Sr Engineering Manager - Engineering Enablement

The pay range is $126,600.00 - $227,900.00

Pay is based on several factors which vary based on position, including labor markets, education, work experience, and certifications. In addition to your pay, Target cares about and invests in you as a team member, offering eligible team members and their dependents comprehensive health benefits and programs, which may include medical, vision, dental, life insurance, and more. Other benefits for eligible team members include 401(k), employee discount, short-term disability, long-term disability, paid sick leave, paid national holidays, and paid vacation. Find competitive benefits from financial and education to well-being and beyond at Target Careers Benefits .

The Sr. Engineering Manager (SEM) is responsible for managing a team of engineers building and implementing innovative technology solutions. This role involves leading an engineering team to collect data insights about software systems, developing and deploying code, as well as managing systems in a production environment. The SEM leads teams to fulfill enterprise roadmaps by delivering scalable, secure, innovative, and intelligent systems. Success in this role requires strong problem-solving approaches, technical leadership, excellent communication skills, flexibility, accountability, and a self-motivated working style.

The SEM will work across product teams to implement solutions, understand the technical ecosystem in their area of responsibility, drive outcomes, remove obstacles, ensure commitment to timelines, and manage to an established budget, ensuring teams meet or exceed operational goals around stability and security for their products.

The SEM will coach, develop, assess, manage, and provide timely feedback to ensure high-performing teams and a healthy talent pipeline. They will foster a culture of recognition, establish and execute against a team vision, create authentic connections with the team, and contribute to the mission to reflect the guests that we serve. Additionally, they will maintain knowledge of current and emerging technologies within specialized areas, evaluate new technologies, participate in decision-making, champion research and proof-of-concept activities, and lead functional design and architecture discussions.

As a Sr. Engineering Manager on the Engineering Enablement team, you’ll take the lead as you will:

• Drive Product Development : Lead product development and operations with engineers, drive technical decision-making adhering to Target platform architecture, and focus on team management and development.
• Manage Software Development Cycle : Oversee the software development cycle by adhering to development and security standards, establish good stakeholder communication, and influence product roadmap.
• Advocate Agile and DevOps Practices : Be a strong advocate of agile and DevOps practices across engineers.
• Build and Manage Teams : Build and manage a team of high-performing engineers, provide leadership, coaching, and motivation.
• Career Development and Performance Management : Provide career development and performance management to a team of engineers.

Core responsibilities of this job are described within this job description. Job duties may change at any time due to business needs.

About you:

• 4-year degree 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
• Proficient in building high-performing APIs and writing specs
• Expertise in 2 or more programming languages
• Experience with integration, data handling technologies, and other open-source frameworks
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Team-oriented, passionate about developing others’ skills and capabilities
• Successful track record of working in large enterprise technology ecosystems
• Deep understanding of agile development processes and methodology

This position will operate as a Hybrid/Flex for Your Day work arrangement based on Target’s needs. A Hybrid/Flex for Your Day work arrangement means the team member’s core role will need to be performed both onsite at the Target HQ MN location and virtually, depending upon what your role, team, and tasks require for that day.

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