Engineer || - Release Management

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:

Engineer II– Release Engineer

Team: TJX Merchandising Planning
What you’ll discover

• Inclusive culture with strong focus on learning, mentorship, and career growth
• Global IT organization partnering across time zones to deliver high-impact solutions
• Challenging, collaborative, team-based environment where you can own features end-to-end

About the team

The Merchandising Planning organization powers how TJX plans and optimizes product decisions on a scale. We build and support planning capabilities across Oracle RPAS, IBM Planning Analytics (TM1), Automation (RPA & TOSCA) and Oracle Exadata. You’ll join a fully integrated Agile team that designs, builds, tests, and runs solutions that directly influence Planning strategies and business outcomes.

What you’ll do

• Assist in defining and maintaining the Environment Strategy environment planning, provisioning support, refresh coordination, test data setup, and cross‑application alignment.
• Support Release Management processes, including release calendars, deployment readiness, cutover support, and coordination across platforms and product teams.
• Contribute to the Batch Strategy by helping build and maintain job orchestration, dependency mapping, monitoring, and runtime optimization.
• Help design, configure, and enhance DevOps pipelines for build automation, deployments, validations, and environment governance.
• Collaborate with platform, product, infrastructure, testing, and integration teams to ensure stable environments and predictable releases.
• Participate in process improvements through documentation, automation, and proactive issue identification.
• Work closely with Testing and Production Support teams to execute release and deployment strategies.

Key responsibilities

• Support Test Environment Management across DEV/SIT/UAT/PERF/Prod to ensure stability, consistency, and readiness.
• Assist with environmental refresh planning, data setup activities, and coordination with upstream/downstream systems.
• Help create and maintain release pipelines, including version control practices, approvals, gating, and post‑deployment checks.
• Support end‑to‑end batch workflow creation using enterprise schedulers (Control‑M or equivalent).
• Troubleshoot basic environment, batch, and release issues; escalate and collaborate with SMEs for resolution.
• Contribute to CI/CD enhancements, automation improvements, and observability instrumentation.
• Maintain documentation: environment maps, release plans, runbooks, batch diagrams, SOPs.
• Provide on‑call or after‑hours support during critical business cycles on a rotational basis.

What you’ll need (Minimum Qualifications)

• 3.5+ years of experience in IT Engineering, Operations, DevOps, or Release Management.
• Good exposure of Test Environment Strategy, including provisioning, data management, and environment setup.
• Hands‑on exposure to Release Management deployment coordination, release planning, cutover execution, rollback concepts.
• Experience supporting or building Batch Strategies using enterprise schedulers (e.g., Control‑M) with basic troubleshooting skills.
• Basic understanding of integration platforms is a plus, including:
  Boomi, Google Apigee, Confluent Kafka, MoveIT Suite (Automation/Gateway/Transfer), WSFTP, IBM ACE, IBM MQ, IBM MQ FTE/MFT, BizTalk, IBM WXS, FTS, IDS, Cleo Harmony, Extol EDI Integrator, Alliance FTP.
• DevOps exposure: CI/CD pipelines (GitHub/GitLab/Azure DevOps), build/deploy automation, artifact handling.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and communication skills with a growth and ownership mindset.
• SAFe Agile experience is a plus.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or equivalent experience.

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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