Systems Engineer III – Collaboration Engineering

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

About the role

We're looking for a senior systems engineer to lead the design, delivery, and evolution of collaboration and productivity platforms across Tesco. The role owns technology strategy and roadmap execution across Microsoft 365, collaboration services, and emerging Generative AI capabilities, developing solutions fromconcept through to operational handover.

You will be responsible for

• 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 tooperational 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.

You will need

• 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.

Nice to have:

• Advanced PowerShell and automation skills.
• Experience with large-scale data migration and hybrid environments.
• Exposure to Azure infrastructure and virtualisation platforms.

Whats in it for you?

• 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 (after 1 years' service) 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

About Us

Our vision at Tesco is to become every customer's favourite way to shop, whether they are at home or out on the move. Our core purpose is 'Serving our customers, communities and planet a little better every day'. Serving means more than a transactional relationship with our customers. It means acting as a responsible and sustainable business for all stakeholders, for the communities we are part of and for the planet.

We're proud to have been accredited Disability Confident Leader and we're committed to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process.

We're a big business and we can offer a range of diverse full-time & part-time working patterns across our many business areas, which means that we can find something that works for you. We work in a more blended pattern - combining office and remote working. Our offices will continue to be where we connect, collaborate and innovate. If you are applying internally, please speak to the Hiring Manager about how this can work for you - Everyone is welcome at Tesco.