Sr. Engineer – Owned Brands Costing Management team

Sr. Engineer – Owned Brands Costing Management team

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Pay range: $95,000.00 – $. Target offers a comprehensive benefits package including medical, vision, dental, life insurance, 401(k), employee discount, short and long term disability, paid sick leave, paid national holidays, and paid vacation.

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As a Senior Engineer, you serve as a specialist in the engineering team that supports the product. You help develop and gain insight in the application architecture. You can distill an abstract architecture into concrete design and influence the implementation. You show expertise in applying the appropriate software engineering patterns to build robust and scalable systems. You are an expert in programming and apply your skills in developing the product.

You have the skills to design and implement the architecture on your own, but choose to influence your fellow engineers by proposing software designs, providing feedback on software designs and/or implementation. You show good problem solving skills and can help the team in triaging operational issues. You leverage your expertise in eliminating repeat occurrences.

Use your skills, experience and talents to be a part of groundbreaking thinking and visionary goals. As a Sr. Engineer, you’ll take the lead as you…
Use your technology acumen to apply and maintain knowledge of current and emerging technologies within specialized area(s) of the technology domain. Evaluate new technologies and participate 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.

Lead the design, lifecycle management, and total cost of ownership of services. Lead and conduct code review, design review, testing, and debugging activities at the application level. Lead functional design and architecture discussions with understanding of process flows and system diagrams to enable design decisions. Participate in routine and non-routine construction, automation, and implementation activities, ensuring successful implementation with architectural and operational requirements and best practices met.

Provide technical oversight and coach others to resolve complex and severe technical issues. Lead disaster recovery activities and contribute to disaster recovery planning. Embed data quality protocols throughout data acquisition, processing, storage, and operational use.

Core responsibilities of this job are described within this job description. Job duties may change at any time due to business needs.

The Owned Brands Cost Management team is responsible for a suite of solutions that drive cost decisions and streamline negotiations for all new private-label products  work directly impacts beloved brands like Cat & Jack, Goodfellow & Co., and Threshold. We collaborate closely with product design, sourcing, and vendor partners to create tools that provide accurate cost visibility, optimize negotiations, and support strategic decision-making.

Our team thrives on solving complex challenges, leveraging data-driven insights, and continuously innovating to enhance efficiency in the product development lifecycle. If you're passionate about building impactful solutions that influence millions of products on Target's shelves, we'd love to have you on our team.

• 4 year degree or equivalent experience
• 5+ years of software development experience
• Experience in modern backend technologies such as Java/Kotlin, No
  
  SQL (Postgre
  
  SQL, Mongo
  
  DB, graph structure, etc.)
• Design, build, and maintain scalable backend services using Java or Kotlin, ensuring high performance and reliability in distributed system architectures.
• Develop and optimize data pipelines and event-driven systems leveraging Kafka, Mongo
  
  DB, and Postgre
  
  SQL to handle large-scale data flows…