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:
About The Role:
We’re looking for an experienced
Scrum Master
who blends initiative and flexibility with pragmatic, detail‑oriented delivery. You’ll enable high‑performing Agile teams by removing impediments, fostering collaboration, and driving transparency across stakeholders—from 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 shared‑services 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 needed—always with a continuous‑improvement mindset. Hands‑on 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
