Sr. Engineering Manager

Target - Minneapolis, Minnesota

About us:
Target is an iconic brand, a Fortune 50 company and one of America’s leading retailers.

Target as a tech company? Absolutely. We’re the behind-the-scenes powerhouse that fuels Target’s passion and commitment to cutting-edge innovation. We anchor every facet of one of the world’s best-loved retailers with a strong technology framework that relies on the latest tools and technologies—and the brightest people—to deliver incredible value to guests online and in stores. Target Technology Services is on a mission to offer the systems, tools and support that guests and team members need and deserve. Our high-performing teams balance independence with collaboration, and we pride ourselves on being versatile, agile and creative. We drive industry-leading technologies in support of every angle of the business, and help ensure that Target operates smoothly, securely and reliably from the inside out.

About This Opportunity

As a Sr. Engineering Manager, you will lead an engineering team in an agile environment building solutions. The key to the success of this position is having strong & innovative approach to problem solving, great technical leadership, excellent communication (written and verbal, formal and informal), flexibility, and a self-motivated working style with attention to detail.

Use your skills, experience and talents to be a part of groundbreaking thinking and visionary goals. As a Sr. Engineering manager of the core Item systems you will leverage your development and leadership skills to guide a team of software engineers to build a new Item master set of capabilities. This new application will need to exist within an incredibly complicated ecosystem with hundreds of upstream and downstream consumers. The core of our retail, digital, and merchandising capabilities rely on Item, so this area is full of opportunities to use creative problem solving and exceptional engineering to advance these systems.

Software Development Organization:

Manage overall software development cycle, driving best practices and ensuring development of high quality code for common assets and framework components.
Build and lead a team of high caliber software development engineers
Architect and develop the best technical design and approach
Manage and execute against project/agile plans and set deadlines
Drive resolution of technology roadblocks including code, infrastructure, build and deployment
Manage cross-product technical dependencies and drive resolutions to conflicts
Advocate for technologies, frameworks, design patterns, processes and guiding values of the domain architecture
Ensure all code adheres to all development & security standards

Requirements for Software Development:

8 years of engineering (software development) experience. Experience with at least one full cycle implementation from requirement to production. Experience in building/implementing high performance & scalable full stack (server client-side) applications
3 years of managing software development teams with a strong track record of project delivery for large, cross-functional projects
Experience operating medium to large scale systems
· Experience with test-driven development and software test automation
Strong sense of ownership
Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present complex technical information in a clear and concise manner to variety of audiences