Sr Engineering Manager - Data Platforms (Hadoop, GCP Modernization)

The pay range is $128,000.00 - $231,000.00

Pay is based on several factors which vary based on position. These include labor markets and in some instances may include education, work experience and certifications. In addition to your pay, Target cares about and invests in you as a team member, so that you can take care of yourself and your family. Target offers eligible team members and their dependents comprehensive health benefits and programs, which may include medical, vision, dental, life insurance and more, to help you and your family take care of your whole selves. Other benefits for eligible team members include 401(k), employee discount, short term disability, long term disability, paid sick leave, paid national holidays, and paid vacation. Find competitive benefits from financial and education to well-being and beyond at https://corporate.target.com/careers/benefits.

JOIN TARGET AS A SR ENGINEERING MANAGER – DATA PLATFORMS (HADOOP/GCP)

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. 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 (written and verbal, formal and informal), flexibility, accountability and a self-motivated working style with attention to detail.

About This Team:

We are seeking a Sr Engineering Manager for our Enterprise Data Platform team to lead our team in driving operational excellence, reliability and innovation across our enterprise-scale data ecosystem. This leader will oversee the current services for our on-premises Hadoop platform 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 data engineers, analysts and data scientists to work efficiently and independently. The successful candidate will combine deep technical expertise in distributed data platforms with strong leadership skills, building platform capabilities that are secure, scalable, and user-centric. They will foster a culture of reliability, continuous improvement and automation -ensuring our platform evolves to support both current operations and future innovation.

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

• Drive development and operations with your team 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, additionally you have technical expertise in writing production code and can be hands on in active design and development of the capabilities and solutions
• Assist in defining data 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 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 recommend staffing levels, 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, Applied Mathematics, Physics or equivalent industry experience
• 7 plus years of software engineering (big data) 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 data platform products
• Proven experience managing large-scale distributed data platforms, ideally including Hadoop, Spark, or comparable ecosystems (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, data handling tech 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

This position will operate as a Hybrid/Flex for Your Day work arrangement based on Target’s needs. A Hybrid/Flex for Your Day work arrangement means the team member’s core role will need to be performed both onsite at the Target HQ MN location the role is assigned to and virtually, depending upon what your role, team and tasks require for that day. Work duties cannot be performed outside of the country of the primary work location, unless otherwise prescribed by Target. Click here if you are curious to learn more about Minnesota.

Benefits Eligibility

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Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)

In compliance with state and federal laws, Target will make reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities. If a reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, please reach out to candidate.accommodations@HRHelp.Target.com. Non-accommodation-related requests, such as application follow-ups or technical issues, will not be addressed through this channel.  

Application deadline is : 10/23/2025