Principal Engineer - Microsoft 365

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.

What You'll Discover

Inclusive culture and career growth opportunities

Global IT Organization which collaborates across U.S., Canada, Europe and Australia

Challenging, collaborative, and team-based environment

The Infrastructure and Operations (I&O) organization embodies the hub of lifecycle engineering at TJX, delivering, maintaining, and optimizing our technology portfolio at cloud scale. We are a service-oriented team aimed at providing extraordinary experiences to thousands of TJX associates, business partners, and application delivery teams across the portfolio.

As a Principal Engineer within our Enterprise Desktop and Collaboration Services (EDCS) team, you will be responsible for achieving operational excellence through new feature and process development within our TJX collaboration systems. This role will be critical for the continuous improvement, feature development, and secure delivery of high business value collaboration tools at TJX. You will use your Microsoft 365 expertise to shape technical proposals, design and implement new solutions, and deliver large transformational programs. The Principal Engineer will lead the design, implementation, and management of these systems, providing technical expertise and strategic guidance to support our global operations.

Key Responsibilities

Lead projects to further secure the TJX Microsoft 365 Platform

Identify improvements to TJX Microsoft 365 environment based on experience and industry expertise.

Partner with other areas within IT to deliver overall improvements to TJX's operational processes and end-user experience.

Author architectural and operational handbooks for documentation and transferring operations from Engineering to Operational teams.

Provide guidance as needed to operational teams to support L3 incident management

Identify methods to monitor and improve service stability through the reduction of incidents and service disruptions.

Maintain expert knowledge in Microsoft 365 changes and industry news.

Lead design approaches for solving visible and complex business problems, provides input into design best practices, define standards for specific processes and / or components.

Mentor and coach engineering mindset within the team.

Responsible for ensuring adherence to all enterprise and security non-functional requirements and standards for the platforms we manage.

Special projects as assigned.

What You'll Need

We seek creative, customer-focused individuals with technical expertise and a mindset for continuous improvement. We rethink how software and infrastructure are delivered at cloud scale and work closely with other teams to improve key services.

Broad and advanced knowledge of the Microsoft 365 platform with subject matter expertise in administration of Microsoft Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, Purview, Defender and Microsoft Teams

Strong Graph API and PowerShell experience automating administrative tasks and reporting

Experience leading governance implementation projects in Microsoft 365

Experience leading the delivery of Microsoft 365 solutions in a large global enterprise practicing Agile methodologies

Experience leading the design and architecture of Microsoft 365 solutions, ensuring they meet business requirements and align with industry best practice

History of creating and improving standard operating procedures and complex cross-functional work processes

Strong team player with a focus on customer experience that provides technical leadership and mentorship to the IT team, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and innovation.

Benefits include associate discount; 401(k) match; medical/dental/vision; HSA; health care FSA; life insurance; short/long-term disability; paid holidays/vacation/sick/bereavement/parental leave; EAP; incentive programs for management; auto/home insurance discounts; tuition reimbursement; scholarship program; adoption/surrogacy assistance; smoking cessation; child care/cell phone discounts; pet/legal insurance; credit union; referral bonuses. All benefits are subject to applicable plan or program terms (including eligibility terms) and may change from time to time. Contact your TJX representative for more information.

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.