Description: As a Sr. Engineering Manager, you will lead an engineering team in an agile environment building creative and innovative Marketing 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.

This position is part of Digital Marketing specifically accountable for building and supporting solutions for Target's promotional marketing strategies. You will be able to put your skills, experience and passion to build a platform that will have direct impact on millions of Target Guests and Vendor partners and significant revenue for driver for Target. You will get an opportunity to lead engineering solutions for delivering personalized marketing media to guests across multiple channels including web, emails, and other social channels. The solutions used include mainstream and open source tech stack to build highly scalable Big Data and micro services that serve digital marketing. This position involves managing a team of engineers (Junior to Lead levels) in both Minneapolis and Bangalore locations while partnering with key engineering and product leaders across Target.

Use your skills, experience and talents to be a part of groundbreaking thinking and visionary goals. As a Sr. Engineering manager, you'll take the lead as you...

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

Requirements:
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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 Big Data and server-side applications
• 3+ years of managing software development teams with a strong track record of project delivery for large, cross-functional projects
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Experience operating medium to large scale systems
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Experience with test-driven development and software test automation
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Strong sense of ownership
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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:
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BS degree in computer science or equivalent
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Strong experience in the AdTech/MarTech domain
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Machine Learning experience
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Experience in Java, Scala/Spark, Hadoop, Hive, MapReduce and Oozie with proficiency in Python or other scripting language
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Contribute back to the Open Source community is desirable
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Extensive experience working in an agile environment (i.e. user stories, iterative development, etc.)
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