Technology Controls Manager

Tesco Insurance; City of Edinburgh; Hybrid; GBP 63,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading insurance provider is seeking a Technology Controls Manager in Edinburgh to oversee risk management and compliance. This hybrid role requires strong leadership and communication skills, along with the ability to assess and manage operational risks across the organization. The candidate should be proficient in developing policies and frameworks and guiding senior leadership in risk-related activities. The position offers a competitive salary of £62,800 plus benefits, including a performance-related bonus.

Benefits

Annual bonus

Private healthcare

Generous holiday allowance

Colleague clubcard discount

Pension scheme

Critical illness cover

Family-oriented initiatives

Qualifications

• Experience in leading risk management initiatives.
• Expertise in communication and stakeholder engagement.
• Understanding of operational and strategic risk matters.

Responsibilities

• Lead the execution of risk and control frameworks.
• Provide guidance on operational and strategic risks.
• Communicate and share risk knowledge across the organization.

Skills

Leadership skills

Strong communication skills

Influencing skills

Risk identification and management

Policy development

Analytical skills

Education

Relevant ISACA qualification (CISM, CRISC, CISA, CISSP)

Job description

Serving our customers, communities, and planet a little better every day.

Salary – from £62,800 + annual bonus & benefits

Work Level - 2

Location - Edinburgh

Office Attendance – Our roles are hybrid; you should be able to work in our offices 2 days per week.

Closing date – Monday 15th December 2025

We deal in the personal – from home insurance for peace of mind, to motor insurance for your dream car or travel money for that trip you’ve worked hard for. And that means we always work with heart. Whether we’re helping our customers or looking after our people, you’ll find there’s a warmth and friendliness to everything we do.

Opportunity

We’re looking for a Technology Controls Manager to join our Insurance Money and Services team. The purpose of Technology Controls is to provide Controls and Risk Management leadership enabling colleagues to make the right decision. You’ll partner with Senior Leadership Team to execute and oversee a robust activity risk and control framework that identifies, prioritises risks and sets appropriate controls across all challenges of business.

You’ll be a subject matter expert who provides advice and guidance to the value stream(s) on Operational and Strategic risk matters. Helping maintain the integrity of, and compliance with, our enterprise-wide risk management framework.

Your role will help embed risk knowledge and understanding across the organisation through regular communication and on‑going knowledge sharing.

The Role

• Demonstrating good Leadership skills.
• Strong communication skills & good influencing skills to positively challenge and enable key stakeholders.
• Applies expertise to act as the authority on identifying, assessing, prioritising and managing risk.
• Developing and/or delivering elements of a strategic planning system with guidance from senior colleagues.
• Developing functional or operational policies and helping develop policy frameworks for area of responsibility or departments.
• Effective planning, organisation, prioritisation skills to efficiently meet business objectives.
• Works to monitor, interpret and understand policies and procedures.
• Analyses potential solutions and creates recommendations based on the expected benefits, costs, and overall value of the solution for key stakeholders.
• Working at an advanced level to understand business context, needs, rules, and architecture, as well as our organisational structure.
• Experience in assurance activity (including control testing) of key controls.
• Reviewing, assessment, and remediation of access management related controls.
• Acting as subject matter expert in an area of technology, policy, regulation, or operational management for the team.
• Maintaining external accreditations and in-depth understanding of current and emerging external regulation and industry best practices.

You’ll have (min exp)

• Comprehensive job‑related competency and experience in own area of expertise.
• Communicating the actions needed to implement our strategy and business plan within the team; explaining the relationship to the broader Tesco mission, vision and values.
• Experience of planning and managing resources to deliver predetermined objectives as specified by more senior managers.

And if you have any of these, even better

• Ideally, you’ll hold a relevant or equivalent ISACA qualification (CISM, CRISC, CISA, CISSP) or be willing to work towards this.

We don’t expect you to tick every box, and if you feel you hit most of the brief, it’s worth exploring to further develop your career here with us.

What’s in it for you?

• Prepare for your retirement with our colleague pension scheme.
• Private Healthcare & Virtual GP Service for you and your family 365 days a year.
• Performance related annual bonus.
• Indulge in a generous holiday allowance with a minimum of 7.2 weeks, with the opportunity to buy more.
• Embrace the benefits of our Colleague Clubcard, enjoy a 10% discount that increase to 15% every payday (worth up to £2K). As an added perk, we’ll give you a second card to share with someone else.
• Green Car Leasing Scheme.
• Critical Illness cover.
• Benefit from our family-oriented initiatives, encompassing enhanced maternity leave pay, a shared parental leave policy, and a generous 8-week paid paternity leave.
• Take part in our Buy as you Earn and Save as you Earn share schemes.

Everyone’s welcome

We want all our colleagues to always feel welcome and be themselves. We’re committed to building a more inclusive workplace and celebrating everything that makes colleagues unique, and value the richness and diversity this brings to our business. A more diverse business helps us deliver on our purpose to serve our customers, communities, and planet a little better every day.

Additional Information

We also know the importance of balancing work with life’s other commitments. Please talk to us at interview about the flexibility you need, as we’re committed to exploring part time and flexible working opportunities, at every level of the organisation.

Interviews commencing

December 2025.

Why Tesco Insurance and Money Services?

Seeing your impact all around you: there's no better feeling.

Lucky for us, we get to feel it all the time. Because whatever our role, we're helping our colleagues and serving our customers, communities and planet a little better every day.

We deal in the personal – from pet insurance for your best friend, and home insurance for peace of mind, to motor insurance for your dream car or travel money for that trip you’ve worked hard for.

Everything we do is about making things better. Not just for others, but for you too. It's why you'll get bags of choice and plenty of development. It's why you'll always be heard and find balance that works for you. It's why you'll feel totally at home in a place where everyone's welcome.

So, if you want a career where you can do good and feel good, you've found it.

Let's make everyday a little better.

Our story

Making Insurance and Money Services more rewarding and offering great value and choice - because we know little wins can make a big difference.

We began life in 1997 and now help more than 2 million customers protect what matters to them.

We want to deliver a helpful service in everything we do and to make life easier for our customers. Our policies are really easy to manage online for our customers, but we know that being able to speak to our customer service staff when you need to is really important. This is why our customer service centers are open seven days a week.

Delivering great customer service means having great people behind the scenes – people who understand our customers and are driven by doing the right thing for them. We offer colleagues a place where they can feel totally at home in a place where everyone's welcome, where they can be part of a great team focused on making a real difference for our customers.

How to apply

We value our people and diverse teams and believe the variety of backgrounds and experiences make us stronger to achieve our goals.

Our colleagues are working hybrid, taking time to meet with colleagues in our offices for moments that matter, such as team catch ups, planning meetings and more. If you’re interested in finding out more about what a career at Tesco Insurance and Money Services looks like, click apply to find out more!