Sr Engineering Manager - Digital
Target
Bangalore,IndiaPosted 1 month ago
Skill Required
Engineering ManagerEngineeringCI/CDR ProgrammingsecuritybuildingAndroidwrittenDevOpsAgileiOSAIFulltime
Key highlights
- 7+ years of experience in software development and team management required
- 4-year degree or equivalent experience required
- 1-3 years of managing teams delivering high-performing and scalable Mobile applications and websites required
- Demonstrates strong proficiency in AI-driven software development and modern engineering workflows
Role overview
Target is a Fortune 50 company with more than 400,000 team members worldwide. Target in India operates as a fully integrated part of Target's global team from Bengaluru with more than 4,000 team members, supporting the company's global strategy and operations. Within Target Tech, the Digital Engineering team creates top-notch shopping experiences through target.com and flagship Android and iOS apps, personalizing and rewarding the guest journey across discovery, inspiration, purchase, and post-transaction stages. The Sr. Engineering Manager (SEM) leads a high-performing team of frontend engineers building digital experiences for authentication, profile management, discovery, privacy, and more on target.com and flagship Android and iOS apps.
Responsibilities
- Drive product development and operations with lead engineers and drive technical decision making, adhering to Target platform architecture and other enterprise decisions.
- Focus on team management and development with equal focus on writing production code and hands-on active development of the capabilities and solutions.
- Assist in Target-internal technical platform usage 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 and UX teams, influence 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 front-end 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.
- Lead a high-performing team of frontend engineers building digital experiences for authentication, profile management, discovery, privacy, etc., on target.com website and flagship Android and iOS apps.
- Be accountable for team's high-quality and high-performant code, technical roadmap and decisions, upholding engineering and security best practices, stakeholder management, and strong partnership with product and UX leaders.
- Build strong partnerships with the global engineering and product teams and work with many other experience teams in order to deliver the end-to-end funnel experience for guests.
- Apply 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.
- Drive AI adoption to improve engineering and product outcomes, establishing scalable, secure, and compliant integrations with strong governance and validation.
Requirements
- 4-year degree or equivalent experience
- 7+ years of experience in software development and team management
- 1-3 years of managing teams with a strong track record of delivering high-performing and scalable Mobile applications and websites
- Possesses a strong understanding of systems programming and control languages as required by your domain
- Has demonstrated success in solving complex technical problems in more than one technical or functional areas
- Expertise in 2 or more of the programming languages
- Understands business fundamentals and how technologies can support business goals along with how to translate business vision into a technical strategy while understanding the financial implications
- Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present complex technical information in a clear and concise manner to a variety of audiences
- 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
- Demonstrates strong proficiency in AI-driven software development and modern engineering workflows
Nice to have
- Team-orientated, passionate about developing others' skills and capabilities
Additional details
- Target is a Fortune 50 company with more than 400,000 team members worldwide and an iconic brand and one of America's leading retailers.
- Joining Target means promoting a culture of mutual care and respect and striving to make the most meaningful and positive impact.
- Becoming a Target team member means joining a community that values different voices and lifts each other up, believing your unique perspective is important and building relationships by being authentic and respectful.
- Target in India, based in Bengaluru, operates as a fully integrated part of Target's global team with more than 4,000 team members supporting the company's global strategy and operations.
- Every time a guest enters a Target store or browses Target.com, they experience the impact of Target's investments in technology and innovation; Target Tech is the team behind delivering joy to millions of guests, team members, and communities.
- Digital Engineering creates a top-notch shopping experience through target.com and flagship Android and iOS apps, making it personalized and rewarding, continuously innovating and experimenting to offer unique experiences that provide inspirations and easy discoverability of the right product at the right time.
- The team aims to develop category-based end-to-end experiences for guests covering discovery, inspiration, purchase, and post-transaction stages.
- Technologically, the team is adopting a new scalable architecture to accelerate the implementation of the digital strategy, driving ambitious digital shopping goals and building new technological foundations to expedite time-to-market strategy.