Sr Engineering Manager – Owned Brands Product Innovations and Design

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The Sr. Engineering Manager (SEM) is responsible for a managing a team of engineers. This role is accountable for leading a team developing code deploying and managing in production. You will be called upon to be the technical representative for your team during cross-team collaborative efforts and planning. Success in this role will require strong and innovative approaches to problem solving great technical leadership excellent communication (written and verbal formal and informal) flexibility accountability and a self-motivated working style with attention to detail.

About this Team:

The Owned Brands Product & Materials Innovation and Design team focuses on building and integrating multiple solutions to facilitate the product design process through various platforms to generate and collaborate on new and emerging inspirations and designs as well as the development of our new Target Trend Brain technology leveraging GenAI to sense trends generate design concepts etc.

Use your skills experience and talents to be a part of groundbreaking thinking and visionary goals. As a Sr. Engineering Manager youll take the lead as you
Drive product development and operations with lead engineers and drive technical decision making adhering to Target platform architecture and other enterprise decisions.

Youll 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.

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 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 building high performing APIs and writing specs
Experience with integration data handling technologies and other open source frameworks

Strong passion for new and emerging tech driving innovation through GenAI capabilities.
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

This position will operate as a Hybrid/Flex for Your Day work arrangement based on Targets needs. A Hybrid/Flex for Your Day work arrangement means the team members core role will need to be performed both onsite at the Target HQ MN location the role is assigned to and virtually depending upon what your role team and tasks require for that day. Work duties cannot be performed outside of the country of the primary work location unless otherwise prescribed by Target. Click here if you are curious to learn more about Minnesota.