Systems Engineer III – Collaboration Engineering
Tesco
TescoLondon, EC1R 5ARView on map(opens Google Maps in a new tab)
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Contract
Permanent
Hours
36 hrs/week · Full-time · Part-time
Closing date
30 October 2026
6 days leftJob description
We’re looking for a senior systems engineer to lead the design, delivery, and evolution of collaboration and productivity platforms across Tesco. The role owns technology strategy and roadmap execution across Microsoft 365, collaboration services, and emerging Generative AI capabilities, developing solutions from
concept through to operational handover.
- Own the architectural strategy and roadmap for collaboration and productivity platforms, ensuring alignment to cost, security, governance, and colleague experience.
- Design and deliver new technologies and platform enhancements from conception through tooperational support.
- Act as the senior engineering authority for collaboration technologies, representing Workplace Engineering across Tesco Technology and with vendors.
- Influence product and vendor roadmaps, contributing to commercial decisions and business cases.
- Ensure services are secure, resilient, scalable, and operable, with automation and service improvement built in by design.
- Coach and mentor engineers, driving consistent engineering standards and outcomes across the team.
- Significant experience delivering complex collaboration or workplace platforms in a large-scale enterprise environment.
- Deep hands-on and architectural experience across Microsoft 365 services including Exchange, SharePoint, Teams, OneDrive, Power Platform, and Copilot technologies - (Copilot Agent, Open AI or AI Agent) .
- Strong understanding of identity, security, compliance, data protection, and backup/recovery within Microsoft cloud ecosystems.
- Proven ability to manage technology lifecycles, vendor relationships, and commercial trade-offs.
- Strong communicator, able to influence senior stakeholders and partner effectively with architects, product managers, and suppliers.
- Advanced PowerShell and automation skills.
- Experience with large-scale data migration and hybrid environments.
- Exposure to Azure infrastructure and virtualisation platforms.
Our vision at Tesco is to become every customer's favourite way to shop, whether they are at home or out on the move. Our core purpose is ‘Serving our customers, communities and planet a little better every day’. Serving means more than a transactional relationship with our customers. It means acting as a responsible and sustainable business for all stakeholders, for the communities we are part of and for the planet.
We are proud to have an inclusive culture at Tesco where everyone truly feels able to be themselves. At Tesco, we not only celebrate diversity, but recognise the value and opportunity it brings. We're committed to creating a workplace where differences are valued, and make sure that all colleagues are given the same opportunities.
We’re proud to have been accredited Disability Confident Leader and we’re committed to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process. For further information on the accessibility support we can offer, please click here.
We’re a big business and we can offer a range of diverse full-time & part-time working patterns across our many business areas, which means that we can find something that works for you. We work in a more blended pattern - combining office and remote working. Our offices will continue to be where we connect, collaborate and innovate.
If you are applying internally, please speak to the Hiring Manager about how this can work for you - Everyone is welcome at Tesco.
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Tesco
First seen
15 October 2026
Last checked
24 October 2026
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