The TJX Companies, Inc.
Principal Engineer
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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.
Job Description: Principal Engineer
ROLE OVERVIEW
Provide technical leadership for a global application portfolio that supports business growth and operational efficiency across TJX. Drive modern engineering practices, strengthen delivery effectiveness, and evolve mainframe capabilities to meet changing business needs.
What you will discover
- An inclusive culture with opportunities for career growth
- A global IT organization that collaborates across North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia
- A challenging, collaborative, and team-based environment
Learn more about our global organization: TJX Careers
What you will do
- Set technical direction for the Strategic Growth application portfolio and translate business priorities into scalable, secure, and resilient solutions.
- Lead the evolution of mainframe engineering and delivery practices to improve efficiency, stability, quality, and speed to value.
- Partner with product, architecture, and cross-ART teams to design solutions and deliver complex business capabilities.
- Break down complex problems into clear, actionable steps while maintaining a strong focus on product quality, security, and operational excellence.
- Influence architecture decisions and engineering standards across teams, balancing near-term delivery needs with long-term platform health.
- Mentor engineers, develop technical talent, and foster a culture of accountability, continuous learning, and improvement.
- Support production stability through sound incident, change, and problem-management practices.
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What you will bring
The ideal candidate combines deep mainframe expertise, strategic technical leadership, and a passion for delivering business value through technology. Success in this role requires the ability to influence across disciplines, develop engineering talent, and improve customer and business outcomes.
Minimum qualifications
- 10+ years of software engineering experience in a relevant technical domain, including substantial experience with mainframe technologies such as COBOL, IMS, DB2, CICS, and JCL.
- Demonstrated success defining technical strategy, leading technical direction, influencing cross-functional teams, and delivering complex business or platform outcomes.
- Proven experience designing, building, and supporting scalable, high-performance applications.
- Demonstrated ability to lead, coach, mentor, and influence geographically distributed engineering teams.
- Experience setting clear expectations, fostering accountability, and supporting the growth of engineers at multiple levels.
- Strong knowledge of agile delivery methods and a demonstrated agile mindset.
- Commitment to continuous improvement and learning.
- Experience with incident and change management principles and best practices.
Preferred qualifications
- Exposure to and experience with mainframe modernization practices.
- Knowledge of and experience with DevSecOps practices.
- SAFe Agile certification.
- Experience working across a diverse application portfolio.
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Benefits
Benefits include 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. All benefits are subject to applicable plan or program terms (including eligibility terms) and may change from time to time. Contact your TJX representative for more information.
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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300 Value Way
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USA Home Office Marlborough MA 300 Value Way
This position has a starting salary range of $142,500.00 to $185,300.00 per year. Actual starting pay is determined by a number of factors, including relevant skills, qualifications, and experience. This position is eligible for an annual incentive as well as long-term incentives.
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