Principal Architect

The TJX Companies, Inc.

7d•Onsite

About The Position

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.

Requirements

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

Nice To Haves

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
Experience working with an EA tool (I.E. LeanIX)
Experience working within the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)

Responsibilities

providing technical direction
influencing key stakeholders and driving alignment
selecting new technology
reducing ecosystem complexity
maintaining operational stability
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