Job Description

Discovery is at the core of everything we do whether its a great value, incredible style, or building long-lasting partnerships with people around the world. Thats what makes TJX different. You can find it all across our brands: TJ Maxx, Marshalls, HomeGoods, Sierra, and Homesense. Every one of our brands has one thing in common: environments that are always changing. Thats just how we like it. Every day is an opportunity to discover something new about our business, our partnerships, and even about yourself. Come discover what different can mean for you.

Posting Notes: Marlborough || MA

Our diverse team, with a wide array of backgrounds, thoughts and experience, makes our mission come to life!

As an experienced Agile Coach (SAFe), youll join us at the start of our exciting journey to transform TJX IT Product Teams to deliver faster, cheaper and with better quality through the adoption of SAFe and by demonstrating a DevOps and Cloud approach.

Your expertise leading Scaled Agile transformations and demonstrated passion for driving Continuous Improvement in IT organizations, will enable you to play an integral part in transforming the way TJX delivers value to our IT stakeholders. As well as contributing to our transformational journey, you may also be called upon to act in an advisory capacity to smaller TJX IT delivery teams that have already adopted Scrum/Kanban.

This is an individual contributor role, you will be recognized as a leader and expert in Agile, SAFe and Product Team structure and IT teams will naturally gravitate to you for mentorship. As such, you will affect significant change without direct authority over resources with whom you interact.

Job responsibilities:

* Mentor and coach teams to adopt an agile approach and become self-organizing.
* Support the Transformation Team in fostering a fail fast, fail cheap ethos in the organization in order to speed delivery, build in quality from the start and position our associates for success using the new way.
* Assist with establishing a Center of Excellence (COE) for Agile practices and developing a culture of Continuous Improvement across our product teams.
* May be required to establish an Agile training curriculum.
* Provide mentorship on PI planning and Inspect & Adapt events.
* Responsible for the delivery of training and the day-to-day coaching needed to transition traditional development teams to Agile/Scaled Agile.
* Advise organizational leadership on how best to monitor the success of Agile delivery.
* Act as trusted advisor to teams transitioning from a matrixed project delivery structure to a product-based delivery organization.
* Mentor and pair with change agents at TJX to enable them to become true SAFe champions and build sustaining Agile capabilities.

Qualifications:

Basic:

* 7+ years of Agile coaching experience which includes
* 3+ years practicing/coaching Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) delivery.
* Strong knowledge of Scrum, Kanban and Value Stream Mapping (VSM)
* Certification as a SAFe Program Consultant (SPC 4.5) is preferred.
* PMI-ACP, CSM, IC Agile (ICE-AC) etc. desirable.
* Hands-on experience participating in and leading Scrum/SAFe events, such as Sprint Planning, Release Planning, and Program Increment (PI) Planning.
* Deep knowledge of ADLM tools particularly Jira and Confluence.

Preferred:

* Ideal candidate will have performed one or more of the following roles in your career to date - Agile Consultant, Product Owner/Manager, Scrum Master
* Understanding of Agile technical best practices and DevOps concepts (CI/CD, TDD,) automation tools, coding standards, source control management, build processes, PaaS/IaaS (Microsoft Azure preferred)
* Solid understanding of Agile metrics for teams and programs.
* Ability to effectively communicate and develop relationships at all levels of the organization.
* Must be a strong and influential leader who collaborates naturally with all levels.
* Have demonstrate advanced problem solving skills, which you will use to improve our consistency in areas such as project planning, estimating and project delivery.

Discover Different at TJX means opportunity, teamwork, and career growth. Thats why working here is so much more than a job. When youre a part of our TJX family, you have the full support of a diverse, close-knit group of people that work together to deliver the best value and style in the business. Our inventory is always changing and our approach is continually evolving, which means every day is another chance to Discover Different.

We care about our culture, but we also prioritize the tangible stuff competitive pay, great benefits, and a great group of people.

We consider 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. We also provide reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities in accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act and applicable state and local law.

Posting Notes: Marlborough || MA

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