Cyber Data Platform Engineering Manager (Hybrid)

Tesco; Welwyn Garden City; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus up to 20%

25 days + personal day

Private medical insurance

Maternity/adoption leave 26+13 weeks +

6 weeks paternity leave

24/7 virtual GP & EAP

Job summary

Tesco in Welwyn Garden City is seeking an Data Platform Engineering Manager to lead a team delivering real-time, near real-time and batch security data platforms. You will drive architecture, integration, and automation to enable advanced analytics, ML and GenAI capabilities for threat detection and incident response.

The role focuses on hiring, developing talent, and partnering with security teams. A hybrid pattern combines office and remote collaboration as Tesco supports flexible working

Qualifications

• Experience as an Engineering Manager leading cyber data teams.
• Strong coding in Python or Java and SQL proficiency.
• Experience with cloud platforms (Azure) and big data tech (Spark, Flink).
• Strong Kubernetes, CI/CD and Terraform knowledge.
• ETL/ELT frameworks and orchestration tools like Airflow.
• Hiring, developing and retaining cyber data platform talent.
• Ability to guide and empower teams and collaborate across levels.

Responsibilities

• Lead design and management of data platform supporting threat detection, incident response and analytics.
• Oversee data integration and transformation pipelines across security sources into the security lake.
• Ensure data security and regulatory compliance for platform data.
• Implement automation and DevOps practices for deployment and management of data platform components.
• Recruit and develop cyber data team; provide reporting to leadership; manage external providers and partners.

Skills

Engineering Manager

Python/Java

SQL

Azure

Spark

Flink

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Terraform

Airflow

Cybersecurity

Job description

Tesco in Welwyn Garden City is seeking an Data Platform Engineering Manager to lead a team delivering real-time, near real-time and batch security data platforms. You will drive architecture, integration, and automation to enable advanced analytics, ML and GenAI capabilities for threat detection and incident response.

The role focuses on hiring, developing talent, and partnering with security teams. A hybrid pattern combines office and remote collaboration as Tesco supports flexible working