Job Description

Tesco UK • Welwyn Garden City • Hybrid • Full-Time • Working hours 36 • Apply by 19-Sep-2026

About the role

As System Engineer for Data Platforms you are an integral part of Tesco Technology's Data and Analytics team. You have accountability for the engineering excellence of the data platform,

realising this from the current state and evolving engineering practices to meet the changing demand. You use your technical breadth and depth to build and operate mission critical systems at scale inspiring engineering community you interact with.

Successfully transforming the way we build and operate platforms, allowing SW engineering platform consumers to focus on value add work will be a key activity.

What is in it for you

We’re all about the little helps. That’s why we make sure our Tesco colleague benefits package takes care of you – both in and out of work. Click Here to find out more!

• Annual bonus scheme of up to 20% of base salary.
• Holiday starting at 25 days plus a personal day (plus Bank holidays).
• Private medical insurance.
• 26 weeks maternity and adoption leave (12 months service required at the qualifying date) at full pay, followed by 13 weeks of Statutory Maternity Pay or Statutory Adoption Pay, we also offer 6 weeks fully paid paternity leave.
• Free 24/7 virtual GP service, Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) for you and your family, free access to a range of experts to support your mental wellbeing.

The above information is a shortened summary, refer to our policies for full details

You will be responsible for

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:

• Establishing and sharing the engineering excellence for data platforms.
• Building the data platforms to transform them without impact to existing levels of service.
• Designing solutions that will operate at scale.
• Contributing to supplier roadmaps.
• Inspiring the engineering team to produce quality solutions.
• Keeping up with Industry trends.
• Building globally, ensuring consistency in approach throughout all our locations.
• Ensure operational stability is balanced with engineering and roadmap delivery.
• Contributing to building a team culture for continuous improvement and an environment where engineers want to work.
• Continuously sharing feedback with the engineering teams for them to meet the required quality standards.
• Driving adoption of new tools and techniques being able to understand their value and impact.
• Keep your technical skills up to date and keep track of new technologies, processes, understanding how they might benefit the Technology team and wider Tesco.

You will need

Experience relevant for this job:

· Track record of managing mission critical, large scale service in a global organisation

· Strong technical knowledge of large scale, complex platforms.

· Track record of using automation to build platforms and prevent problem recurrence.

· Ops experience in automated delivery such as continuous integration, continuous deployment and immutable infrastructure

· Depth and breadth of knowledge (cloud computing, networks, infra as code)

· Contributing to the Opensource community

· Working in a globally distributed team.

Skills relevant for the job:

· Excellent written and verbal communication skills

· A methodical/ analytical approach and great problem-solving skills

· Team player who could work collaboratively with other members of the team

· Cloud Technologies

· Awareness of Compute, Storage, Networking and Virtualisation in a distributed compute environment

· Infrastructure as Code

· Linux OS fundamentals and troubleshooting

· Networking – TCP/IP, routing, DNS, DHCP, Loadbalancers

· Scripting / coding skills – Bash, Python, Golang or similar

· Java / Scala fundamentals and troubleshooting

· Desired State Configuration Tools – one of Chef, Puppet, Ansible, Terraform or similar

· Containers – Docker, lxc, Kubernetes.

· Creating CI/CD Pipelines for delivery

Systems architecture, security and Disaster Recovery

About us

In the Data and Analytics team, we focus on solving complex business problems developing products that can be deployed at scale to our customers. Our work spans across multiple platforms that support business areas including Stores, Online, Fulfilment, Marketing and Clubcard.

Our core work involves designing and building the data platforms that will support development of data products that can be deployed at scale both internally and externally.

Why Tesco?

Our business was built with a simple mission – to be the champion for customers, helping them to enjoy a better quality of life and an easier way of living. This hasn't changed. Customers want great products at great value which they can buy easily and it's our job to deliver this in the right way for them.

In the UK, we serve some 66 shoppers every second, so it's our goal to ensure every one of those customers experiences just a little better service on each visit.

We want our customers to be inspired and whatever they are looking for, we’re finding bigger and better ways to provide it.

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.

If that sounds like something you’d like to be a part of, please get in touch!