General information

Job Title
Technical Product Owner
Ref #
9449
Location
Newcastle - Q8 Building, Quorum Business Park, Longbenton, NE12 8BU, United Kingdom
Department
IMS - Engineering
Business Area
Engineering
Working time
Full-Time
Date Published
15-01-2026

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

Salary from £50,240 - £62,800 + plus annual bonus and benefits.
Work Level - 2 (Permanent role)
Location - Newcastle, blended working.
Office Attendance - Our roles are hybrid, however you need to travel to our Newcastle office 2 days per week for this role. Occasional travel to other Tesco offices may also be required.
Closing Date - Applications close Monday 16th February 2026.

Are you passionate about shaping the future of Technology in a dynamic, customer-focused environment? We have the job for you!

Opportunity

Tesco Insurance and Money Services is growing their product team, and we’re looking for a Technical Product Owner to lead the charge in transforming our systems - ensuring efficiency, compliance, and being future-ready.

As the Technical Product Owner, you’ll be at the heart of our Technology transformation. You’ll be key to developing our end-to-end journey, working closely with Engineering Operations teams, third-party suppliers, and internal stakeholders to deliver innovative, compliant, and commercially impactful solutions.

You’ll combine deep technical understanding of systems with strong analysis and service mapping skills to identify opportunities, shape strategy, and drive delivery.

The role

• Ensure our insurance technologies and infrastructure remain compliant, cost efficient, and customer centric.
• Maintain alignment with legal, regulatory, and industry standards for Insurance products.
• Support the long-term Technology strategy for Tesco Insurance – including technology capabilities, and strategic roadmap.
• Manage Technology-related risks and ensure effective controls are in place.
• Support incident resolution and improvements that reduce and mitigate future reoccurrence.
• Contribute to internal product governance processes including periodic reviews and approvals.
• Creating a roadmap for tooling and automation improvements and ongoing maintenance.

What we’re looking for

Essential

• Proven experience as a Product Owner in a technology driven environment.
• Demonstrated ability to define product vision, strategy, and roadmaps aligned to business outcomes.
• Experience of Data driven decision making using data insights, KPIs, and analytics to measure product performance and influence priorities.
• Good understanding of DevOps toolsets, Cloud Services (AWS and Azure) infrastructure and application support.
• Experience working closely with Engineering teams to deliver scalable, secure and robust solutions.
• Knowledge of architecture and engineering best practices.
• Good knowledge of continuous integration and continuous delivery practices.
• Experience engaging with stakeholders to understand needs, translate requirements into technical deliverables, and manage expectations.

What’s in it for you?

• Prepare for your retirement with our colleague pension scheme.
• Private Healthcare, Virtual GP Service for you and your family 365 days a year.
• Critical illness cover.
• Competitive performance related annual bonus.
• Indulge in a generous holiday allowance with a minimum of 7.2 weeks, with the opportunity to buy more.
• Embrace the benefits of our Colleague Clubcard, enjoy a 10% discount that increase to 15% every payday (worth up to £2K). As an added perk, we’ll give you a second card to share with someone else.
• Benefit from our family-oriented initiatives, encompassing enhanced maternity leave pay, a shared parental leave policy, and a generous 8-week paid paternity leave.
• Green car leasing taxable benefit.
• A place to get on - take advantage of our ongoing learning opportunities and award-winning training, to help you achieve the job and career you want.
• Take part in our Buy as you Earn and Save as your Earn share schemes.

Everyone’s welcome

We want all our colleagues to always feel welcome and be themselves. We’re committed to building a more inclusive workplace and celebrating everything that makes colleagues unique, and value the richness and diversity this brings to our business. A more diverse business helps us deliver on our purpose to serve our customers, communities, and planet a little better every day.

Additional Information

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 commencing Feb 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 centres 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!
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