About the role
This is a unique prospect to play a
leading role in how software products are built within a leading global
retailer with real impact across millions of customers and thousands of
software engineers.
Reporting to the Director of Engineering
Effectiveness and Capability, you will lead teams that focus on overall
developer experience, developer tooling and will lead our efforts to evolve how
software engineering is done in the world of agentic AI. You’ll play a key role
in shaping strategy as well as driving execution. You’ll provide thought
leadership through keeping your knowledge and expertise in agentic coding up to
date through continual evaluation of recent technologies and practices and be able
to balance pace of delivery with the need to be secure, resilient and prudent.
The impact of your work will be felt by over 2,500 software engineers.
You’ll manage and provide leadership to
teams based in India and Hungary.

You will be responsible for
• Budget ownership, partnership and commercial relationships with




existing suppliers in the developer tooling and agentic coding space. Continual
evaluation of new tools and build vs buy decisions.
• The ongoing evolution and operational excellence of our key
developer tools such as GitHub, SonarQube Nexus and others that support software
development activities.
• Key input into the definition and continual evolution of the
strategy for how our SDLC evolves in the light of Agentic AI.
• Accountability and leadership to execute how agentic AI is enabled
for development teams.
• Thought leadership across the whole Technology organisation around
Agentic AI for coding and other aspects of the SDLC.
• Overall ownership of developer experience including gathering
quantitative and qualitative data, driving insight and identifying areas of
prospect.

You will need
• Proven experience of leading geographically disparate teams and
managing managers.
• Ability to shape strategic direction; deal with ambiguity and
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📌 Head Of Software Development Bengaluru
🏢 Tesco Technology
📍 Bengaluru