Sr Engineering Manager - Target Application Platform

Target Target · Retail · NCD-0375 Brooklyn Park, MN

Sr. Engineering Manager responsible for leading a team of engineers in building and managing Target's internal infrastructure and application management platform (TAP). This role involves driving product development, technical decision-making, team management, and ensuring the deployment and support of software applications across Target's retail environment.

What you'd actually do

  1. Drive product development and operations with lead engineers and drive technical decision making, adhering to Target platform architecture and other enterprise decisions.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.

Skills

Required

  • 4 year degree in or equivalent experience
  • 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 capabilities and use of Kubernetes as a platform
  • Proficient in building high performing APIs and writing specs
  • Expertise using one or more of the following programming languages: Golang, Java/Kotlin/JVM
  • Experience maintaining systems using Bash scripting
  • Experience with integration, data handling technologies and other open source frameworks
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present complex technical information in a clear and concise manner to variety of audiences
  • Team-orientated
  • passionate about developing others’ skills and capabilities
  • Successful track record of working in large enterprise technology ecosystems leading complex technology teams
  • Deep understanding of agile development processes and methodology including continuous integration and delivery, with a mindset of building incrementally and delivering business value quickly

What the JD emphasized

  • highly innovative and cutting edge solutions
  • highly functional, exceptionally innovative and intelligent software
  • strong and innovative approaches to problem solving
  • writing production code
  • hands on active development of the capabilities and solutions
  • drive resolution of technology roadblocks
  • strong advocate of extreme agile and DevOps practices
  • high performing full stack engineers
  • high performing engineers
  • software quality
  • iterative delivery of capabilities
  • Proficient in capabilities and use of Kubernetes as a platform
  • Proficient in building high performing APIs and writing specs
  • Expertise using one or more of the following programming languages: Golang, Java/Kotlin/JVM
  • Experience maintaining systems using Bash scripting
  • Deep understanding of agile development processes and methodology including continuous integration and delivery