Senior Staff Engineer - WFM

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

Senior Staff Engineer – WFM

What you’ll discover

• Inclusive culture and career growth opportunities

• Global IT Organization which collaborates across U.S., Canada, Europe and Australia,  to learn more

• Challenging, collaborative, and team-based environment

What you’ll do

The North American Solution Delivery Selling & Store Operations Team is responsible for managing Front and Back of Stores solutions within TJX IT. The organization delivers capabilities to the stores that enrich the Customer and Associate experience and provide business value. We seek a motivated, talented, experienced Sr. Staff Engineer / Solution Engineer to help guide the lifecycle of these technologies through planning, design and delivery within the Workforce Management solutions.

In this role you will be responsible for leading the technical designs and delivery associated integrated Workforce Management solutions for a cross functional set of Global users. Using your Engineering mindset you will be accountable for identifying and designing robust solutions that align with business objectives and deliver on complex cross-functional epics; informally leading a team of engineers to deliver against technical designs, establish and enforce engineering best practices, navigating a fast-paced environment that challenges you to think creatively and exhibit an agile mindset.

All solution delivery work will be conducted within the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), ensuring that we maintain a focus on engineering excellence and best practices.

What you’ll need

The Global Solution Delivery Team thrives on strong relationships with our business partners and works diligently to address their needs which supports TJX growth and operational stability. On this tightly knit and fast-paced solution delivery team you will be constantly challenged stretch your skillsets, challenge status quo and drive decisions. Our focus and mission are to deliver products that meet our business demand and enrich the Customer and Associate experience.

You will leverage your prior software engineering experience to drive the overall design direction of the products in an evolving delivery environment. You will partner with other technical team members (Managers and Individual Contributors) to implement, monitor, and measure development best practices. You will champion the Engineering Mindset within the wider Product team.

Our ideal candidates will have core engineering and integrations experience with Workforce Management applications to help further support the Workforce Management Modernization, one who is familiar with the challenges of designing, developing, and deploying integrated Workforce Management and Labor Budgeting & Planning software (preferably UKG Pro WFM and UKG WFC) as we continue to modernize our workforce management solutions.

Responsibilities

• Act as a Lead Engineer modernizing workforce management systems by solutioning, prioritizing, providing technical leadership and resolving issues

• Work closely with Enterprise Architecture, Security, Infrastructure, Workforce Management Product and Engineering teams to estimate, design, code, deploy and support working software components

• Adhere to the corporate security compliance, performance etc., ensure platform is built with High Availability, Recoverability etc.

• Produce and review complex design documents

• Recommend optimized design solutions, perform solution deficiency analysis and recommend corrective actions

• Strong problem-solving abilities when working on complex technical problems

• Develop constructive and cooperative working…