Staff Engineer - Workday HCM

Job Description 

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 TJX’s 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 end—creating 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): 

• 5–8 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.  

Preferred Qualifications: 

• Experience integrating Workday with Payroll, Benefits, Finance (ERP), Identity, and external vendors. 

• Experience defining and leading platform-wide standards and best practices. 

• Familiarity with middleware platforms (e.g., Boomi) in support of Workday ecosystems. 

• Experience supporting global, highly integrated HR platforms at enterprise scale. 

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or equivalent practical experience.