Security Engineering Manager – Workplace Technology

About the role

The Security Engineering Manager – Workplace Technology is responsible for leading a team of 5 security engineers who secure and enhance workplace technology platforms. This includes technologies such as Microsoft 365, Data Loss Prevention (DLP), email security, Windows and Mac client hardening, Active Directory, etc. The role ensures that security engineering practices align with organisational priorities while maintaining a strong operational posture across all supported platforms.

The manager provides leadership, guidance, and development opportunities to the team, setting clear objectives aligned with Tesco’s security strategy. They are accountable for ensuring high quality delivery, balancing day‑to‑day operational demands with longer‑term security improvements. This includes overseeing workload distribution, ensuring the team is focused on the highest priority risks and initiatives, and maintaining a strong engineering culture.

You will be responsible for

• Transformation & Change: Deliver the Platform Security roadmap, ensuring new capabilities (process, tooling, AI, and operating models) are effectively scoped, implemented, and embedded without compromising operational performance.
• Drive Operational Excellence: Ensure Platform Security Engineering operates at high performance, maintaining strong prevention capability, service reliability, and measurable outcomes aligned to business risk.
• Develop High Performing Teams: Lead, mentor, and grow a diverse team of security professionals, fostering a culture of inclusion, continuous learning, and engineering‑led ways of working.
• Strengthen Stakeholder Engagement: Act as a senior interface between Platform Security, Technology, and Business stakeholders, clearly communicating risk, influencing outcomes, and aligning priorities.
• Own Service & Product Mindset: Embed a product and service‑oriented approach ensuring changes are outcome driven, measurable, and aligned to customer and organisational needs.

You will need

Essential

• Leadership & Team Development: Demonstrable experience leading and managing technical teams, including coaching, performance development, and building inclusive, high‑performing environments.
• Strong Technical Knowledge: Demonstrable knowledge of common enterprise workplace technologies.
• Strategic Thinking & Problem Solving: Proven ability to define and execute strategic roadmaps, translating complex challenges into clear, actionable plans aligned to business objectives.
• Communication & Influencing: Strong capability to communicate complex cyber risks effectively to both technical and non‑technical stakeholders, influencing decisions at senior levels.
• Change Leadership: Experience embracing and enabling change, successfully integrating new tools, processes, and operating models whilst maintaining service continuity.
• Applied AI Awareness: Foundational understanding of how AI and automation can be applied to cyber security particularly in improving efficiency and decision making.
• Technical Interviewing & Talent Building: Experience in hiring and assessing technical talent, building teams that meet both current and future capability needs.
• Collaboration & Inclusion: Demonstrable commitment to fostering inclusive teams and working effectively across diverse technology and security domains.

Desirable

• Awareness of core technology landscape and retail systems, and how cyber risk translates into customer and business impact.
• Understanding of cyber incident management models and escalation frameworks across enterprise environments.
• Experience with product methodologies and service‑oriented delivery models.
• Exposure to data analytics and insights to drive operational decision making and performance improvement.
• Experience managing budgets, vendors, or procurement processes within a technical environment.
• Demonstrated curiosity, learning mindset, and contribution to professional communities.
• Awareness of responsible AI governance principles and how they apply to operational environments.
• Familiarity with engineering and development lifecycle concepts to better align security with technology delivery.
• GIAC certification and/or relevant certifications such as CISSP or CISM.

Benefits

• 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, and 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.

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