Security Engineering Manager - Workplace Technology
Likely
Sponsorship likelihood
This employer has issued visas recently
Not disclosed
Salary
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£48,500
Going rate
Skilled Worker going rate
This role likely qualifies for a Skilled Worker visa
SOC 2135 (85% match) is an eligible occupation, with a going rate of £48,500, and Tesco is a licensed sponsor. That is our reading of the rules. Whether they issue a Certificate of Sponsorship is still their call.
This could also be SOC 1137 (Information technology directors, Senior security leadership role with strategic direction could be director-level) or SOC 2132 (IT managers, Manages IT/technology team but focus is security engineering). We read the code off the advert, so it is our best guess, not the employer's.
New graduate or PhD holder? Pick one of the lower rates.
What each route needs for this job
| Occupation code | New entrant 70% of going rate | STEM PhD 80% of going rate | Relevant PhD 90% of going rate | Standard rate 100% of going rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
2135 Cyber security professionals Most likely code | £34,000 | £38,800 | £43,700 | £48,500 |
1137 Information technology directors Also possible | £60,200 | £68,800 | £77,400 | £86,000 |
2132 IT managers Also possible | £38,500 | £44,000 | £49,500 | £55,000 |
We use the lowest threshold across the plausible codes. Likelihood is Possible at most when the pay clears only a lower rate, or only under a less likely code. How the Home Office picks the code
About the role
The Security Engineering Manager – Workplace Technology is responsible for leading a team of 5 security engineers who secure and enhance workplace technology platforms. This includes technologies such as Microsoft 365, Data Loss Prevention (DLP), email security, Windows and Mac client hardening, Active Directory, etc. The role ensures that security engineering practices align with organisational priorities while maintaining a strong operational posture across all supported platforms.
The manager provides leadership, guidance, and development opportunities to the team, setting clear objectives aligned with the Tesco’s security strategy. They are accountable for ensuring high quality delivery, balancing day to day operational demands with longer term security improvements. This includes overseeing workload distribution, ensuring the team is focused on the highest priority risks and initiatives, and maintaining a strong engineering culture.
You will be responsible for
- Transformation & Change: Deliver the Platform Security roadmap, ensuring new capabilities (process, tooling, AI, and operating models) are effectively scoped, implemented, and embedded without compromising operational performance.
- Drive Operational Excellence: Ensure Platform Security Engineering operates at high performance, maintaining strong prevention capability, service reliability, and measurable outcomes aligned to business risk.
- Develop High Performing Teams: Lead, mentor, and grow a diverse team of security professionals, fostering a culture of inclusion, continuous learning, and engineering-led ways of working.
- Strengthen Stakeholder Engagement: Act as a senior interface between Platform Security, Technology, and Business stakeholders, clearly communicating risk, influencing outcomes, and aligning priorities.
- Own Service & Product Mindset: Embed a product and service-oriented approach ensuring changes are outcome driven, measurable, and aligned to customer and organisational needs.
Essential
- Leadership & Team Development: Demonstrable experience leading and managing technical teams, including coaching, performance development, and building inclusive, high-performing environments.
- Strong Technical Knowledge: Demonstrable knowledge of common enterprise workplace technologies.
- Strategic Thinking & Problem Solving: Proven ability to define and execute strategic roadmaps, translating complex challenges into clear, actionable plans aligned to business objectives.
- Communication & Influencing: Strong capability to communicate complex cyber risks effectively to both technical and non-technical stakeholders, influencing decisions at senior levels.
- Change Leadership: Experience embracing and enabling change, successfully integrating new tools, processes, and operating models whilst maintaining service continuity.
- Applied AI Awareness: Foundational understanding of how AI and automation can be applied to cyber security particularly in improving efficiency and decision making.
- Technical Interviewing & Talent Building: Experience in hiring and assessing technical talent, building teams that meet both current and future capability needs.
- Collaboration & Inclusion: Demonstrable commitment to fostering inclusive teams and working effectively across diverse technology and security domains.
- Awareness of core technology landscape and retail systems, and how cyber risk translates into customer and business impact.
- Understanding of cyber incident management models and escalation frameworks across enterprise environments.
- Experience with product methodologies and service-oriented delivery models.
- Exposure to data analytics and insights to drive operational decision making and performance improvement.
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- Annual bonus scheme of up to 20% of base salary.
- Holiday starting at 25 days plus a personal day (plus Bank holidays).
- Private medical insurance.
- 26 weeks maternity and adoption leave (12 months service required at the qualifying date) at full pay, followed by 13 weeks of Statutory Maternity Pay or Statutory Adoption Pay, we also offer 6 weeks fully paid paternity leave.
- 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.
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About Us
You might know us as a supermarket, technology company or even for our award-winning mobile network. Truth is, we’re all of those things, and much more. Our colleagues work with one goal in mind, helping to make every day a little better for our customers, colleagues and communities all over the world. No two customers are the same, neither are our colleagues.
At Tesco, we champion a balance that lets you thrive both in and out of work. Spend 60% of your week collaborating with colleagues at our office locations or local sites and the rest remotely. Whether you're just kicking off your career, juggling passions, or navigating big life events, we're here to support you. We always welcome a conversation about flexible working, so talk to us throughout your application about how we can support.
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Where this offer sits in the market
Cyber security professionals (SOC 2135) · UK · ONS ASHE 2025 · basic pay · ~30k in sample- Middle half £43,680–69,316
- Median £51,376
- Going rate £48,500
- Threshold £41,700
- New entrant £34,000–43,700
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About sponsorship for this role
Does this job guarantee visa sponsorship?
Not necessarily. Tesco holds a sponsor licence, but sponsorship for a specific hire is always the employer's decision. Be upfront in your application that you'll require it.
What salary is needed for this role to be eligible?
The offer must clear both the general threshold and the SOC 2135 going rate of £48,500. New-entrant and shortage discounts can lower it.