Scrum Master

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:

At 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.

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Discover a workplace with an inclusive culture and abundant career growth opportunities at TJX India, a Fortune 100 NYSE-listed company. Join our truly global IT Organization that collaborates seamlessly across North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia in a challenging, collaborative and a team-based environment.

Success is always in style at TJX! Continue to explore career opportunities at TJX, a Fortune 100 company and the leading off-price retailer of clothing and home fashions in the U.S. and worldwide. At TJX, we are proud that, for 40 years, we have provided amazing value to our customers; but the merchandise we sell is just part of our story. We believe that our Associates bring our business to life, and we aim to support you by making TJX a terrific place to work. We are committed to leveraging our differences, and believe that the diverse skills, experiences and background that you bring into the organization will help us continue to succeed.

Our retail chains include TJ Maxx, Marshalls, HomeGoods, Sierra Trading Post and Homesense, as well as tjmaxx.com, homegoods.com, marshalls.com and sierratradingpost.com in the U.S.; Winners, HomeSense and Marshalls in Canada; TK Maxx in the U.K., Ireland, Germany, Poland, Austria and the Netherlands, as well as Homesense and tkmaxx.com in the U.K.; and TK Maxx in Australia. With over $45 billion in sales, more than 3,800 stores and 235,000 Associates world-wide - TJX is an exciting place to grow your career!

The Merchandising Solutions team is responsible for software and systems that support TJX’s world-class Buying, Product Development, Planning and Allocation functions. This also includes Data Analytics and Automation opportunities

Buying is the start of our business cycle – we build and support systems that we use to source, select, negotiate and procure products our customer’s treasure.

Product Development covers the full life cycle of bringing an idea from concept to physical product our customers will find in our stores and love.

Planning and Allocations functions are the know-how of where and how we place our products and how we plan our Buying strategy. We build and support systems that have our proprietary expertise to make the best decisions for our customers and us.

Data Analytics focuses on the data needs of our Buyers and Merchandisers and creating capabilities for them to make the best decisions for TJX and our customers. Automation covers RPA and Power platform solutions that enable our business to work in a more effective and efficient manner.

You will be a part of a fully integrated agile team that is empowered to make decisions and look for improvements of how you get your work done. You will design, build, test and deliver software solutions that align to our business value. You will work with various stakeholders both inside our team and the broader TJX organization to refine ideas and provide options to solve problems. You will be laser focused on the quality and goodness of what we deliver and how we deliver it.

Responsibilities:

• Leading the planning and execution of work for your scrum teams (Program Increment and Sprint planning)
• Understanding timelines of delivering your team’s Features
• Facilitating and tracking the team’s progress towards reaching planned Sprint and PI goals (including logging risks/issues/dependencies and thinking about mitigations) by reviewing team burndowns
• Running regular Retrospectives to identify bottlenecks that hinder the team and other areas of improvements the team can make (and also ensuring there are owners and plans for all action points)
• Eliminating blockers/impediments through effective engagement and conversation with people inside and outside of the team
• Ensuring the team follow official SOX and audit compliance processes and procedures to mitigate issues being deployed into Production
• Completing and submitting deployment documentation (Service Now and MKS) on behalf of the team and coordinate with the Enterprise Change Management team
• Supporting Feature refinement sessions, coaching teams to break down + story point work in the most effective way
• Ensuring goals & scope are understood (through the Product Owner) and can be fulfilled by team members
• Ensuring teams are identifying enablers + internal and external dependencies (and the ability to understand how these dependencies impact the overall plan to deliver a Feature)
• Collaborating with Product Owner, customers and developers to identify and clarify scope of problems/issues in terms of business/systems requirements and processes
• Supporting the team’s efforts to continuously improve communications and relationships with other delivery teams; represent the team in the Scrum of Scrums (SoS), helping the team remain aware of engagement opportunities and program effectiveness

Requirements:

• Overall 4+ years of experience with minimum of 2+ years as a Project Manager / Scrum Master
• Proactive and ‘can do’ attitude with the drive to deliver
• Willingness (and aptitude) to understand the subject matter of what your teams are delivering
• Ability to collaborate well with a wide variety of people
• Strong oral (presentation + conversational communication) and written skills
• Strong number years of experience as a scrum master of 1 or more teams in an IT environment
• Must have experience in a SAFe IT delivery model
• Must have the ability to work with JIRA, Confluence, Mural and Service Now
• Must have the ability to influence deadlines to internal teams and external partners

Preferred Qualifications:

• SAFE Agile Certifications are a plus
• Supporting Azure and Microsoft .NET technologies releases is a plus

Join TJX India and contribute to the company's growth to $60B, showcasing your team leadership skills and fostering a collaborative and innovative engineering environment. Be part of a team that shapes the future of merchandise operations on a global scale.

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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