Working at Target means helping all families discover the joy of everyday life. We bring that vision to life through our values and culture.
We are looking for an L5 Senior Engineer with 4+ years of hands-on Workforce Management (WFM) engineering experience, with UKG Pro Workforce Management. This role focuses on designing, integrating, and supporting enterprise workforce management solutions while driving platform reliability, scalability, and automation.
Responsibilities- Design, configure, and enhance UKG Pro WFM capabilities including timekeeping, scheduling, forecasting, attendance, and advanced Scheduling
- Design, develop, and support integrations between UKG Pro WFM and enterprise systems using APIs, event-driven architectures, and Boomi Integrations.
- Troubleshoot production issues, implement enhancements, upgrades, and defect fixes, ensuring reliable platform operations through monitoring, logging, and observability.
- Build scalable, secure, and maintainable engineering solutions using modern software engineering and cloud-native principles.
- Develop and execute test cases covering functional, integration, performance, and failure scenarios.
- Create technical documentation and participate in architecture reviews, incident management, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver enterprise workforce management solutions.
- Leverage Generative AI, Agentic AI, and automation to improve engineering productivity and workforce management processes.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field.
- 4+ years of software engineering experience with enterprise Workforce Management platforms, UKG Pro WFM.
- Strong experience with UKG Pro WFM modules including timekeeping, scheduling, forecasting, attendance, and advanced scheduling. Accruals
- Experience designing and supporting enterprise integrations using REST APIs, JSON, authentication, messaging, and event-driven architectures.
- Strong troubleshooting skills with production support, monitoring, logging, and diagnostics.
- Ability to create testable, modular, understandable, and maintainable configurations, scripts, APIs, or supporting technical components.
- Understanding of cloud-native architectures, distributed systems, secure software development, and enterprise architecture principles.
- Strong communication, documentation, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
- Experience implementing or supporting enterprise-scale UKG Pro Workforce Management.
- Experience building Boomi Integration and Certified in Boomi Integrations
- Exposure to Java, Node.js, Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, or front-end technologies is a plus.
- Knowledge of microservices, messaging platforms, CI/CD, cloud platforms,
- Experience applying Generative AI or intelligent automation in enterprise solutions.
- Familiarity with Agile delivery, incident management, observability, and OWASP secure development practices.
- Deliver high-quality, scalable engineering solutions with strong ownership.
- Solve production issues, improve platform reliability, and drive continuous improvement.
- Collaborate effectively across teams while mentoring others and promoting engineering best practices.
Skills Required
- 4 year degree or equivalent experience
- 5+ years of software development experience
- Strong domain-specific knowledge of Target's technology capabilities and competitors
- Working knowledge of package-specific configuration and deployment and ability to build custom solutions
- Proficiency in core development platforms and multiple programming languages, including distributed programming
- Ability to design testing methods and resolve routine and non-routine technical issues
- Experience delivering high-performance, scalable, repeatable, and secure systems (low latency, high throughput)
- Experience leading design, code review, testing, debugging, and architecture discussions
- Ability to influence and apply data standards, policies, and procedures
- Familiarity with Agile methodologies and ability to communicate Agile concepts
- Willingness to stay current with new and evolving technologies via training and self-directed learning
Target Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Target and has not been reviewed or approved by Target.
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Healthcare Strength — Health benefits are accessible to hourly team members at relatively low hour thresholds and include no‑cost, 24/7 virtual medical care and expanded mental‑health support. This breadth is positioned as a relative strength compared to typical retail offerings.
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Retirement Support — Retirement programs include a dollar‑for‑dollar 401(k) match with immediate vesting and options like Roth 401(k) and stock purchase. These features strengthen long‑term savings for a wide range of roles.
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Parental & Family Support — Family support includes paid family leave, backup care, and reimbursements for adoption and surrogacy. These resources complement paid time off and holidays for eligible team members.
Target Insights
What We Do
Target is an American retailing company providing access to a wide selection of products such as furniture, electronics, toys, and more. Target is one of the world’s most recognized brands and one of America’s leading retailers. We make Target our guests’ preferred shopping destination by offering outstanding value, inspiration, innovation and an exceptional guest experience that no other retailer can deliver. Target is committed to responsible corporate citizenship, ethical business practices, environmental stewardship and generous community support. Since 1946, we have given 5 percent of our profits back to our communities. Our goal is to work as one team to fulfill our unique brand promise to our guests, wherever and whenever they choose to shop.
