Sr. Engineering Manager - Data Sciences Experimentation Platform

About This Opportunity

As a Sr. Engineering Manager, you will lead an engineering team in an agile environment building solutions. The key to the success of this position is having strong & innovative approach to problem solving, great technical leadership, excellent communication (written and verbal, formal and informal), flexibility, and a self-motivated working style with attention to detail.

Targets Data Sciences Experimentation Platform, named Sapphire, is part of Targets Data Sciences Platform Products portfolio. Sapphire is a custom-built system that enables product teams across Targets distributed architecture to achieve calculated forward change through experimentation and measurement.

As a member of the Data Sciences Data Platform Products Team at Target you will be a front-line contributor to the future of data sciences in retail. If youre a software engineer with a passion for leading teams, software architecture, cutting-edge technologies, massive scale, building performant systems, and solving challenging problems, then this career opportunity is for you!

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

• Manage overall software development cycle, driving best practices and ensuring development of high quality code for common assets and framework components.
• Build and lead a team of high caliber software development engineers
• Architect and develop the best technical design and approach
• Manage and execute against project/agile plans and set deadlines
• Drive resolution of technology roadblocks including code, infrastructure, build and deployment
• Manage cross-product technical dependencies and drive resolutions to conflicts
• Advocate for technologies, frameworks, design patterns, processes and guiding values of the domain architecture
• Ensure all code adheres to all development & security standards

Requirements:

• 8+ years of engineering (software development) experience. Experience with at least one full cycle implementation from requirement to production. Experience in building/implementing high performance & scalable server-side applications
• 1+ years of managing software development teams with a strong track record of project delivery for large, cross-functional projects
• Experience operating medium to large scale systems
• Experience with test-driven development and software test automation
• Strong sense of ownership
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present complex technical information in a clear and concise manner to variety of audiences

Desired Qualifications:

• BS degree in computer science or equivalent
• Proficient with an object-oriented language (e.g Java)
• Experience with frameworks like Spring Boot, Micronaut, Ratpack, etc.
• Experience with JavaScript and modern libraries (e.g. React)
• Computer Science foundational knowledge including competencies working with design patterns, data structures, and algorithms
• Hands on experience building scalable REST APIs
• Experience integrating with a message streaming platform (e.g. Kafka)
• Knowledgeable of microservice design patterns
• Experience load testing and performance tuning
• Experience automated testing and proficient with a testing framework (e.g. Spock, JUnit, Jest)
• Experience working on projects orchestrating containerization (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes)
• Exposure to DevOps tools, processes, and culture (e.g. Spinnaker, Drone, Jenkins, Git, etc.)
• Awareness of new and emerging technologies
• Strong verbal and written communication skills demonstrating technical leadership
• Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills
• eCommerce experience with a track record of innovation
• Contribute back to the Open Source community is desirable
• Extensive experience working in an agile environment (i.e. user stories, iterative development, etc.)

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