Technical Programme Manager

Tesco Bengaluru: We are a multi-disciplinary team creating a sustainable competitive advantage for Tesco by standardising processes, delivering cost savings, enabling agility, providing cutting-edge technological solutions and empowering our colleagues to do ever more for our customers. With cross-functional expertise in Global Business Services and Retail Technology & Engineering, a wide network of teams and strong governance we reduce complexity thereby offering high quality services for our customers. Tesco Bengaluru, established in 2004 to enable standardisation and build centralised capabilities and competencies, makes the experience better for our millions of customers worldwide and simpler for over 4,40,000 colleagues.
Tesco Technology consists of people from a number of different backgrounds, but having a common purpose to serve our shoppers a little better every day with our retail technological solutions. We shared a common interest in harnessing innovations in technology to enhance their shopping experience at Tesco stores. Whether making products, software or systems, our teams focuses on various aspects from taking strategic ownership of the architecture to delivering technological solutions such as design, testing, deployment, infrastructure, operation and security of the systems to ensure agile, smooth and safe operations. These help us to deliver the maximum business impact. Teams refine their internal processes to best fit their own needs, working to build core capabilities in application and services. We collaborate globally across teams to build end-to-end customer-facing solutions, as well as to share knowledge, experience, tools and techniques.
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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
- Managing dependencies; delivery timelines and implementations plans; using my knowledge of technical architecture
- Appreciating and responding 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
- 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.

An ideal candidate must have demonstrated below key skills in their current and past roles.
•A proven record of accomplishment in delivering programs with medium to large complexity at global scale.
•Experience of building credible relationships and influencing team members
•Excellent verbal and written communication skills – you must be able to articulate complex concepts to a diverse audience.
•The ability to influence without authority.
•Flexibility; ability to plan and organise; responsiveness; self-starter.
•Demonstrate resilience during change and continue delivery