Responsible for driving engineering governance, managing a team of software engineers, ensuring software development quality and compliance, and collaborating with architecture and product teams.
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:
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, click here 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 (OpenTelemetry, 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 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.
Address:
770 Cochituate RdLocation:
USA Home Office Framingham MA 770 Cochituate RdThis position has a starting salary range of $153,600.00 to $199,700.00 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.Top Skills
.Net8 Libraries
App Insights
Ci/Cd Pipelines
Git-Based Repositories
Graph
Microsoft Identity Web
Oauth2
Oidc/Jwt
Opentelemetry
Otlp
The TJX Companies, Inc. Framingham, Massachusetts, USA Office
770 Cochituate Road, Framingham, MA, United States, 01701
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