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Director of Technology - Target+ Marketplace

Employer
Target
Location
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Start date
Apr 25, 2019
Closing date
May 1, 2019

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Category
Business, Other
Employment Status
Full Time
Description:

*Experience with eCommerce marketplaces is required for this role*

Target+ is a new initiative designed to expand the assortment on Target.com with merchandise from third-party sellers. But unlike other marketplaces, Target+ takes on a selective, curated approach in line with Target's brand and quality. Target+ is an important long-term growth platform for Target. Guest Experience Management is a set of products and services that drive content and taxonomy on Target.com. 

As the Director for Digital Guest Experience Management & Target+, you will partner with the digital business and product teams, to build and lead a team that will bring to life curated marketplace capabilities for Target.com. You will also be responsible for the content and taxonomy systems for target.com. You will be responsible for making technology decisions and delivering solutions in a distributed agile environment. While you will be based in Minneapolis, you could provide work direction to team members in Bangalore as well. You will drive and nurture innovations on our platform to accelerate feature development while ensuring high quality. 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, experience in seller ecosystems or marketplaces, and a self-motivated working style with attention to detail.

Key Responsibilities:
• Drive best practices and ensure development of high quality solutions/technologies through advocating for and ensuring standards for common assets and frameworks.
• Determine the right technology choices to best deliver business value keeping in mind availability, scalability and reliability of the solution that also generates engineering capacity for Target.com.
• Build and lead a team of high caliber Target.com Sr Engineering Managers and Engineers. 
• Drive resolution of technology roadblocks including code, infrastructure, build and deployment by working with technology infrastructure partners and other product engineering team to meet schedules. 
• Advocate for and ensure standards around technologies, frameworks, design patterns, processes and guiding values of the domain architecture.
• Inspire a strong culture of engineering through meetups, open source contributions and other media.

Required Skills and Background:

• BS degree in computer science or equivalent.

• Deep experience working in an agile environment.

• 9+ years of software engineering experience.

• 5+ years of managing teams with a strong track record of delivery for large and complex platforms.

• Experience in operating large scale systems.

• Experience with test-driven development and software test automation.

• Extensive technical knowledge and experience in highly scalable distributed systems development.

• Experience in building platforms in support of eCommerce marketplaces.

• Good knowledge of open source frameworks and platforms primarily on a JVM based stack.

• 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-oriented, passionate about developing others' skills and capabilities.

• Deep understanding of agile development practices including continuous integration and delivery.

• Strong sense of ownership and problem solving skills.



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