Senior Cyber Security Partner

The position will be based at our Tesco Technology offices in London.

We are the trusted security advisors for Tesco Technology. Our purpose is to collaborate seamlessly with the product and engineering teams, leveraging our deep expertise in cyber security to design and implement robust, resilient solutions that protect our business and customers from cyber threats. We are a dynamic and expanding global team of 15+ experts, serving as the strategic link between the wider security group and software engineering teams that develop cutting-edge services at scale to support the retail business.

Tesco Technology comprises of several technology domains with over 100+ teams, each entrusted with their own security. These teams enjoy significant autonomy, balanced by the responsibility to make customer‑centric decisions and security. Rather than imposing controls through rigid processes and security gates, we empower these engineering teams to innovate by providing security guidance that helps them make informed decisions for Tesco.

Encouragingly, these teams are enthusiastic partners in enhancing security, working more efficiently, and integrating security into every aspect of their ways of working. This collaborative approach sets us apart from traditional security teams. We proudly identify ourselves as Security Partners, not security police, emphasizing our role as the “trusted advisors” rather than enforcers.

Partners engage key people in engineering to make security contextual and frictionless. After all, security is a journey and there is no one‑size‑fits‑all.

Join the team and be part of this exciting journey!

As a Senior Security Partner, you will transform the security maturity of key product areas and teams. You will be the face of security group for them. Everything you do is in the context of the product, roadmap, its risk acceptance level, the technology stack, and its architecture.

You build a comprehensive understanding of the threat landscape and its potential risks to the business. Through effective partnership, you engage the leadership to make well‑informed decisions about security and privacy.

As enterprise applications become more distributed, adaptive to technological advancements, and run from hybrid infrastructure, teams need to navigate through different complexities and make key security decisions along the way. A trusted security advisor empowers teams to achieve scalable and sustainable security maturity throughout the SDLC (software development lifecycle) process.

• Provide product and engineering teams with direction and guidance on all security matters. There is a whole security group to back you up, so it is not as scary as it sounds.
• Engage engineering leadership on security roadmap and oversee security posture of what they build.
• Co‑own the security roadmap, discuss, prioritise, and co‑develop plans for remediation for the product areas.
• Empower security champions to succeed and create a strong feedback loop for improvements.
• Represent security in all product and architecture meet‑ups. Be part of critical decisions about security.
• Oversee product security activities, from the early development of security requirements, architecture reviews, and threat modelling, to strengthening application security, mitigating supply‑chain risks, securing secrets, pipelines, reviewing vulnerabilities, and infrastructure security.
• Perform security architecture reviews of third‑party services.
• Identify acceptable risk levels and assist with action plan, policy, and procedural changes for risk mitigation.
• Adopt a risk‑based approach and guide management in identifying business risks and potential impact to Tesco. Continuously seek both tactical and strategic solutions to enhance security.
• As the security expert for the product area, engage across the security group to strengthen controls across identification, protection, detection, response, and recovery.
• Oversee assurance activities like security testing, purple testing, assurance, auditing.
• Reduce security fatigue for engineering and provide faster feedback within existing developer…