Tesco India Bengaluru, Karnataka, India Full-Time Permanent Apply by 11-Oct-2025
About the role
Domain Architects - Data drive alignment to help Technology collectively deliver a simpler, flexible & sustainable data architecture across multiple business functions. They define, communicate and govern the data architecture and strategy for given business domains, leading data transformation programmes and ensuring robust data models, governance frameworks, and compliant platform solutions that enable and deliver the Tesco Business Strategy. They work closely with senior stakeholders across various functions to understand specific domain data requirements, leading in the development of data architecture blueprints and providing strategic technical leadership to ensure integrity, consistency, regulatory compliance, and scalability of data solutions. They build data architecture capability within the organization while continuously improving the data landscape to drive business value and operational excellence.
What is in it for you
At Tesco, we are committed to providing the best for you.
As a result, our colleagues enjoy a unique, differentiated, market- competitive reward package, based on the current industry practices, for all the work they put into serving our customers, communities and planet a little better every day.
Our Tesco Rewards framework consists of pillars - Fixed Pay, Incentives, and Benefits.
Total Rewards offered at Tesco is determined by four principles -simple, fair, competitive, and sustainable.
Salary - Your fixed pay is the guaranteed pay as per your contract of employment.
Leave & Time-off - Colleagues are entitled to 30 days of leave (18 days of Earned Leave, 12 days of Casual/Sick Leave) and 10 national and festival holidays, as per the company’s policy.
Making Retirement Tension-FreeSalary - In addition to Statutory retirement beneets, Tesco enables colleagues to participate in voluntary programmes like NPS and VPF.
Health is Wealth - Tesco promotes programmes that support a culture of health and wellness including insurance for colleagues and their family. Our medical insurance provides coverage for dependents including parents or in-laws.
Mental Wellbeing - We offer mental health support through self-help tools, community groups, ally networks, face-to-face counselling, and more for both colleagues and dependents.
Financial Wellbeing - Through our financial literacy partner, we offer one-to-one financial coaching at discounted rates, as well as salary advances on earned wages upon request.
Save As You Earn (SAYE) - Our SAYE programme allows colleagues to transition from being employees to Tesco shareholders through a structured 3-year savings plan.
Physical Wellbeing - Our green campus promotes physical wellbeing with facilities that include a cricket pitch, football field, badminton and volleyball courts, along with indoor games, encouraging a healthier lifestyle.
You will be responsible for
Fostering understanding of the current data landscape and its impact on stakeholders:
- Ensure we have data models and materials that describe the data architecture landscape for given business domains at a high-level and how it supports business operations
- Help colleagues of all levels to understand data flows, dependencies, and their role within the broader data ecosystem to aid decision making
- Create and maintain data architecture artifacts, data lineage documentation, and governance frameworks
Evolving and embedding our overall Data Strategy and ensuring it informs everything we do:
- Contribute to the definition of target data architectures that will improve our business for customers and colleagues in line with our business and Technology strategy and plans
- Design conceptual and logical data models ensuring accuracy, consistency, and scalability across business domains
- Identify optimal approaches to data acquisition, storage, transformation, and governance while increasing agility and driving simplicity / cost efficiency over the short, medium and long-term
- Contribute to business planning activities utilising broad understanding of regulatory requirements (including SOX, GDPR) and industry data trends
Guiding high-level data solution design and delivery to achieve our strategic goals whilst ensuring continuous business value:
- Work in collaboration with Product and Engineering teams to ensure flexible, compliant and secure data solutions
- Apply data governance principles, policies, standards and regulatory requirements to guide solution decision making for data-significant initiatives
- Select and implement appropriate data management tools and technologies, including data warehouses, data lakes, and governance platforms
- Support successful delivery by providing targeted guidance through the technology lifecycle, delivering business value and realising strategic data goals
Evolving our data architecture and design framework as part of the Technology delivery model:
- Build data architecture capability and competency within business domains in keeping with our emphasis on agile, DevOps and modern data practices
- Engage and educate Technology colleagues in enterprise and data architecture topics including domain data modelling and modern data stack patterns
- Proactively collaborate and communicate with Technology colleagues and delivery partners to drive data architecture awareness and adoption
- Evaluate and recommend new data technologies, tools and patterns to enhance business processes and data capabilities
You will need
Experience relevant for this job:
- Successful use of Data Architecture to shape strategic data priorities and business outcomes
- Deep knowledge and proven record of leading business domains through data transformation programmes
- Continuous improvement in data landscape to rationalize, modernize and optimize data platforms and solutions
- Design and management of domain data architecture to meet strategic needs, providing data blueprints for engineers to build and products to follow
- Creation, communication and embedding of Data strategy and governance frameworks
- Leading data architecture governance, compliance assurance, and regulatory adherence
- Hands-on (current or previous) data engineering and data platform experience
- Experience operating within Finance, Assets and/or Colleague Technology domains
- Business Operating Model knowledge/experience with understanding of data's role in business processes
- Proven ability to influence without authority across multiple business functions
Key Architecture Skills:
- Technology understanding across Data, Software, Infrastructure and Security
- Solution Shaping & Problem-Solving
- Technology Strategy & Portfolio Steering
- Architecture modelling
- Technical Writing (Standards, Whitepapers & Cookbooks)
About us
Tesco in Bengaluru is a multi-disciplinary team serving our customers, communities, and planet a little better every day across markets. Our goal is to create a sustainable competitive advantage for Tesco by standardising processes, delivering cost savings, enabling agility through technological solutions, and empowering our colleagues to do even more for our customers. With cross-functional expertise, a wide network of teams, and strong governance, we reduce complexity, thereby offering high-quality services for our customers.
Tesco in Bengaluru, established in 2004 to enable standardisation and build centralised capabilities and competencies, makes the experience better for our millions of customers worldwide and simpler for over 3,30,000 colleagues
Tesco Technology
Today, our Technology team consists of over 5,000 experts spread across the UK, Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic, and India. In India, our Technology division includes teams dedicated to Engineering, Product, Programme, Service Desk and Operations, Systems Engineering, Security & Capability, Data Science, and other roles.
At Tesco, our retail platform comprises a wide array of capabilities, value propositions, and products, essential for crafting exceptional retail experiences for our customers and colleagues across all channels and markets. This platform encompasses all aspects of our operations – from identifying and authenticating customers, managing products, pricing, promoting, enabling customers to discover products, facilitating payment, and ensuring delivery. By developing a comprehensive Retail Platform, we ensure that as customer touchpoints and devices evolve, we can consistently deliver seamless experiences. This adaptability allows us to respond flexibly without the need to overhaul our technology, thanks to the creation of capabilities we have built.