IT Engineering Manager – Integration Platform Engineering Services

Why This Role Matters

Key Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and develop a team of engineers across varying levels of experience, creating an environment where people can grow, contribute, and deliver with confidence.
• Build a strong engineering culture focused on ownership, collaboration, technical excellence, reliability, and continuous improvement.
• Drive execution across integration platforms and modernization initiatives that support enterprise-scale business capabilities.
• Partner with product, architecture, security, networking, store operations, and platform engineering teams to align priorities, manage dependencies, and deliver outcomes.
• Strengthen engineering practices including secure coding, peer reviews, CI/CD quality gates, infrastructure-as-code, Definition of Done, and operational readiness.
• Champion platform reliability through observability, staged rollouts, feature flags, rollback readiness, incident preparedness, and post-incident learning.
• Provide technical leadership across code, Test auto m a tion, pipelines, integration patterns,, infrastructure-as-code, and distributed troubleshooting to help teams move faster.
• Support hiring, onboarding, mentoring, and retention of strong engineering talent for TJX India’s growing technology organization.
• Represent the platform team within the Engineering Community of Practice and contribute to broader engineering standards and reusable practices.
• Communicate progress, risks, decisions, and outcomes clearly with engineering teams, product partners, and senior stakeholders.

Minimum Qualifications

• 15+ years of overall technology experience, including 5+ years of people management experience.
• Demonstrated experience leading engineering teams in integration platform, application integration, or data integration environments.
• Strong understanding of application integration, data integration platforms, enterprise delivery practices, and modern engineering ways of working.
• Proven ability to lead complex modernization initiatives with cross-functional dependencies, production impact, and aggressive timelines.
• Strong communication , stakeholder management, coaching, and decision-making skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with integration technology stacks such as Azure APIM and Fivetran CDC ,Boomi , Apigee, Kafka, Managed File Transfer, IBM ACE, WebSphere Application Server, and DataStage.
• Experience with SLOs, error budgets, incident management, on-call leadership, and operational readiness practices.
• Experience with observability, monitoring, OpenTelemetry , secure enterprise delivery patterns, and high-reliability systems.
• Exposure to cloud-native engineering, Azure, Test automa tion, DevOps, CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, and platform modernization practices.

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