Staff Product Owner – Modernization Engineering

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:

About TJX:

TJX is a Fortune 100 global retailer where technology powers millions of daily transactions across thousands of stores. At TJX India in Hyderabad, you’ll join a high‑impact engineering hub driving enterprise‑scale modernization of core retail platforms. We foster a culture grounded in engineering excellence, customer‑centric thinking, autonomy, and enterprise‑level influence.

What you will discover

• A product culture that values clarity, customer obsession, and data‑driven prioritization
• A global technology organization collaborating across the U.S., Canada, Europe, and Australia
• Opportunities to define product strategy across multiple modernization engineering squads
• A high‑trust, high‑performance environment where Product Owners shape transformation outcomes

Our Organization:

As the Senior Product Owner supporting StoreWeb Modernization and adjacent engineering teams, you will play a mission‑critical role defining product vision, sequencing modernization work, and ensuring engineering teams deliver high‑value, high‑quality increments aligned to enterprise modernization strategy. You will partner directly with Senior Engineers, Staff Engineers, Scrum Masters, DevOps, Data Migration, Observability, Integration, and QA teams to drive clarity, alignment, and predictable delivery across deeply technical modernization initiatives.

What you will do

• Define product vision, roadmap, and value‑driven prioritization for modernization capabilities and engineering platforms.
• Partner with engineering leads across Java Liberty, .NET Azure, Data Migration, Integration, Observability, DevOps, and QA to translate complex technical work into clear, deliverable increments.
• Own and refine backlogs across multiple squads, ensuring clarity of acceptance criteria, dependency visibility, and sequencing.
• Facilitate cross‑team alignment for Strangler‑Fig migrations, API modernization, release safety, and platform‑level dependencies.
• Drive outcome‑based delivery using measurable KPIs such as reliability improvements, defect escape reductions, SLO attainment, and modernization throughput.
• Collaborate with business partners, architecture, and engineering leadership to ensure prioritization aligns with enterprise objectives.
• Lead readiness for releases—ensuring functional validation, contract‑testing alignment, observability onboarding, and change‑management preparedness.
• Communicate product plans, risks, and progress through crisp, executive‑ready communication.
• Champion customer‑centricity, engineering empathy, and delivery excellence across all modernization squads.

Minimum Qualifications

• 9+ years product ownership or product management experience supporting engineering‑heavy teams.
• Experience shaping roadmaps for modernization, cloud migration, or distributed‑systems engineering programs.
• Strong ability to translate technical concepts (CI/CD, IaC, APIs, observability, migrations) into clear product requirements.
• Demonstrated success driving predictable delivery across multi‑team agile organizations.
• Exceptional communication and stakeholder‑management skills across technical and business audiences.
• Strong experience in Jira Align and Jira Cloud Or Confluence

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in retail, store systems, platform engineering, or mission‑critical operational domains.
• Familiarity with APIM, OpenTelemetry, Azure DevOps, cloud modernization, and reliability engineering.
• Hands‑on experience with data‑driven prioritization, KPI frameworks, and value‑based roadmap planning.
• Certification in Product Ownership or Product Management (CSPO, PSPO, APM, POPM etc.).

Come Discover Different at TJX. From opportunity…

Come Discover Different at TJX. From opportunity and teamwork to growth, we think you’ll find it’s more than a job. We care deeply about our culture, but also prioritize the tangible things—competitive compensation, strong benefits, and clear advancement paths. We consider all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, gender identity or expression, marital or military status.

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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