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.
As a Sr. Engineering Manager on the Data Platform team, you will lead a team of engineers responsible for building and operating foundational data platform capabilities that enable trusted, well-governed, and observable data across Target. This role blends people leadership, delivery accountability, and strong technical judgment to ensure the team delivers scalable, reliable platform solutions aligned with Target’s data strategy.
You will partner closely with Principal Engineers, Product Managers, and other engineering leaders to translate platform vision into execution, while fostering a culture of engineering excellence, ownership, and continuous improvement.
What you’ll do
Lead, coach, and develop a team of software engineers, creating an inclusive environment where team members can grow and do their best work.
Own delivery and execution for key data management and governance platform capabilities, ensuring predictable outcomes and high engineering quality.
Partner with Product Management to define roadmaps, priorities, and success metrics that align platform investments with business and regulatory needs.
Collaborate with Principal Engineers to translate architectural vision into actionable plans and well-executed designs.
Drive strong engineering practices across the team, including design reviews, code quality, operational readiness, and incident management.
Balance short-term delivery needs with long-term platform health, scalability, and reliability.
Act as a key cross-team partner, coordinating dependencies and influencing stakeholders across data, engineering, and security organizations.
Continuously improve team processes, delivery velocity, and operational maturity.
What we’re looking for
Experience managing and developing software engineering teams in a platform or infrastructure environment.
Strong technical background with hands-on experience building or supporting large-scale data platforms or distributed systems.
Working knowledge of data management and governance concepts such as metadata, data quality, lineage, and observability.
Proven ability to deliver complex technical initiatives in partnership with product and architecture leadership.
Experience operating in an agile environment and leading teams through ambiguity and change.
Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
Top Skills
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.
