AVP Cybersecurity Identity Governance & Administration
TJX
AVP Cybersecurity Identity Governance & Administration
TJX
Runs off-price clothing and home goods stores
At TJX Companies, every day brings new opportunities for growth, exploration, and achievement. You’ll be part of our vibrant team that embraces diversity, fosters collaboration, and prioritizes your development. Whether you’re working in our four global Home Offices, Distribution Centers or Retail Stores—TJ Maxx, Marshalls, Homegoods, Homesense, Sierra, Winners, and TK Maxx, you’ll find abundant opportunities to learn, thrive, and make an impact. Come join our TJX family—a Fortune 100 company and the world’s leading off-price retailer.
Job Description:
TJX is seeking an experienced strategic leader to run the Identity Governance & Administration function. As an AVP, this role will be part of the Global IT and IT Security Leadership Teams, reporting intoxxxx.
Cybersecurity is a critical function at TJX. The team is a global, centrally managed organization within a global IT function responsible for technology for our home offices, stores, and distribution centersoperatingin the U.S., Canada, Europe, Australia, and India.
Position Description
The AVP,Identityand AccessManagementprovidesstrategic oversight and leadership for the enterprise IGA program. The function governs identity lifecycle management,access management, single sign-on,access requests and approvals, provisioning and deprovisioning, access certifications, entitlement management, role management, segregation of duties, identity data quality, and the onboarding of applications into IGA services.
As an AVP ofCybersecurity, you will lead a global team across architecture, engineering, operations, analysis, and application onboarding. You willestablishthestrategy and roadmap, strengthen identity controls, simplify access processes, improve audit readiness, and partner with business and technology leaders to ensure access remainsappropriate throughoutthe identity lifecycle.
WhatYou’llDo
IAMStrategy and Roadmap: Defines and executes the enterprise strategyfor IGA and Access Management includingtarget state, multiyear roadmap, operating model, and investment priorities aligned with cybersecurity risk, business needs, and modernization goals.
Identity Lifecycle and Access Governance: Leadsjoiner,mover, and leaver processes; access requests and approvals; provisioning and deprovisioning; access certifications; and remediation of inappropriate access.
Entitlement and Role Management:Establishesstandards for entitlement ownership, cataloging, risk classification, role design, birthright access, segregation of duties, access packages, exceptions, and retirement.
Application Onboarding: Leads the intake, prioritization, integration, testing, and production readiness of applications onboarded to IGA using repeatable patterns, clear controls, and accountable ownership.
Product and Operational Leadership: Manages technology and services with clear roadmaps, delivery priorities, service levels, metrics, platform resilience,incidentand change management.
Risk and Compliance: Ensures IAM services meet regulatory, risk, and security requirements; drivestimelyremediation of control gaps and findings.
Automation and Modernization: Uses workflow automation, analytics, self-service, standardized integrations, and process simplification to improve control consistency and reduce access and onboarding cycle times.
WhatYou’llNeed
Minimum10+ years of experience in identity and access management, cybersecurity, information technology, or a related field, with at least 5 years of senior leadership experience.
Experience leading a global IGA function or large-scale identity transformation in a complex, multinational corporate environment with geographically dispersed teams.
Experience leading enterprise platform strategy, architecture, implementation, integration, operations, upgrades, and continuous improvement;
Proven ability to lead major platform implementations and broad application onboarding programs involving business owners, application teams, control partners, vendors, and managed service providers.
Strong understanding of least privilege, Zero Trust, role-based and attribute-based access, birthright access, orphan-account management, policy enforcement, identity analytics, and access risk.
Experience with cybersecurity controls, audit, regulatory compliance, risk management, incident and change management, disaster recovery, and IT service management practices.
Bachelor’s degree in information systems, computer science, cybersecurity, or a related field, or an equivalent experience
Executive presence and excellent presentation, verbal, and written communication skills, including the ability to translate complex identity and control topics into clear business decisions.
Ability to build strong relationships with teammates, leadership, senior management, application and business owners, auditors, control partners, vendors, and other internal and external stakeholders.
Address:
300 Value WayLocation:
USA Home Office Marlborough MA 300 Value WayThis position has a starting salary range of USD $175,700.00 to $228,400.00 per year. Actual starting pay is determined by a number of factors, including relevant skills, qualifications, and experience. This position is eligible for an annual incentive as well as long-term incentives.TJX runs off-price stores that sell brand-name clothing, shoes, accessories and home goods for less than department stores and malls charge, in the United States and abroad. Its best-known U.S. chains are T.J. Maxx, Marshalls and HomeGoods, which shoppers visit often because each store's mix of labels and products changes from week to week. Instead of ordering fixed seasonal collections, its buyers purchase closeouts, canceled orders and excess production directly from brands, and TJX makes money by reselling those goods at markdowns while keeping its own buying costs low. TJX was founded in 1987 and is headquartered in Framingham, Massachusetts.
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