Staff Product Owner

About TJX:

TJX is a Fortune 100 global retailer where technology powers millions of daily transactions across thousands of stores. At TJX India in Hyderabad, youll join a high impact engineering hub driving enterprise scale modernization of core retail platforms. We foster a culture grounded in engineering excellence, customer centric thinking, autonomy, and enterprise level influence.

What you will discover:

• A product culture that values clarity, customer obsession, and data driven prioritization
• A global technology organization collaborating across the U.S., Canada, Europe, and Australia
• Opportunities to define product strategy across multiple modernization engineering squads
• A high trust, high performance environment were Product Owners shape transformation outcomes

Our organization:

As the Senior Product Owner supporting Store Web Modernization and adjacent engineering teams, you will play a mission critical role defining product vision, sequencing modernization work, and ensuring engineering teams deliver high value, high quality increments aligned to enterprise modernization strategy. You will partner directly with Senior Engineers, Staff Engineers, Scrum Masters, DevOps, Data Migration, Observability, Integration, and QA teams to drive clarity, alignment, and predictable delivery across deeply technical modernization initiatives.

What you will do:

• Define product vision, roadmap, and value driven prioritization for modernization capabilities and engineering platforms.
• Partner with engineering leads across Java Liberty, .NET Azure, Data Migration, Integration, Observability, DevOps, and QA to translate complex technical work into clear, deliverable increments.
• Own and refine backlogs across multiple squads, ensuring clarity of acceptance criteria, dependency visibility, and sequencing.
• Facilitate cross team alignment for Strangler Fig migrations, API modernization, release safety, and platform level dependencies.
• Drive outcome-based delivery using measurable KPIs such as reliability improvements, defect escape reductions, SLO attainment, and modernization throughput.
• Collaborate with business partners, architecture, and engineering leadership to ensure prioritization aligns with enterprise objectives.
• Lead readiness for releasesensuring functional validation, contract testing alignment, observability onboarding, and change management preparedness.
• Communicate product plans, risks, and progress through crisp, executive ready communication.
• Champion customer centricity, engineering empathy, and delivery excellence across all modernization squads.

Minimum Qualifications:

• 9+ years product ownership or product management experience supporting engineering heavy teams.
• Experience shaping roadmaps for modernization, cloud migration, or distributed systems engineering programs.
• Strong ability to translate technical concepts (CI/CD, IaC, APIs, observability, migrations) into clear product requirements.
• Demonstrated success driving predictable delivery across multi team agile organizations.
• Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills across technical and business audiences.
• Strong experience in Jira Align and Jira Cloud or Confluence

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in retail, store systems, platform engineering, or mission critical operational domains.
• Familiarity with APIM, Open Telemetry, Azure DevOps, cloud modernization, and reliability engineering.
• Hands on experience with data driven prioritization, KPI frameworks, and value-based roadmap planning.
• Certification in Product Ownership or Product Management (CSPO, PSPO, APM, POPM etc.).