Due to expansion, the Identity Team in the Customer APIs are looking to bring in an experienced Product Manager with an appreciation for enterprise APIs/backend who canwork with our engineering teams to lead on strategy and develop the roadmap with a particular focus on our more technical outcomes.

The Customer Identity domain is all about how we authenticate and open up ’the front door’ into the full range of Tesco services/ enable value adding capabilities across a wide range of ProductAreas and our ‘Retail Platform’ at Tesco. That could include managing anything from a new microservice that securely stores customer credentials to a public cloud migration project.

You will be able to freely translate from technical to non-technical terms and help close the communications gap between engineering and the rest of the company and be aware of trends / innovations that could help the Identity API which is responsible for billions of authentications each week.

We are looking for someone who understands Tesco’s technical landscape, its API infrastructure and deliver value to the organisation.

Responsibilities

• Getting involved and working with a team of developers to deliver valued
• Leading the development plans: shaping the overall strategy, defining and prioritising business requirements and working with the different business units to ensure their plans are integrated
• Work with other Product Managers, architects and the development team to deliver the roadmap using agile methodologies: prioritising requirements, answering development questions and resolving issues, always putting the customer first.

Qualifications

• Good domain expertise in the relevant functional area/ a large complex domain
• Strong technical skills working predominately with APIs, Cloud Services, Identity frameworks
• Technically competent to influence and understand the solution context and approach and aid engineering in estimating the complexity of work being requested
• Understands the impact Tech debt is causing and the value Tech upgrades can bring in, and can hold the objective conversations with your technology counterparts to prioritize it during any sprint
• A methodical/ analytical approach and great problem-solving skills
• Attitude and the aptitude to learn new product area/domain quickly
• Expertise of Agile methodologies, writing effective user stories/ acceptance criterions

Tesco is a leading multinational retailer, with more than 330 000 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.

As Tech Hub we cooperate within the group of Tesco Technology Hubs located in the UK, Poland, Hungary, Czech Republic 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