Sr Engineering Manager - Digital

About Target: As a Fortune 50 company with more than 400,000 team members worldwide, Target is an iconic brand and one of America's leading retailers. Joining Target means promoting a culture of mutual care and respect and striving to make the most meaningful and positive impact. Becoming a Target team member means joining a community that values different voices and lifts each other up. Here, we believe your unique perspective is important, and you'll build relationships by being authentic and respectful

About Target in India: At Target, we have a timeless purpose and a proven strategy. And that hasn’t happened by accident. Some of the best minds from different backgrounds come together at Target to redefine retail in an inclusive learning environment that values people and delivers world-class outcomes. That winning formula is especially apparent in Bengaluru, where Target in India operates as a fully integrated part of Target’s global team and has more than 4,000 team members supporting the company’s global strategy and operations.

About Target Tech: Every time a guest enters a Target store or browses Target.com, they experience the impact of Target’s investments in technology and innovation. We’re the technologists behind one of the most loved retail brands, delivering joy to millions of our guests, team members, and communities.

About Digital Engineering: This role is within the Digital Engineering team at Target Tech. We create a top-notch shopping experience for our guests through the target.com website and the flagship Android and iOS apps, making it personalized and rewarding. We continuously innovate and experiment to offer unique experiences that provides inspirations and easy discoverability of the right product at the right time for our guests and help fulfil the order using the convenient fulfilment method.
In this journey, we aim to develop category-based end-to-end experiences for guests, covering discovery, inspiration, purchase, and post-transaction stages. Technologically, we are adopting a new scalable architecture to accelerate the implementation of our digital strategy. This means we are not only driving our ambitious digital shopping goals but also building new technological foundations to expedite our entire time-to-market strategy.

About SEM: The Sr. Engineering Manager (SEM) is responsible for leading a high performing team of frontend engineers who will be focussing on building the Digital experiences for authentication, profile management, discovery, privacy etc., on target.com website and flagship Android and iOS apps. This role is accountable for team’s high quality and high performant code, technical roadmap and decisions, upholding engineering and security best practices, stakeholder management and strong partnership with product and UX leaders. The role also demands building strong partnership with the global engineering and product teams and working with many other experience teams in order to deliver the end to end funnel experience for our guests. Success in this role will require strong and innovative approaches to problem solving, great technical leadership, excellent communication (written and verbal, formal and informal), flexibility, accountability and a self-motivated working style with attention to detail.

Core responsibilities of this job:
As a Sr. Engineering Manager, you’ll take the lead as you

• Drive product development and operations with lead engineers and drive technical decision making, adhering to Target platform architecture and other enterprise decisions.

• You’ll have a strong focus on team management and development, equal focus will be on writing production code and hands on active development of the capabilities and solutions.

• Assist in Target-internal technical platform usage 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 and UX teams and influence 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 front end engineers and provide leadership, coaching, motivation and recommend staffing levels, operating procedures, tools and systems for the team. Provide career development and performance management to a team of engineers.

About you:

• 4-year degree or equivalent experience

• 7+ years of experience in software development and team management

• 1-3 years of managing teams with a strong track record of delivery high performing and scalable Mobile applications and websites.

• Possesses a strong understanding of systems programming and control languages as required by your domain. Has demonstrated success in solving complex technical problems in more than one technical or functional areas

• Expertise in 2 or more of the programming languages

• Understands business fundamentals and how technologies can support business goals along with how to translate business vision into a technical strategy while understanding the financial implications

• Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present complex technical information in a clear and concise manner to variety of audience.

• Team-orientated, passionate about developing others’ skills and capabilities

• Successful track record of working in large enterprise technology ecosystems leading complex technology teams

• Deep understanding of agile development processes and methodology including continuous integration and delivery, with a mindset of building incrementally and delivering business value quickly

• Demonstrates strong proficiency in AI-driven software development and modern engineering workflows

• Drives AI adoption to improve engineering and product outcomes, establishing scalable, secure, and compliant integrations with strong governance and validation.