Principal Architect

TJX Companies; Watford; On-site; USD 138,000 - 179,000; Full time

Job summary

Join TJX Companies as a Principal Solution Architect where you'll drive technology strategy and architectural direction for business solutions. You'll be instrumental in shaping enhancements that promote corporate responsibility and sustainability while enabling efficient business operations across our global retail organization.

Benefits

Associate discount

401(k) match

Medical/dental/vision

Tuition reimbursement

Adoption/surrogacy assistance

Qualifications

• Solution Architecture experience with expertise in integration.
• Strong solution architecture & technical design experience.
• Familiarity with cloud computing and Agile delivery.

Responsibilities

• Defining technology strategy and architecting solutions.
• Collaborating with business and IT partners.
• Maintaining operational stability and reducing ecosystem complexity.

Skills

Solution Architecture

Integration expertise

Strategic thinking

Agile methodology

Communication

Tools

Azure PaaS/IaaS

EA tool (LeanIX)

Job description

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At TJX Companies, every day brings new opportunities for growth, exploration, and achievement. You’ll be part of our vibrant team that embraces diversity, fosters collaboration, and prioritizes your development. Whether you’re working in our four global Home Offices, Distribution Centers or Retail Stores—TJ Maxx, Marshalls, Homegoods, Homesense, Sierra, Winners, and TK Maxx, you’ll find abundant opportunities to learn, thrive, and make an impact. Come join our TJX family—a Fortune 100 company and the world’s leading off-price retailer.

Job Description:

What you’ll do

TJX Solution Architecture provides the strategic and architectural direction for business solutions that enable business growth, reduce risk, and drive efficiency across the enterprise. Our architects enable the adoption of a modern technology foundation, including Cloud, DevOps, and Artificial Intelligence, and explore how we might use other innovative technologies in the future.

As aPrincipal Solution Architect, your focus will be on collaborating with business and IT partners to define technology strategy and architect solutions that enable our Corporate Compliance Responsibility and Sustainability (CCRS) and Global Site Solutions (GSS) teams to meet business and IT strategic needs. As such, you will be responsible for providing technical direction, influencing key stakeholders and driving alignment, selecting new technology, reducing ecosystem complexity, and maintaining operational stability. Your primary responsibility will be to define or evolve the overall solution architecture(s) required to scale IT solutions in the CCRS and GSS areas so that they meet global enterprise needs.

What you’ll need

Key to success is the ability to develop trusted stakeholder relationships, and to deliver value in a dynamic environment. We are a global team, so the ability to work across time zones and cultures is essential.

Must Have:

• Solution Architecture experience with expertise in integration
• Experience setting enterprise technology direction
• Ability to design solutions that are appropriate to the problem at hand – in terms of simplicity, cost, and support required
• Familiarity with multiple architecture disciplines, including application, information, integration, infrastructure and security
• Practical application of cloud computing concepts
• Familiarity with application architecture fundamentals, Service Architecture, Agile, DevSecOps, NFR’s
• Experience working in an Agile delivery environment
• Ability to partner effectively with key stakeholders and to use informal influencing skills to gain consensus
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills
• Strong strategic and critical thinking skills
• Comfortable dealing with ambiguity and adversity
• Ability to learn and adapt quickly

Preferred:

• Experience in the Retail sector (brick and mortar & digital), in a large organization
• Experience in an IT organization with a hybrid IT infrastructure hosting model
• Foundational knowledge of architecture methodologies, standards, and tools
• Experience architecting/designing solutions for deployment on Azure Paas/IaaS

Nice to have but not Required:

• Experience working with an EA tool ( LeanIX)
• Experience working within the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)

Benefits include Associate discount; 401(k) match; medical/dental/vision; HSA; health care FSA; life insurance; short/long-term disability; paid holidays/vacation /sick/bereavement/parental leave; EAP; incentive programs for management; auto/home insurance discounts; tuition reimbursement; scholarship program; adoption/surrogacy assistance; smoking cessation; child care/cell phone discounts; pet/legal insurance; credit union; referral bonuses. All benefits are subject to applicable plan or program terms (including eligibility terms) and may change from time to time. Contact your TJX representative for more information.

