Sr. Engineering Manager - Data Sciences Experimentation Platform
- Employer
- Target
- Location
- Minneapolis, Minnesota
- Start date
- May 25, 2021
- Closing date
- Jun 3, 2021
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- Category
- Retail / Wholesale
- Employment Status
- Full Time
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Description:
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.
Target's Data Sciences Experimentation Platform, named Sapphire, is part of Target's Data Sciences Platform Products portfolio. Sapphire is a custom-built system that enables product teams across Target's 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 you're 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, you'll take the lead as you...
Requirements:
Desired Qualifications:
Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
Target will provide reasonable accommodations (such as a qualified sign language interpreter or other personal assistance) with the application process upon your request as required to comply with applicable laws. If you have a disability and require assistance in this application process, please visit your nearest Target store or Distribution Center or reach out to Guest Services at 1-800-440-0680 for additional information.
Qualifications:
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.
Target's Data Sciences Experimentation Platform, named Sapphire, is part of Target's Data Sciences Platform Products portfolio. Sapphire is a custom-built system that enables product teams across Target's 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 you're 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, you'll 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.)
Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
Target will provide reasonable accommodations (such as a qualified sign language interpreter or other personal assistance) with the application process upon your request as required to comply with applicable laws. If you have a disability and require assistance in this application process, please visit your nearest Target store or Distribution Center or reach out to Guest Services at 1-800-440-0680 for additional information.
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