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 StoresTJ 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 familya Fortune 100 company and the world's leading off-price retailer.
Job Description
About The Role:
We're looking for an experienced
Scrum Master who blends initiative and flexibility with pragmatic, detailoriented delivery. You'll enable highperforming Agile teams by removing impediments, fostering collaboration, and driving transparency across stakeholdersfrom Product Owners to senior leadership. In partnership with Product and Engineering, you'll keep the backlog continuously refined and prioritized, and you'll plan & coordinate production deployments for large epics spanning multiple product and sharedservices teams. Expect a highly collaborative, global environment with an inclusive culture and significant opportunities for growth. You'll coach teams on Scrum/SAFe, manage internal and external dependencies, and raise risks to the RTE and leadership when neededalways with a continuousimprovement mindset. Handson proficiency with
JIRA, Confluence, and ServiceNow is essential, along with strong facilitation, negotiation, and mentoring skills.
Major Duties & Responsibilities
- Supports team impediment removal and dependency tracking
- Facilitates Agile team ceremonies
- Ensures team agreements are in place
- Drives team iteration commitments and plan to maximize business value delivery
- Collaborates with other Scrum Masters across the ART as necessary
- Coordinates with other teams as necessary
- Key Partner with the Product Owner to ensure product backlog items are refined, prioritized, and scheduled
- Supports estimating activities within the team
- Support planning and coordination of deployments into production for large epics and initiatives spanning multiple team
- Responsible for facilitating capacity planning
- Reviews metrics to measure team progress and responsible for achieving baseline KPI
- Validates time tracking
- Protects team from external interference
- Supports ART Readiness/Preparations
- May provide Flow Board Management if supporting a Kanban team
Minimum Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience as a Scrum Master with dedicated agile teams using scrum/SAFe
- Proven success working in a highly collaborative, matrix environment, with a track record of accomplishments with measurable business impact
- Strong communication, facilitation, negotiation, and mentor skills
- Solid experience of agile methodology, techniques, and frameworks such as Scrum or Kanban to deliver solutions
- Self-motivated and flexible individual who adapts quickly and can work well in a team
- Continuous improvement mindset and ability to improve efficiency of scrum teams and the enterprise
- Management of dependencies internal and external to scrum team
- Communication skills to raise risks and blockers when necessary to RTE and appropriate team members/leadership
- Experience working closely with Product Owner to understand and align on backlog priorities
- Excellent interpersonal and group facilitation skills including the ability to work with diverse stakeholders and personality types
- Assertive - must be able to ensure agile and scrum concepts and principles are adhered to, and not afraid to be a voice of reason and authority
- Tools experience in JIRA, Confluence & ServiceNow
Preferred Skills
- Certified Scrum Master (CSM), PMI-ACP, SAFe SM preferred
- Hands-on experience participating in and leading Scrum/SAFe events, such as Sprint Planning, Release Planning, and Program Increment (PI) Planning
- Working knowledge of Supply Chain
- Ability to prioritize and re-prioritize in a fast-paced environment
- Thinking outside of the box is a big plus
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
