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 Architect (Oracle Retail & Merchandising)
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
TJX Enterprise Architecture is spearheading global digital transformation across the organization. The Enterprise Solution Architecture function reports into the Office of CIO, and partners closely with IT product teams to define strategy and architecture that addresses current and future business and technology needs across the enterprise. Our Solution Architects enable the adoption of a modern technology foundation, including Cloud, DevOps, Intelligent Automation, Robotics, AI/ML etc. and explore how we might use other innovative technologies in the future.
As a Merchandising Architect, your focus will be in supporting our "Merchandising" IT functions, which includes Buying, Planning & Merch Operations globally. In this role, you will be instrumental in supporting the Buying, Planning & Merchandising product teams to execute on a strategy to modernize our application ecosystem, and to help deliver on critical new capabilities needed for the Global Merch Initiatives.
What you’ll need
Key to success is the ability to develop trusted stakeholder (IT & Business) 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.
Qualifications: Must have
- Subject matter expertise in Merchandising areas (merchandise planning, price and markdown management, purchase order and inventory management, financial reconciliation, store allocations etc.)
- Experience in Merchandising & Planning ERP platforms like - Oracle Retail, Infor, SAP IS Retail
- Strong design & engineering experience. Ability to design & document solutions that are appropriate to the problem at hand, ensuring simplicity, cost effectiveness, and maintainability
- Experience in Architecture disciplines: standards, designs and patterns (application, integration, security, etc.), blueprints, roadmaps.
- Familiarity with application architecture & development fundamentals, e.g. Service Architecture, Agile, DevSecOps, Cloud, Non-Functional Requirements
- Ability to partner effectively with key stakeholders to influence and gain consensus on Solutions/application architecture
- Excellent communications and collaboration skills
- Strong strategic and critical thinking skills
- Comfortable dealing with ambiguity and adversity
Desired
- Expertise in Oracle Retail MOM application and any other custom Merch Operations platforms
- Experience in defining Architecture Runway by analyzing requirements, documenting & reviewing Solution design options
- Experience working in an agile delivery environment
- Ability to learn and adapt quickly
Preferred Qualifications
- 10+ years of IT experience with at least 5 years in Retail Merchandising ERP Systems
- Experience working in the Retail Industry implementing/enhancing Merchandising Systems
- Familiarity with modern application architecture, e.g. microservices, web/mobile app architecture, cloud-native app architecture in the context of large-scale Enterprise Solutions
- Exposure to variety of software stacks such as Oracle, PL-SQL and other relational databases
Exposure to variety of public cloud platforms like Azure/AWS PaaS services
Address:
770 Cochituate RdLocation:
USA Home Office Framingham MA 770 Cochituate RdThis position has a starting salary range of $138,400.00 to $179,900.00 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
The TJX Companies, Inc. Framingham, Massachusetts, USA Office
770 Cochituate Road, Framingham, MA, United States, 01701
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