Tesco Czech Republic Hybrid Full-Time Permanent Apply by 27-May-2026
About the role
As a Technical Programme Manager, you will deliver complex, cross-functional technology programmes that support colleagues and help serve our customers better. They work collaboratively, influence Product, Engineering and business colleagues and lead the programme to deliver value quickly and often.
What is in it for you
Tesco is a diverse and exciting employer, dedicated to being #aplacetogeton, providing career-defining opportunities to all of our colleagues. If you choose to join our business, we will provide you with (for all):
- Up to 20% yearly salary bonus - based on both individual and business performance
- Sick leave compensation
- 1 extra week of annual leave above your legal entitlement of 4 weeks of annual leave of paid leave to support your well-being and family life
- Pension insurance contribution
- Cafeteria benefit system & Multisport card
- Training and Development Plan, supported by certified training and learning platforms like Udemy, Pluralsight and O’Reilly
- Referral Bonus
- Flexible work time
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You will be responsible for
- Deliver complex programmes with multiple business and technical risks that will impact the success of key Tesco business priorities
- Create and track a plan to deliver the programme goals, including the technical implementation plan, ensuring colleagues and stakeholders from across Tesco are kept up-to-date
- Understand trade-offs in software delivery using experience and influencing skills to drive consensus with the Engineering and Product teams to obtain the best value and solutions
- Am able to foresee potential risks and issues, establish a process, facilitate discussion and manage escalations
- Am able to understand a technical architecture to be able to foresee the impact on dependencies, delivery timelines and implementation plans
- Have good knowledge of engineering best practices and practical infrastructure implementations to appreciate delivery challenges
- Collaborate with the Product and Engineering teams to define annual budgetary requirements
- Build positive relationships with stakeholders to deliver software or professional services, holding them to account on delivery and improvement plans
You will need
Required skills
- Programme Governance
- Planning and execution with tools like Jira, MS Project, etc..
- Risk management
- Finance and Procurement management including estimation and tracking
- Programme and Product Methodologies
- Understanding of software development life-cycle, CI/CD
- Communicating and Influencing
- Data reporting and analysis tools knowledge
- Retail Technology Awareness
- Business Awareness
- Knowledge of IT solution architecture
- Knowledge of IT infrastructure and infrastructure management and monitoring
- Testing management knowledge
- Development and testing automation
- Overview of software development languages and approaches
- Software architecture knowledge
Experience relevant for this job
- Have a proven record of accomplishment in delivering technology programmes
- Have experience of building credible relationships and influencing senior management
- Strong project, stakeholder & programme management skills
- Good reporting skills for programs and financial forecasting
- Adept communication & influencing skills and adoptability to changes
- Proven IT technical skills such as development team leadership, solution architect, IT manager etc.
About us
Tesco is a leading multinational retailer, with more than 336 000 colleagues.
Our software is used by millions of people across several countries every day. Whether it’s the tills and websites our customers use, or the systems our colleagues and partners use, you’ll play your part in keeping it running like a well-oiled machine. And when a business problem pops up? You and the creative minds in our team will be challenged to solve it.
Our goal is to bring significant changes to the market by using the latest technologies. We are focusing on a large variety of modern technologies from the backend space and frontend to UX, UI and even data science and engineering.
Our colleagues are the key to our success at Tesco. We foster an environment of openness and collaboration. We draw from the diversity, knowledge and experience of our colleagues. It is all about equal opportunities, no matter who you are, or where you come from, you can get on at Tesco.
As Technology program we cooperate within the group of Tesco Technology offices located in the UK, Poland, Czech, Hungary and India.
What our colleagues like the most at Tesco:
- We develop our own products
- We make an impact; large scale of operation
- Accountability and respect are given to us
- We cooperate and support each other
- There are great colleagues who are divided into small teams here
- We can develop and learn new things