Tesco India Bengaluru, Karnataka, India Hybrid Full-Time Permanent Working hours 45 Apply by 17-Apr-2026
About the role
This role sits within the workplace Identity team which is part of the Tesco Workplace Technology engineering team, part of a global engineering function delivering secure, scalable, and modern workplace solutions for Tesco colleagues. As a senior engineer and domain expert in Identity technologies, you will lead the full technology lifecycle — from strategy and design through to engineering, testing, and delivery — for the services that underpin our digital colleague experience.
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
Strategic Leadership
- Act as a senior engineer for Identity within the Workplace Technology team, setting the direction, roadmap, and architectural standards for core identity services including Active Directory, Entra ID, PKI, and modern authentication protocols.
- Align identity strategy to Tesco’s broader digital workplace vision, collaborating closely with architects, product managers, security, and infrastructure teams.
- Stay ahead of market trends and emerging technologies in identity and access management, advocating for their adoption where beneficial.
Engineering & Delivery
- Design and deliver secure, scalable identity platforms that support global business needs and enable modern digital workplace capabilities.
- Engineer solutions across the identity lifecycle: concept, evaluation, prototyping, testing, production deployment, and service transition.
- Implement automation, codification (IaC), and integration with CI/CD practices to drive efficiency and resilience.
- Act as a senior escalation point for complex issues related to authentication, replication, certificate lifecycle, hybrid identity, and directory services.
Operational Excellence
- Build systems that are secure, stable, and easy to operate, with monitoring, alerting, and lifecycle planning embedded by design.
- Champion remediation of legacy identity components and uplift the security and operational posture of all identity services.
- Ensure knowledge is well documented and transitions smoothly into operational support with clear SLAs and handover practices.
Governance & Security
- Drive adoption of Zero Trust principles, secure admin tiering, modern auth standards, conditional access, and multifactor authentication.
- Own the health, design, and policy of PKI infrastructure and associated services (including certificate templates, CRLs, and HSMs).
- Work closely with the Security and Risk teams to ensure compliance with internal controls, regulatory obligations, and audit findings.
Leadership & Influence
- Represent Workplace Technology Identity Engineering across Tesco Technology and into broader cross-functional initiatives.
- Lead by example in engineering excellence, stakeholder engagement, and mentoring of less experienced engineers.
- Promote a culture of simplification, technical rigour, and continuous improvement.
You will need
Required Skills & Experience
- Deep expertise in:
- Active Directory: design, hardening, replication, domain controller lifecycle, GPOs, admin tiering.
- Azure AD / Entra ID: hybrid identity, conditional access, MFA, identity protection, SSO, SCIM.
- Public Key Infrastructure (PKI): policy, lifecycle, templates, automation, CRL/OCSP, HSMs.
- Authentication protocols: OAuth2, OpenID Connect, SAML, Kerberos, NTLM, WS-Fed.
- Demonstrated ability to design and deliver identity platforms in large, complex environments.
- Understanding of identity’s role in enterprise security frameworks and compliance requirements.
- Proficiency with scripting and automation tools (PowerShell, Terraform, etc.).
- Familiar with monitoring, backup, recovery, and DR practices for identity systems.
- Ensure identity services are designed with built-in resilience, supporting high availability, fault tolerance, and fast recovery across hybrid environments.
- Contribute to and maintain Business Continuity Plans (BCPs), ensuring critical identity components are documented with clear recovery priorities.
- Design and validate Disaster Recovery (DR) strategies for directory services, authentication systems, and PKI, with regular failover testing and documented RTO/RPO.
- Define and verify backup and recovery plans for identity infrastructure, including domain controllers, certificate authorities, and configuration artifacts.
- Estimate engineering effort and support the costing of identity-related projects, including resource planning, licensing, infrastructure, and delivery timelines.
- Partner with Workplace Technology leadership to shape and manage budgets, forecasts, and business cases for new identity initiatives.
Nice to Have
- Experience integrating identity across Linux, SaaS, and multi-cloud platforms.
- Understanding of M365, Microsoft ecosystem, and their dependency on robust identity infrastructure.
- Exposure to identity governance, entitlement management, and lifecycle workflows.
Complementary Skills
- Strong collaboration and influencing skills across engineering, operations, product, and security domains.
- Commercial and vendor awareness to support technology selection, licensing decisions, and cost optimisation.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to engage both engineers and senior stakeholders.
- A proactive, accountable, and resilient mindset — aligned to Tesco’s values and the mission of the Workplace Technology team.
About us
At Tesco, inclusion is at the heart of everything we do. We believe in treating everyone fairly and with respect, valuing individuality and uniqueness to create a true sense of belonging. Diversity and inclusion are deeply embedded in our values—we treat people how they want to be treated. Our goal is for all colleagues to feel they can be themselves at work, and we are committed to helping them thrive. Across the Tesco group, we are building an inclusive workplace that actively celebrates the cultures, personalities, and preferences of our colleagues, who in turn contribute to the success of our business and reflect the diversity of the communities we serve.
At Tesco Bengaluru, we are proud to be a Disability Confident Committed Employer, highlighting our commitment to creating a supportive environment for individuals with disabilities. We are dedicated to offering equal opportunities for all candidates and encourage applicants with disabilities to apply. Our recruitment process is fully accessible, and we are happy to provide reasonable adjustments during interviews. If you need any accommodations to participate in the recruitment process, please let us know. We are here to ensure that everyone has the chance to succeed.
We also believe in fostering a work environment where you can excel both professionally and personally. Our hybrid model allows you to work flexibly—spend 60% of your week collaborating in person with colleagues at our office locations or local sites, and the rest of the time working remotely. We understand that everyone’s life journey is unique, whether you are starting your career, pursuing passions, or navigating life changes, and we are here to support you. Flexibility is a core part of our culture, and we encourage open conversations about how we can best accommodate your needs, so talk to us throughout your application process on the support required.