Infrastructure Architect Systems Engineer III

About the Role

The Infrastructure Architect Systems Engineer III is a key member of our team, responsible for contributing to and maintaining the roadmaps for Infrastructure products. This role requires collaboration with application, engineering teams, stakeholders, customers, and vendors to evaluate new products and techniques, resulting in architecting and designing new and existing Infrastructure products for the wider Tesco Technology teams to consume.

Key Responsibilities

• Contribute to and maintain architecture roadmaps, including technology lifecycle management, for Infrastructure.
• Architect and design new infrastructure solutions to meet business requirements, while introducing automation and ensuring security is by design.
• Collaborate with other teams across all of Tesco Technology to understand their requirements and ensure infrastructure products are aligned.
• Contribute to the development of Infrastructure as a Product.

Requirements

• Investigate and identify trends and emerging Infrastructure technologies and techniques that would deliver a significant improvement to Tesco's business, application, or Infrastructure teams.
• Contribute to and maintain the roadmap and product lifecycle for Infrastructure, advising on new technology products to ensure capacity and scalability as demand and usage evolve within Tesco.
• Contribute to the Architecture forum, ensuring that business projects are delivered using good infrastructure practices.
• Collaborate with development and infrastructure teams in creating appropriate infrastructure solutions, understanding modern application development techniques and their implications.
• Lead group design discussions and present with authority to a variety of audiences.
• Make recommendations on existing solutions and where they could be improved or should be decommissioned, using your understanding of cost, service requirements, technology, and people.
• Ensure Security and Automation is by design.
• Work with the Principal System Engineers and Enterprise Architects to maintain standards and guidance for design and architecture across Technology and effectively communicate.
• Have a broad technical understanding of infrastructure products, how they fit together, and align to the wider technology landscape.
• Work with suppliers to ensure their architectural roadmaps align to supporting Tesco systems.
• Work with infrastructure teams to ensure they produce and maintain high-quality HLD/LLD and standard documentation.
• Take ownership of, keep up-to-date, and embrace the latest industry technologies and associated supplier solutions.

Leadership & Potential

• Collaborate across multifunctional departments to drive forward the overall enterprise design.
• Use strategic thinking to plan for the future, developing ideas that will cope with changing environments and challenges that lie ahead.
• Be a well-organised self-starter who takes personal ownership and accountability at required levels of the work stream and project life cycles, willing to go the extra mile at every opportunity.
• Keep your technical skills up-to-date and track new technologies, understanding how they might benefit the Technology team and wider Tesco.
• Approach issues with a bigger picture perspective, influence, and make decisions.
• Leverage feedback to drive continuous improvement.
• Collaborate across multifunctional departments and communicate effectively with stakeholders at all levels.
• Lead by example in creating a positive and supportive culture in the team.
• Celebrate success.
• Anticipate and overcome obstacles with a pragmatic approach to achieve goals and commitments, exhibiting high responsiveness by reacting quickly and positively to significant and major events.
• Help to understand and develop architecture and development cycle skills and capabilities in the team.
• Help to mentor and educate System Engineers and Software Development Engineers across Technology.
• Demonstrate strong written, verbal communication, and presentation skills to a variety of audiences.
• Be flexible, able to plan and organise, responsive, creative, and a self-starter.
• Be proficient in spoken and written English.

Technology Understanding

• Be a Subject Matter Expert in at least one area of infrastructure, encompassing multiple domains, including private and public cloud, platforms, network security and connectivity, end-user computing, CI/CD, and monitoring toolkit.
• Have experience designing and deploying solutions for large, complex global organisations.
• Have an analytical and structured approach to architecture, design, and process improvements.
• Understand current application development techniques and their implications.
• Facilitate Tesco Technology's Infrastructure transformation to modern platforms that can be consumed through APIs or portals, allowing Infrastructure to be consumed in a controlled, auditable, and repeatable manner, with automatic recovery and full end-to-end service monitoring and operationalisation.
• Understand, contribute, and develop Infrastructure as a Product.

Finance & Commercials

• Be able to support business cases by evaluating suitable products for their technology and commercial impact on Tesco and assist the Product and Architecture team in making the right decision.
• Contribute to commercial discussions in an SME capacity.

What's in it for you

We're all about the little helps. That's why we give our wonderful colleagues bags of benefits, including wellbeing services, an award-winning pension scheme, and much more. Our colleague reward package keeps on giving, and helps make every day a little better for you and your family. These include but are not limited to:

• Annual bonus scheme of up to 20% of base salary.
• Holiday starting at 25 days plus a personal day (plus Bank holidays).
• Buy holiday salary sacrifice scheme (for salaried roles).
• Private medical insurance.
• Retirement savings plan - save between 4% and 7.5% and Tesco will match your contribution.
• LifeAssurance - 5 x contractual pay.
• 26 weeks maternity and adoption leave (after 1 year's service) at full pay, followed by 13 weeks of Statutory Maternity Pay or Statutory Adoption Pay, we also offer 4 weeks fully paid paternity leave.
• The right to request flexible working from your first day with us.
• Free 24/7 virtual GP service, Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) for you and your family, free access to a range of experts to support your mental wellbeing.
• A Colleague Clubcard for you & a family member (after 3 months of service), giving you access to lots of discounts in-store & online.
• Great colleague deals and discounts, saving you money on everyday purchases, eating out, and utility bills for the home.
• Access to our colleague networks providing a space for colleagues to come together from a range of backgrounds.
• Opportunities to get on - take advantage of our ongoing learning opportunities and award-winning training, to help you achieve the job and career you want.

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About us

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.

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