Principal Engineer
About the role
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:
Principal Engineer
What you'll discover
- Inclusive culture and career growth opportunities
- A truly Global IT Organization that collaborates across North America, Europe, Asia and Australia, click here to learn more
- Challenging, collaborative, and team-based environment
Our Organization
technical leadership, data architecture, AI innovation, and organizational influence
Analytics, and business impact
.
You will collaborate closely with product teams, architects, and business stakeholders to strategically plan and deliver product capabilities by bridging business needs with technical solutions. This role requires breaking down complex challenges into actionable components that enable efficient product development while ensuring high standards of quality and security. Within your scope, you will lead and make key decisions related to architecture, design, and overall technical direction
Strategy & Architecture
- Define and execute the data strategy, roadmap, and architecture
aligned with business objectives.
- Establish and enforce
engineering best practices, design standards, and development processes
.
- Evaluate emerging technologies and lead
POCs to drive next-generation data and AI solutions
Delivery & Execution
- Design and deliver scalable data platforms, pipelines, and BI solutions
- Lead
cross-functional initiatives
, owning epics and driving execution from concept to delivery.
- Ensure
data quality, security, scalability, and performance
AI & Innovation
- Drive adoption of Gen AI and Agentic AI
to enhance analytics, automation, and decision-making.
- Lead development of
AI-powered analytics and reporting solutions
Stakeholder Collaboration
- Partner with business, product, and architecture teams to
translate complex requirements into technical solutions
.
- Act as a
trusted advisor
Subject Matter Expertise
- Serve as a domain expert
in data systems and business applications.
- Own technical roadmaps, influence IT investments, and guide
enterprise data platform evolution
Talent Development & Leadership
- Mentor engineers, onboard new hires, and conduct technical coaching and knowledge-sharing sessions
.
- Support hiring through
technical interviews and talent evaluation
.
- Champion
DevOps and engineering excellence
Ownership & Initiative
- Take ownership of critical initiatives, proactively solving complex problems.
- Lead
cross-team collaboration
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree with 15+ years
, or Master's degree with
12+ years
data engineering, analytics, or business intelligence
.
- Extensive experience in
data-intensive environments
, translating business needs into technical solutions.
- Strong expertise in: •
Snowflake, Databricks, Pyspark, Fabric, Power BI
SQL, Oracle, Python, data modelling, and data warehousing
- Any cloud platforms like
Azure
AWS
GCP
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)
- Hands-on experience in
data management and platform development
.
- Deep knowledge of
data quality, governance, and advanced data architectures
.
- Proven experience building and leading
enterprise-scale data platforms
.
- Strong knowledge of
Business Intelligence systems, reporting.
- Demonstrated leadership in
data engineering, warehousing, or data science domains
.
- Excellent
communication, influence, and stakeholder management skills
.
- Strong mentoring capability and ability to work in
fast-paced, complex environments
Preferred Qualifications
- Expertise in driving AI-driven innovation in data systems
, including performance, scalability, and reliability improvements.
- Strong business acumen with the ability to align
data initiatives to strategic outcomes
.
- Experience working across
multi-cloud or hybrid environments
.
- Advanced degree in
AI, distributed systems, or data engineering
.
- Machine Learning and AI solutions
- Experience working with event driven and distributed architectures, APIs
- Proven ability to operate effectively in
ambiguous and rapidly evolving environments
Key Competencies
- Strategic thinking and execution excellence
- Advanced data architecture and engineering expertise
- Strong leadership and mentoring skills
- Effective communication and stakeholder engagement
- Innovation mindset with focus on AI and data transformation
- Commitment to diversity, inclusion, and team collaboration
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:
Salarpuria Sattva Knowledge City, Inorbit Road
Location:
APAC Home Office Hyderabad IN
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