The Merchandising Planning team at Target needs a Sr. Engineering Manager to lead a team of engineers, develop code, deploy and manage in production, and drive technical decision making to increase guest relevance by connecting the entire assortment lifecycle through data and science driven planning and decision-making.
Requirements
- 7+ years of engineering (software development) experience
- 1-3 years of managing teams with a strong track record of delivery for cross-functional product experience with Cloud hosting and managing products
- Proficient in building high performing APIs and writing specs
- Expertise in 2 or more of the programming languages
- Experience with integration, data handling technologies and other open source frameworks
- Deep understanding of agile development processes and methodology including continuous integration and delivery, with a mindset of building incrementally and delivering business value quickly
- Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present complex technical information in a clear and concise manner to variety of audiences
Responsibilities
- Drive product development and operations with lead engineers and drive technical decision making, adhering to Target platform architecture and other enterprise decisions.
- You’ll have a strong focus on team management and development, equal focus will be on writing production code and hands on active development of the capabilities and solutions.
- Assist in defining infrastructure need, internal vs. external cloud and use of Target enterprise solution and drive resolution of technology roadblocks including code, infrastructure, build and deployment and managing overall software development cycle by adhering to development and security standards.
- Establish good stakeholder communication and work closely with Product teams and influence set product roadmap and help drive requirements while being a strong advocate of extreme agile and DevOps practices across engineers.
- Build and manage a team of high performing full stack engineers and provide leadership, coaching, motivation and recommend staffing levels, operating procedures, tools and systems for the team.
- Provide career development and performance management to a team of engineers.
- Drive technical decision making and adhere to Target platform architecture and other enterprise decisions.
Other
- 4 year degree in or equivalent experience
- Team-orientated, passionate about developing others’ skills and capabilities
- Successful track record of working in large enterprise technology ecosystems leading complex technology teams
- Ability to work in a Hybrid/Flex for Your Day work arrangement based on Target’s needs
- Ability to work onsite at the Target HQ MN location and virtually
