Staff Product Owner | Data Security Engineering

Discovery is at the heart of everything we do. Wherever you find us around the world, if you can think of a product, you can probably find it in our stores, which include TJ Maxx, Marshalls, HomeGoods, Sierra, Winners, Homesense, and TK Maxx. With variety comes plenty of happy surprises—our environment is ever-changing, and that’s just how we like it. Every day is an opportunity to discover something new about our business, our partnerships and even something exciting about yourself. Ready to Discover Different?

The IT Security organization bears the broad responsibilities of delivering information security, practice governance & assurance, and data loss prevention throughout the TJX enterprise. Our worldwide team applies expertise and deep business understanding to ensure confidence for all company associates, investors, and customers.

What you’ll do

As a Staff Product Owner for Data Security Engineering, you will partner with engineers, product management, security leadership, and stakeholders to develop a strategy and roadmaps to enhance Data Security Engineering’s services. You will build and manage relationships with stakeholders, enabling you to act as the voice of the customer. You will engage dependent teams for their support and think through challenges creatively and proactively. You will set a clear direction for your product team, enabling engineers to implement the right work at the right time to support maturity objectives and incremental value delivery. Responsibilities will include leading refinement sessions, planning sessions, maintaining service roadmaps, and participating in quarterly business reviews with key vendors.

What you’ll need

We seek creative, security-minded professionals to provide hands-on talent and social expertise in protecting TJX and its assets. You will respond to externalities and challenges, re-planning when needed while keeping leadership and stakeholders aligned on delivery changes.

• 5-8 years of related experience in an agile delivery framework, or requirement development or Product Owner role.
• Proficient in translating business needs into Features and Stories that teams can develop into deliverables that yield business value. Clearly define and influence vision and scope with acceptance criteria.
• Strong analytical skills to analyze options and drives solutions for complex business problems to deliver business value.
• Understanding of Epic, Feature, and Story refinement, Story point estimation process
• Good communicator of ongoing risks, scope trade-offs, and timeline impacts to partners to ensure alignment.
• Collaborate with Product Manager and other Product Owners to define and coordinate Feature development across other teams and various IT teams to drive for results.
• Solid understanding of Portfolio, Product, and Project Management tools

Preferred Qualifications:

• Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) or Product Owner/Product Manager (POPM) preferred.
• Knowledge of cybersecurity technologies and awareness of NIST CSF
• Experience with encryption, Public Key Infrastructure, and data masking concepts and best practices
• Perform data analysis to understand if the business requirements can be met using the data and identify any gaps.
• Provides guidance, coaching, and mentoring to less experienced Product Owners

Come Discover Different at TJX. From opportunity and teamwork to growth, we think you’ll find that it’s so much more than a job. When you’re a part of our global TJX family, you have the full support of a diverse, close-knit group of people dedicated to finding great deals and fantastic style. Best of all? They have a lot of fun doing it.

We care about our culture, but we also prioritize the tangible stuff (Competitive salaries: check. Solid benefits: check. Plenty of room for advancement: of course). It’s our way of empowering you to make your career here.
                          
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.