Principal Architect

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

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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 a Principal 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, e.g. 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 (I.E. LeanIX)
• Experience working within the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)

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