Principal Release Train Engineer

TJX • Framingham, MA

111d • $138,400 - $179,900

About The Position

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.

Requirements

• Proven ability as an RTE for an ART with complex deliveries and multiple scrum teams.
• Facilitation of ceremonies, including PI Planning.
• Excellent and proven skills in communication, collaboration and ability to rapidly build relationships with peers, team members and others outside of the ART.
• Assist teams in removing roadblocks, many of which will be beyond the team's authority or will require support from other teams.
• Continuous improvement mindset, highlighting opportunities to improve efficiency of teams, includes tracking measurable improvement.
• Ability to coach and mentor the team on all aspects of agile ways of working.
• Management of dependencies internal and external to the ART.
• Extensive understanding of agile methodology, techniques, frameworks (SAFe, Scrum, or Kanban) and agile tools (such as Jira and Confluence).
• Communicative and social -- excellent interpersonal and group facilitation skills including the ability to work with diverse stakeholders and personality types.
• Assertive - must be able to ensure agile and scrum concepts and principles are adhered to, and not afraid to be a voice of reason and authority.
• Situationally Aware -- must be the first to notice differences and issues as they arise and elevate them, where appropriate.
• Budget tracking and financial analysis.
• 5+ years' experience as a Release Train Engineer using scrum/SAFe.
• Relevant undergraduate BA, BS degree in IT or Business or equivalent experience.
• Certified Release Train Engineer preferred.

Responsibilities

• Oversee the delivery of the two Allocations ARTs, including SAFe best practices, and PI over PI delivery.
• Lead all things Allocations budget management, including IT Finance partnership, submissions, and driving partnership with peers throughout the Fiscal Year Planning process.
• Drive vendor management including SOW and roster management.
• Manage Allocations team Continuous Improvement efforts with clear problem identification and measurable improvements.
• Own ART-wide metrics tracking, interpretation, and communication.
• Act as Servant Leader for Allocations ARTs by ensuring all teams have what's necessary to be successful.
• Partner with peers and other RTEs to remove blocking issues.
• Execute ART-wide communication plans.
• Lead and coach the Allocations RTE, Scrum Master, and Project Analyst team.
• Guide Associate career development.
• Maintain long term team workforce plan.
• Partner with AVPs and Allocations Leadership team to lead a 150+ person Allocations team.
• Ensure alignment of goals and delivery remain visible.
• Maintain relationships with key IT stakeholders outside of the Merchandising team.
• Partner with Manager of Product Management + AVPs to understand Allocations Modernization goals and drivers.
• Drive long term budget and labor forecasting for Allocations Modernization effort.

Benefits

• Associate discount
• 401(k) match
• medical/dental/vision
• HSA
• health care FSA
• life insurance
• short/long-term disability
• paid holidays/vacation/sick/bereavement/parental leave
• EAP
• incentive programs for management
• auto/home insurance discounts
• tuition reimbursement
• scholarship program
• adoption/surrogacy assistance
• smoking cessation
• child care/cell phone discounts
• pet/legal insurance
• credit union
• referral bonuses

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Industry: Clothing, Clothing Accessories, Shoe, and Jewelry Retailers
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree