Senior Systems Engineer Collaboration & AI Platforms (Hybrid)

Tesco; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus up to 20%

25 days holiday + personal day

Private medical insurance

26 weeks maternity and adoption leave,

24/7 virtual GP and EAP

Job summary

Tesco Technology in Greater London is seeking a senior systems engineer to lead the design, delivery and evolution of collaboration and productivity platforms. You will own the technology strategy and execute roadmaps across Microsoft 365, collaboration services and emerging Generative AI capabilities, delivering solutions from concept to operational handover.

You will mentor engineers, influence vendor roadmaps and drive secure, resilient, scalable services with cost-conscious governance.

Qualifications

• Significant experience delivering complex collaboration or workplace platforms in a large-scale enterprise environment.
• Deep hands-on and architectural experience across Microsoft 365 services including Exchange, SharePoint, Teams, OneDrive, Power Platform, and Copilot technologies.
• Strong understanding of identity, security, compliance, data protection, and backup/recovery within Microsoft cloud ecosystems.
• Proven ability to manage technology lifecycles, vendor relationships, and commercial trade-offs.
• Strong communicator, able to influence senior stakeholders and partner effectively with architects, product managers, and suppliers.

Responsibilities

• Own the architectural strategy and roadmap for collaboration and productivity platforms, ensuring alignment to cost, security, governance, and colleague experience.
• Design and deliver new technologies and platform enhancements from conception through to operational support.
• Act as the senior engineering authority for collaboration technologies, representing Workplace Engineering across Tesco Technology and with vendors.
• Influence product and vendor roadmaps, contributing to commercial decisions and business cases.
• Ensure services are secure, resilient, scalable, and operable, with automation and service improvement built in by design.
• Coach and mentor engineers, driving consistent engineering standards and outcomes across the team.

Skills

Collaboration platforms

Architectural strategy

Stakeholder influence

Mentoring engineers

Tools

PowerShell

Microsoft 365

Azure

Job description

Tesco Technology in Greater London is seeking a senior systems engineer to lead the design, delivery and evolution of collaboration and productivity platforms. You will own the technology strategy and execute roadmaps across Microsoft 365, collaboration services and emerging Generative AI capabilities, delivering solutions from concept to operational handover.

You will mentor engineers, influence vendor roadmaps and drive secure, resilient, scalable services with cost-conscious governance.