Principal Architect

TJX Europe

At TJX Europe, every day brings new opportunities for growth, exploration, and achievement. You'll be part of our vibrant team that embraces diversity, fosters collaboration, and prioritises your development. Whether you're working in our Distribution Centres, Corporate Offices, or Retail Stores-TK Maxx & Homesense, you'll find abundant opportunities to learn, thrive, and make an impact. Come join our TJX team-a Fortune 100 company and the world's leading off-price retailer.

Job Description:

What you'll do

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 aPrincipal 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.

What you'll need

Key to success is the ability to develop trusted stakeholder relationships, and to deliver value in a dynamic environment. We are a global team, so the ability to work across time zones and cultures is essential.

Must Have:
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 quicklyPreferred:
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/IaaSNice to have but not Required:
Experience working with an EA tool (I.E. LeanIX)
Experience working within the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)As proud as we are of our past success, it's our future that excites us most. We strive to provide opportunities for growth, recognition and a competitive salary and benefits package. Share our determination to think bolder and bigger, and be part of our future. We consider all applicants for employment without regard to age, disability, gender, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnerships, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and/or sexual orientation.

Address:
73 Clarendon Road

Location:
EUR Home Office Watford GB