Job Description

About us:

Working at Target means helping all families discover the joy of everyday life. We bring that vision to life through our values and culture. Learn more about Target here.


The Sr. Engineering Manager (SEM) is responsible for managing a team of engineers. This role is accountable for leading a team, developing code, deploying and managing production applications to enable database services to the Enterprise. You will be called upon to be the technical representative for your team during cross-team collaborative efforts and planning. Success in this role will require strong and innovative approaches to problem solving, great technical leadership, excellent communication, flexibility, accountability and a self-motivated working style with attention to detail.

About This Team

We are seeking a Sr Engineering Manager for Database Engineering Team to lead our team in driving operational excellence, reliability and innovation across our enterprise database services. This leader will oversee the current services for our managed database platform and services while guiding the modernization of our data platform journey to meet the evolving needs of our business.


A key focus of this role will be establishing robust observability and monitoring practices to ensure high availability and performance, while also developing self-service capabilities that empower application engineers to work efficiently and independently. The successful candidate will combine deep technical expertise in distributed data platforms with strong leadership skills, building Enterprise platform capabilities that are secure, scalable, and user-centric. They will foster a culture of reliability, continuous improvement and automation -ensuring our database services evolves to support both current Enterprise needs and future innovation.


As a Sr. Engineering Manager, you will take the lead as you:

Drive development and operations with your team and drive technical decision making, adhering to database architecture and other enterprise decisions You'll have a strong focus on team management and development, additionally you have technical expertise in writing production code ( Java or Python) and can be hands on in active design and development of the capabilities and solutions Assist in defining database platform needs to build Target enterprise data platform solutions 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 teams, C&C partners and influence set 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 full stack engineers and provide leadership, coaching, motivation as well as operating procedures, tools and systems for the team Provide career development and performance management to a team of engineers

Core responsibilities of this job are described within this job description. Job duties may change at any time due to business needs.

About You

4-year degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or equivalent industry experience 7 plus years of software engineering experience 3 plus years of experience managing teams with a strong track record of delivery on cross-functional product experience with cloud platforms (GPC preferred) and managing large scale platform products Proven experience managing large-scale distributed platforms (on-premises and cloud) Strong background in cloud platforms with hands-on knowledge of cloud-native data services and the ability to guide hybrid/on-prem to cloud modernization Proficient in building high performing APIs and writing specs Experience with integration, databases ( Postgres or any NoSQL database) and other open source frameworks Strong passion for new and emerging tech, driving innovation through GenAI capabilities 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-orientated, passionate about developing others' skills and capabilities Successful track record of working in large enterprise technology ecosystems * Deep understanding of agile development processes and methodology including continuous integration and delivery, with a mindset of building incrementally and delivering business value quickly