Staff Engineer Workday HCM

About TJX:

TJX is a Fortune 100 company that operates off-price retailers of apparel and home fashions. TJX India Hyderabad is the IT home office in the global technology organization of off-price apparel and home fashion retailer TJX, established to deliver innovative solutions that help transform operations globally.

At TJX, we strive to build a workplace where our Associates contributions are welcomed and are embedded in our purpose to provide excellent value to our customers every day. At TJX India, we take a long-term view of your career. We have a high-performance culture that rewards Associates with career growth opportunities, preferred assignments, and upward career advancement.

We take well-being very seriously and are committed to offering a great work-life balance for all our Associates.

What You Will Discover:

• Inclusive culture and career growth opportunities
• Global IT organization collaborating across U.S., Canada, Europe, and Australia
• Challenging, highly collaborative, and technically driven engineering environment

What You Will Do:

• Enterprise Applications Engineering at TJX delivers highly integrated, secure, and scalable platforms that support global HR and Associate experiences.
• As a Staff Engineer Workday HCM, you will provide technical leadership and strategic direction for Workday Core HCM and enterprise integrations. You will lead and deliver Epics, influence platform-level decisions, and partner closely with architects, product managers, HR stakeholders, and engineering teams to evolve TJXs Workday ecosystem.
• This role requires deep expertise in Workday Core HCM, integration architecture, DevSecOps practices, and HR business processes, with the ability to clearly communicate technology strategy to both technical and non-technical audiences while mentoring engineers across teams.

Key Responsibilities:

End-to-End Solution Ownership:

• Lead design, implementation, and support of Workday Core HCM solutions including worker lifecycle, organizations, job architecture, business process framework, and security.
• Architect and deliver medium-to-high complexity enterprise integrations using Workday Studio, EIBs, Core Connectors, REST/SOAP APIs,APIGee,and middleware platforms.
• Fully own Epics end to endcreating architecture, threat models, estimates, designs, configurations, development standards, testing strategies, and production readiness.
• Build solutions that meet non-functional requirements including performance, scalability, security, reliability, and SOX compliance.
• Lead complex design discussions to solve visible, strategic, and cross-domain business problems.

Technical Leadership & Strategy:

• Act as a technical leader for the Workday HCM platform, influencing solution direction across product teams.
• Make architecture, integration, and design decisions within scope, aligning to TJX enterprise standards and long-term roadmaps.
• Contribute to and help define platform-level architectural patterns, integration standards, and best practices.
• Identify emerging technologies and lead proofs of concept to evaluate future Workday and HR technology directions.
• Partner with architects and product leaders to roadmap technical capabilities aligned to HR strategy.

DevSecOps, Quality & Operational Excellence:

• Create and champion DevSecOps best practices for Workday and SaaS integrations, including automation, monitoring, testing, and release readiness.
• Ensure solutions are operationally robust, observable, secure, and resilient.
• Lead troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and resolution of complex production issues.
• Own release impacts, regression testing, deployment coordination, and post-release validation.

Talent Development & Influence:

• Mentor and coach engineers across the Workday and enterprise application teams.
• Support onboarding and skill development of new hires.
• Participate in technical interviews and hiring decisions.
• Share knowledge through documentation, design reviews, and technical enablement sessions.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to HR, Product, and Engineering leaders.

What You Will Need (Minimum Qualifications):

• 58 years of Workday HCM experience with deep functional expertise in Core HCM.
• Advanced experience designing and delivering Workday integrations, including Workday Studio, Core Connectors, EIBs, and Web Services.
• Proven experience leading and owning Epics with minimal guidance.
• Strong understanding of Workday Business Process Framework, security domains, data flows, and reporting.
• Expertise in Workday integration architecture, error handling, monitoring, and scalability.
• Experience working in Agile delivery environments, influencing outcomes beyond immediate team boundaries.
• Strong critical-thinking, decision-making, and stakeholder communication skills.