IT Engineering Mgr - Mainframes

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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. 

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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’ll discover

• Inclusive culture and career growth opportunities 
• A truly Global IT Organization that collaborates across North America, Europe, Asia and Australia
• Challenging, collaborative, and team-based environment 
   

What you’ll do

We are looking for a leader ready to contribute to the delivery of globally distributed, high-uptime applications. You will be passionate about developing talent and living and promoting a strong engineering mindset to move our organization to the next level.  You will be a champion of agile and mainframe transformation.  You will work closely with our Product Management and Business team to seek opportunities and solve problems that make TJX better.  You will also be a technical product manager for your domains and develop and evergreen domain, solution roadmaps and strategy working with a broad group of stakeholders.

• Leads with vision & architecture mindset to drive engineering and operational excellence to ensure the products delivered and maintained meet SLA’s, KPI’s, NFR’s, compliance and engineering standards.
• Partners with Stakeholders to drive solutions to meet business needs. 
• Accountable for the planning (inc. estimation / forecasting), execution and success of technical Epics, or technical aspects of larger Epics to achieve business outcomes.
• Ensures mechanisms for technical oversight are in place whilst executing through skilled engineers, including spend, governance & decision making within the Product Team(s) or technical domain(s).
• Accountable for creating and delivering an engineering roadmap for the assigned products, partnering with stakeholders to ensure alignment to Product Roadmaps, Business Strategies and Architectural standards.
• Accountable for the product/platform health (i.e. reliability, quality, supportability) of these products/platforms, and for delivery on Engineering & Operational targets and standards.
• Acts as first point of contact for strategic requests from a technology perspective for their scope of responsibility.
• Serves as a liaison with other IT partners for technical matters relating to their own products (including security related aspects).
• Influence technology, product, program management and business leaders to recommend solutions and articulate trade-offs.
• Serve as a trusted advisor for strategic decisions related to Mainframe and implement modern best practices.
• Perform the vital role of finding, developing, and unleashing the talent Agile Teams and ARTs need to build the high functioning team

What you’ll need to have

As an Engineering Manager, you are accountable for technical product management, engineering health & overall engineering talent management for the assigned scope. You will cultivate a growing team of 7-10 direct reports, managing the day-to-day and month-to-month progress of each team member’s professional journey while coordinating with other leaders to maintain a high-performing team.

You will help foster diverse thinking and problem solving to deliver high-quality releases on a defined cadence. You will be working with product teams, Architecture, and business partners to strategically plan and deliver the technical product features while keeping product quality and security as the priority.

• Track record of solving complex engineering problems at scale with outstanding business and technology results.
• Strong team management and organization skills; ability to lead, motivate, and direct a global workgroup.
• Experience in planning (inc. estimation / forecasting), execution and success of technical Epics, or technical aspects of larger Epics to achieve business outcomes
• Experience in implementing mechanisms & processes for technical oversight whilst executing through skilled engineers, inc. spend, governance & decision making within the Product Team(s) or technical domain(s).
• Ensures best engineering practices are followed/adopted for achieving operational excellence for business solutions (including DevSecOps practices)

Minimum Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience as a software engineer in the IBM Z platform and 3+ years of direct people management experience.
• Extensive experience in COBOL, IMS and DB2.
• Code Review, Solutioning, Mentoring.
• Well versed in DevSecOps best practices and experience with cloud technologies.
• Experience in agile software development and continuous improvement concepts.
• Strong team management and organization skills; ability to lead, motivate and direct global workgroup.
• Comfortable providing timely, constructive performance feedback to technical and non-technical associates.
• Highly developed verbal and written communication skills. Ability to work up and down the organization, able to influence others to achieve results

Nice to have skills:

• DevOps on Z, Mainframe Modernization and Transformation.
• Ability to work in globally distributed teams and develop multi-level relationships.
• Exposure to diverse portfolio of applications is a plus

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.

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