Mgr of IT Engineering

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 Centres 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:

Office of the CIO / Architecture & Engineering Governance / Engineering Governance

Position:
Manager Of Engineering

What you'll discover
Inclusive culture and career growth opportunities
Global IT Organization which collaborates across U.S., Canada, Europe and Australia,  to learn more
Challenging, collaborative, and team-based environment
What you'll do

You will be responsible for driving engineering governance across the organization, ensuring consistency, quality, and compliance in software development practices. You will coach, lead and develop a team of 5-12 skilled and engaged software engineers at various levels of seniority focused on a number of priorities including:
building and maintaining enterprise-grade, reusable software libraries including Authentication, Telemetry and Caching
consulting and supporting delivery teams on their modernization journeys, ensuring solutions are well-architected, maintainable, and aligned with enterprise standards
establishing and publishing engineering guidance, promoting best practices and architectural excellence across the enterprise

Key Responsibilities including but not limited to:
Establish and enforce engineering governance policies, including coding standards, documentation practices, and review processes.
Ensure alignment with security, compliance, and architectural guidelines across all engineering teams.
Facilitate regular audits and assessments of code quality, repository hygiene, and adherence to governance frameworks.
Lead, mentor, and grow a team of 5-12 software engineers focused on developing reusable components, libraries, and frameworks.
Define and drive the roadmap for reusable code assets aligned with enterprise architecture and business needs.
Collaborate with product, architecture, and platform teams to identify opportunities for efficiency, reuse and standardization.
Act as a liaison between engineering teams and enterprise architecture to ensure strategic alignment.
Communicate progress, risks, and opportunities to senior leadership and cross-functional stakeholders.
Foster a culture of collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement.
Adheres to Sarbanes Oxley compliance and all TJX Company standards as applicable
Performs other duties as assigned

Skills & Knowledge
Proven experience in engineering leadership roles, ideally within large-scale enterprise environments.
Strong understanding of software development lifecycle, architecture principles, and modern engineering practices.

Experience with Git-based repositories, CI/CD pipelines, and governance tooling.
Familiarity with .Net8 Libraries, Authentication protocols (e.g. Microsoft Identity Web, OIDC/JWT, Graph), Telemetry (Open Telemetry, OTLP, App Insights) and secure coding standards (OAuth2/OIDC).
Familiarity with inner-source models and enterprise reuse strategies.
Experience implementing engineering governance frameworks.
Knowledge of cloud-native development, platform engineering, and identity management systems.
Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and team-building skills.

Minimum Qualifications
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field or equivalent
3+ years of direct people management experience.
7+ years of professional software development experience.
Experience in agile software development and continuous improvement concepts.
Comfort providing performance analysis in both technical and non-technical evaluations

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…