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: About TJX:

• TJX is a Fortune 100 company that operates off-price retailers of apparel and home fashions. TJX India
• Hyderabad is the IT home office in the global technology organization of off-price apparel and home fashion retailer TJX, established to deliver innovative solutions that help transform operations globally. At TJX, we strive to build a workplace where our Associates’ contributions are welcomed and are embedded in our purpose to provide excellent value to our customers every day. At TJX India, we take a long-term view of your career. We have a high-performance culture that rewards Associates with career growth opportunities, preferred assignments, and upward career advancement. We take well-being very seriously and are committed to offering a great work-life balance for all our Associates.

What you will discover:

• Inclusive culture and career growth opportunities

• A truly Global IT Organization that collaborates across North America, Europe, Asia and Australia, click here to learn more

• Challenging, collaborative, and team-based environment

Our Organization:

The Global Workforce Management Delivery organization is responsible for delivering technology solutions to drive growth, enable efficiency, and improve the associate experience for a cross functional set of Global users. We innovate across all TJX banners to ensure first-class workforce management process for our associates, modern labor budgeting and planning models, enable streamlined communication and collaboration cross functionally, facilitate enhanced productivity and much more!

We are on a mission to modernize our solutions, which include extending our solutions globally and exploring rationalization opportunities and employee self service / mobile solutions. We aspire to align with our global partners to deliver high value products and streamlined experiences to our associates. Our commitment is to lead the way, empowering our team to drive efficiencies, grow skills, and deliver great solutions.

Responsibilities:

Staff Product Owner is Responsible for defining Team Product Backlog of User Stories including backlog prioritization, refinement, and creation of acceptance criteria along with agreed upon definition of done. Has a proficient knowledge of SAFe principles, Kanban, and Scrum including embracing agile principles and applying lean agile mindset. Demonstrates critical thinking skills like Analytical, Problem Solving, Open-minded, creativity, etc. Sr. Product Owner is an expert in at least one Product/Domain area that guides, informs, and provides insight on product enhancements, maintenance, and efficiencies needed. Product Owners at this level can support the delivery of assigned Product Increment (PI) objectives.

• Responsible for defining team product backlog of features, including backlog prioritization, refinement, and creating of acceptance criteria

• Partner with the Product Manager to understand priorities and PI features and supports driving the Product Increment (PI) objective at the Team Level

• Drives Iteration Goals and content via prioritized features and user stories

• Product/Domain expert that guides, informs, and provides insight on what product enhancements, maintenance and efficiencies/remediation are needed

• Ensures the technical integrity of the solution

• Product decision maker including Functional and NFRs; accepts User Stories and Iteration Increments

• Conducts impact analysis for optimal product delivery

• Ensures team risks and dependencies are identified and managed

• Collaborator of dependencies with the team, Product Manager and other teams for optimal delivery outcomes

• Use of metrics to assess team progress and areas for improvement

• Leverages various Agile processes and planning tools

• Supports DevOps and Security best practices

• Instrumental role in the preparation of the system demo as well as producing the system demo

• Attends and actively participates in Release Train Ceremonies: PI Planning, System Demo, ART Sync, and Inspect & Adapt when part of an ART

• Attends and actively participates in Team Agile Ceremonies

• Ensures feedback from System Demos Retrospectives and I&A workshops are taken back to teams for possible inclusion in future continuous improvement activities

• Enable the team to be empowered and self-regulated

Minimum qualifications:

• 9 + years of experience as a Product Owner in a technology environment supporting large complex project/product implementations, working directly with business owners to identify and prioritize their needs.

• Proven knowledge of agile methodology, scrum, SAFe, and agile tools (JIRA/Confluence) and working as part of an ART (Agile Release Train)

• Experience with working with complex integrations in a retail environment, particularly workforce management, involving multiple applications and integration methods

• Excellent communication, presentation, and leadership skills.

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

• Adapt to a fast-paced environment, managing multiple projects simultaneously and making informed decisions quickly

• Ability to collaborate well with a wide variety of people including, but not limited to, product managers, engineers and stakeholders

• Experience in defining/prioritizing a team backlog of user stories including acceptance criteria.

• Experience of analyzing cross functional business processes and defining integrated user stories

• Experience in managing dependencies and shifting priorities in and across sprints /PIs.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, tailoring to all audiences.

• Excellent critical thinking skills and demonstrated ability to proactively manage stakeholder expectations

• Degree or certification in IT or a related field

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in a SAFe IT delivery model

• Product Owner / Product Manager Certification (POPM) preferred

• Knowledge of DevOps and Security best practices a benefit

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:

Salarpuria Sattva Knowledge City, Inorbit Road

Location:

APAC Home Office Hyderabad IN: