25 days plus a personal day
• A retirement savings plan - 4%-7.5% contribution rate
• Life Assurance - 5 x contractual pay
• Buy As You Earn Scheme
• Save As You Earn Scheme
• Deals & Discounts through Tesco including Tesco Mobile & Tesco Bank
• Deals and Discounts through many other external businesses