In addition to our open door policy and supportive work environment, we also strive to provide a competitive salary and benefits package. TJX considers all applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, gender identity and expression, marital or military status, or based on any individual's status in any group or class protected by applicable federal, state, or local law. TJX also provides reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities in accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act and applicable state and local law.

Address:

770 Cochituate Rd

Location:

USA Home Office Framingham MA 770 Cochituate RdThis position has a starting salary range of $138, to $179, per year. Actual starting pay is determined by a number of factors, including relevant skills, qualifications, and experience. This position is eligible for an annual incentive as well as long-term incentives.

TJX Companies

At TJX Companies, every day brings new opportunities for growth, exploration, and achievement. You’ll be part of our vibrant team that embraces diversity, fosters collaboration, and prioritizes your development. Whether you’re working in our four global Home Offices, Distribution Centers or Retail Stores—TJ Maxx, Marshalls, Homegoods, Homesense, Sierra, Winners, and TK Maxx, you’ll find abundant opportunities to learn, thrive, and make an impact. Come join our TJX family—a Fortune 100 company and the world’s leading off-price retailer.

Job Description:

What you’ll do

TJX Solution Architecture provides the strategic and architectural direction for business solutions that enable business growth, reduce risk, and drive efficiency across the enterprise. Our architects enable the adoption of a modern technology foundation, including Cloud, DevOps, and Artificial Intelligence, and explore how we might use other innovative technologies in the future.

As aPrincipal Solution Architect, your focus will be on collaborating with business and IT partners to define technology strategy and architect solutions that enable our Corporate Compliance Responsibility and Sustainability (CCRS) and Global Site Solutions (GSS) teams to meet business and IT strategic needs. As such, you will be responsible for providing technical direction, influencing key stakeholders and driving alignment, selecting new technology, reducing ecosystem complexity, and maintaining operational stability. Your primary responsibility will be to define or evolve the overall solution architecture(s) required to scale IT solutions in the CCRS and GSS areas so that they meet global enterprise needs.

What you’ll need

Key to success is the ability to develop trusted stakeholder relationships, and to deliver value in a dynamic environment. We are a global team, so the ability to work across time zones and cultures is essential.

Must Have:

• Solution Architecture experience with expertise in integration
• Experience setting enterprise technology direction
• Strong solution architecture & technical design experience
• Ability to design solutions that are appropriate to the problem at hand – in terms of simplicity, cost, and support required
• Familiarity with multiple architecture disciplines, including application, information, integration, infrastructure and security
• Practical application of cloud computing concepts
• Familiarity with application architecture fundamentals, Service Architecture, Agile, DevSecOps, NFR’s
• Experience working in an Agile delivery environment
• Ability to partner effectively with key stakeholders and to use informal influencing skills to gain consensus
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills
• Strong strategic and critical thinking skills
• Comfortable dealing with ambiguity and adversity
• Ability to learn and adapt quickly

Preferred:

• Experience in the Retail sector (brick and mortar & digital), in a large organization
• Experience in an IT organization with a hybrid IT infrastructure hosting model
• Foundational knowledge of architecture methodologies, standards, and tools
• Experience architecting/designing solutions for deployment on Azure Paas/IaaS

Nice to have but not Required:

• Experience working with an EA tool ( LeanIX)
• Experience working within the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)

Benefits include Associate discount; 401(k) match; medical/dental/vision; HSA; health care FSA; life insurance; short/long-term disability; paid holidays/vacation /sick/bereavement/parental leave; EAP; incentive programs for management; auto/home insurance discounts; tuition reimbursement; scholarship program; adoption/surrogacy assistance; smoking cessation; child care/cell phone discounts; pet/legal insurance; credit union; referral bonuses. All benefits are subject to applicable plan or program terms (including eligibility terms) and may change from time to time. Contact your TJX representative for more information. In addition to our open door policy and supportive work environment, we also strive to provide a competitive salary and benefits package. TJX considers all applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, gender identity and expression, marital or military status, or based on any individual's status in any group or class protected by applicable federal, state, or local law. TJX also provides reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities in accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act and applicable state and local law.

Address:

770 Cochituate Rd

Location:

USA Home Office Framingham MA 770 Cochituate RdThis position has a starting salary range of $138, to $179, per year. Actual starting pay is determined by a number of factors, including relevant skills, qualifications, and experience. This position is eligible for an annual incentive as well as long-term incentives.