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About the role

Serving our customers, communities, and planet a little better every day.

Salary - up to £95,500 + annual bonus & benefits

Work Level – 2

Location – Edinburgh, Glasgow or Newcastle, Permanent

Office Attendance – Our hybrid working model gives you the best of both worlds - flexibility to work from home and valuable face-to-face time with colleagues. This role typically requires 1 day per week onsite.

Closing Date - Applications close on 11.09.2026 at 5pm

Why this role?

We're building a new Data & AI capability at Tesco IMS, and this role will be at the heart of that journey. As Data Engineering Manager (known internally as a Principal Engineer), you'll lead the team responsible for creating the trusted data foundations that underpin reporting, analytics and AI across the business. You'll help solve some of our biggest data challenges by introducing modern engineering practices, improving platform reliability, and ensuring data can be accessed and used with confidence. From shaping our Microsoft Fabric estate and data integration strategy to establishing engineering standards and DataOps practices, you'll have the opportunity to influence how data is delivered at scale. If you're passionate about building high-performing teams, modern data platforms and creating foundations that unlock business value, this is a chance to make a lasting impact.

What you’ll be doing

• Deliver trusted, scalable and secure data platforms that enable reporting, analytics, AI and business decision-making across Tesco IMS.
• Establish and embed modern Data Engineering and DataOps practices, improving the quality, reliability and operational readiness of data products and services.
• Build, develop and lead a high-performing Data Engineering capability, creating a culture of engineering excellence, continuous improvement and knowledge sharing.
• Enable faster and more consistent delivery of data products by defining reusable patterns, standards and governance controls for data integration, transformation and storage.
• Drive the evolution of the enterprise data platform, ensuring it remains resilient, cost-effective and capable of supporting future reporting, analytics and AI requirements.
• Partner with Product Managers, MI/BI & Analytics, AI & Data Science teams and business stakeholders to translate business needs into reliable data solutions that deliver measurable outcomes.

What we’re looking for (minimum criteria)

• Proven experience leading and developing high-performing Data Engineering teams, with accountability for capability growth, delivery quality and operational excellence.
• Strong expertise in designing, building and operating Microsoft Fabric solutions, including data ingestion, transformation, data warehousing, orchestration and lakehouse architectures.
• Deep understanding of DataOps, platform governance, security and data engineering best practices, with experience establishing scalable and reliable delivery frameworks.
• Ability to engage and influence business and technology stakeholders, translating strategic priorities into trusted data products and platform capabilities that deliver measurable value.

And if you have any of these, even better

• Experience leading the adoption and scaling of Microsoft Fabric within an enterprise environment.
• Experience with Fabric Real-Time Intelligence and AI-enabled capabilities such as Fabric IQ.
• Experience supporting reporting, analytics, AI and machine learning workloads on a modern data platform.
• Microsoft Fabric capacity management and security setup.

We welcome applications from everyone. If you’re excited about this role but your experience doesn’t align perfectly with every requirement, we’d still love to hear from you.

What’s in it for you

• A generous pension, with up to 7.5% employer contribution, depending on what you put in.
• Private Medical Insurance (WL2+) and virtual GP Service for you and your family.
• Performance related annual bonus.
• 7.2 weeks holiday, with the opportunity to buy more.
• Colleague Clubcard discount (10-15% + second card to share with someone else).
• Enhanced parental leave.
• Opportunities to Save and Buy as you earn.
• A place to get on - take advantage of our ongoing learning opportunities to help you achieve the job and career you want.

Interviews

As a Disability Confident Employer (Level 2), we’re committed to creating an accessible and supportive environment for all. We offer reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process, including interviews, to ensure every candidate has a fair opportunity to succeed.

We also know the importance of balancing work with life’s other commitments. Please talk to us at interview about the flexibility you need, as we’re committed to exploring part time and flexible working opportunities, at every level of the organisation.

Interviews are expected to be held from w/c 14/09/2026.

Why Tesco Insurance and Money Services?

Seeing your impact all around you: there's no better feeling.

Lucky for us, we get to feel it all the time. Because whatever our role, we're helping our colleagues and serving our customers, communities and planet a little better every day.

We deal in the personal – from pet insurance for your best friend, and home insurance for peace of mind, to motor insurance for your dream car or travel money for that trip you’ve worked hard for.

Everything we do is about making things better. Not just for others, but for you too. It's why you'll get bags of choice and plenty of development. It's why you'll always be heard and find balance that works for you. It's why you'll feel totally at home in a place where everyone's welcome.

So, if you want a career where you can do good and feel good, you've found it.

Let's make everyday a little better.

Our story

Making Insurance and Money Services more rewarding and offering great value and choice - because we know little wins can make a big difference.

We began life in 1997 and now help more than 2 million customers protect what matters to them.

We want to deliver a helpful service in everything we do and to make life easier for our customers. Our policies are really easy to manage online for our customers, but we know that being able to speak to our customer service staff when you need to is really important. This is why our customer service centers are open seven days a week.

Delivering great customer service means having great people behind the scenes – people who understand our customers and are driven by doing the right thing for them. We offer colleagues a place where they can feel totally at home in a place where everyone's welcome, where they can be part of a great team focused on making a real difference for our customers.

How to apply

We value our people and diverse teams and believe the variety of backgrounds and experiences make us stronger to achieve our goals.

Our colleagues are working hybrid, taking time to meet with colleagues in our offices for moments that matter, such as team catch ups, planning meetings and more. If you’re interested in finding out more about what a career at Tesco Insurance and Money Services looks like, click apply to find out more!