Technical Programme Manager - Online

Online Platform Team – Overview

The Online Platform team provides the core technology foundations that power Tesco’s web and app experiences across the end-to-end customer journey. They enable product teams to build, test and release features quickly, safely and at scale, ensuring a high-quality and consistent customer experience across all digital touchpoints.

How the team supports the online journey

• Provides shared platform services and APIs that underpin critical journeys (e.g. browse, basket, checkout)
• Ensures performance, reliability and scalability of web and app platforms to support millions of customers
• Enables seamless experiences across web and mobile, reflecting different customer behaviours and missions (e.g. app for frequent use, web for larger or considered purchases)
• Drives continuous improvements in customer experience, engagement and conversion

How the team supports development

• Creates reusable components to reduce duplication and accelerate delivery across teams
• Improves development and testing environments to increase engineering productivity and confidence
• Supports higher release frequency and faster time to market through standardised platform capabilities and tooling

As a Technical Programme Manager in the Online Platform team, you will lead the delivery of complex, cross-functional programmes that enhance Tesco’s web and app experience. You will drive improvements in quality, accelerate time to market, increase app delivery velocity, and ensure delivery against key Tech Excellence outcomes.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end delivery of platform programmes that improve web and app customer experience
• Drive quality, reliability and performance improvements across the platform
• Accelerate delivery through optimised release management, dependency management, and engineering collaboration
• Increase app velocity by enabling aligned, outcome-driven delivery across Product and Engineering teams
• Define and execute clear programme plans, managing risks, dependencies and trade-offs
• Establish strong governance, ensuring transparency on progress, risks and value delivery
• Partner closely with Product, Engineering and Architecture to balance short-term delivery with long-term platform strategy
• Deliver against annual Tech Excellence priorities (e.g. engineering standards, platform maturity, operational excellence)

• Experience delivering complex, cross-functional technology programmes
• Strong understanding or aptitude to learn web/mobile platforms, architecture and engineering practices
• Ability to influence senior stakeholders and align teams on outcomes
• Expertise in Agile/Lean delivery and driving continuous improvement
• Strong focus on customer experience, quality and measurable outcomes and cycle-time analysis

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