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 lead engineer, you serve as the technical anchor for the engineering team that supports a product. You create, own and are responsible for the application architecture that best serves the product in its functional and non-functional needs. You identify and drive architectural changes to accelerate feature development or improve the quality of service (or both). You have deep and broad engineering skills and are capable of standing up an architecture in its whole on your own, but you choose to influence a wider team by acting as a “force multiplier”. Core responsibilities of this job are described within this job description. Job duties may change at any time due to business needs.  

About this Team:  

Target Owned Brands-Wholesale is an exciting new business venture built upon Target's success with Owned Brand products that focuses on selling our products globally, expanding our reach into new retail markets. To support this expansion, we are building new engineering teams to architect, build, and implement an end-to-end technology platform that will complement Target's existing solution landscape. This is an exciting opportunity for engineers to play a pivotal role in shaping the future of our business and driving the growth of Target Wholesale on a global scale. 

Use your skills, experience and talents to be a part of groundbreaking thinking and visionary goals.  

As a Lead Engineer, you’ll take the lead as you…  

Use your technology acumen to apply and maintain knowledge of current and emerging SAP technologies. Evaluate new technologies and participates in decision-making, accounting for several factors such as viability within Target’s technical environment, maintainability, and cost of ownership. Initiate and execute research and proof-of-concept activities for new technologies and patterns. Lead or set strategy for testing and debugging at the platform or enterprise level. In complex and unstructured situations, serve as an expert resource to create and improve standards and best practices to ensure high-performance, scalable, repeatable, and secure deliverables. Lead the design, lifecycle management, and total cost of ownership of services. Provide the team with thought leadership to promote re-use and develop consistent, scalable patterns. Participate in planning services that have enterprise impact. Provide suggestions for handling routine and moderately complex technical problems, escalating issues when appropriate. Gather information, data, and input from a wide variety of sources; identify additional resources when appropriate, engage with appropriate stakeholders, and conduct in-depth analysis of information. Provide suggestions for handling routine and moderately complex technical problems, escalating issues when appropriate. Develop plans and schedules, estimate resource requirements, and define milestones and deliverables. Monitor workflow and risks; play a leadership role in mitigating risks and removing obstacles. Lead and participate in complex construction, automation, and implementation activities, ensuring successful implementation with architectural and operational requirements met. Establish new standards and best practices to monitor, test, automate, and maintain IT components or systems. Stay current with Target’s technical capabilities, infrastructure, and technical environment. Influence data standards, policies, and procedures. Install, configure, and/or tune data management solutions with minimal guidance. Monitor data management solution(s) and identify optimization opportunities.  

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 or equivalent experience  

• 7+ years of software development experience with at least one full cycle implementation  

• Understands and can deliver enterprise grade solutions using an Object Oriented language, ideally JVM 

• Can author and properly test solutions that leverage a scripting language, ideally Python 

• Communicates and coordinates with project team, partners, and stakeholders  

• Demonstrates expertise in analysis and optimization of systems capacity, performance, and operational health  

• Understands and develops solutions to foster data lifecycle management  

• Maintains deep technical knowledge within areas of expertise  

• Stays current with new and evolving technologies via formal training and self-directed education  

• Experience in building highly scalable distributed systems  

• Experience with the following SAP technologies:  

• Sales and Distribution (SD): Manages the entire sales process, including order management, pricing, shipping, and billing 

• Materials Management (MM): handles procurement related to TPO (third party order), vendor management, and potential inventory control.  

• OData integrations: API level integrations for sales order, purchase orders, wholesale price and item data.  

• Finance (FI): Manages financial accounting, including general ledger, accounts payable, and accounts receivable 

• SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP): Needed for possible future growth onto SAP's Cloud for integrations and analytics  

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.