Sr Engineering Manager – Operational Technology Security

Senior Engineering Manager Operational Technology (OT) Security

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Target is one of the world's most recognized brands and one of America's leading retailers. But behind the brand our guests love, is a culture of continual innovation and right now, we are up to big things! Target's security team is a place where innovation happens daily. Interested in a culture that combines ongoing learning, engineering excellence, and stellar outcomes? We are too – that's why we work here.

Join our team to improve Target's security and move the business forward.

As a Senior Engineering Manager on the Operational Technology (OT) Security team, you'll lead a team of Lead Engineers responsible for standing up, operating, integrating, automating, and scaling OT security capabilities across Target's OT infrastructure. Your team will own the platforms and pipelines that give Target visibility into OT assets, prioritize exposure, harden endpoints and configurations, and route the right findings to the right operational teams for safe, prioritized remediation.

You'll partner with Infrastructure, Supply Chain, Architecture, and Network Security teams on OT network segmentation, backup and restore, and identity and access initiatives.

Beyond deep technical expertise, you have a strong bias for action and a builder's mindset. You are comfortable translating ISA/IEC 62443-aligned control requirements into implementable engineering patterns; owning the day-to-day operation and continuous improvement of the platforms that surface OT risk; coordinating exceptions, compensating controls, and change windows with partners; and providing white-glove engineering support for the highest-risk findings. You have the engineering credibility to lead a team that builds and operates this platform, and the communication and partnership skills to make the controls land safely in environments where availability, safety, and continuity of product movement matter as much as security.

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

About you:

• 4-year degree OR equivalent work experience

• 8+ years of hands-on experience in technology, with deep experience in OT and security engineering and the adjacent disciplines that make OT security work — asset visibility, vulnerability and exposure management, endpoint security, data engineering/automation, and integration with enterprise remediation and governance workflows

• 3+ years managing engineering teams with a strong track record of delivery in a platform, infrastructure, software development, or security engineering in an OT context

• Experience hiring, growing, and retaining senior engineering talent, and building or evolving team operating models

• You lead engineers, not just programs: you've owned the full stack of engineering management — hiring, performance, career growth, on-call culture, code review standards, postmortems, and operational excellence

• Demonstrated track record of running production platforms with clear service objectives, on-call coverage, change management, and continuous-improvement loops in environments where availability, safety, and continuity of operations are non-negotiable

• Experience driving multi-quarter roadmaps end-to-end — from problem framing through rollout, adoption, and steady-state operation — and delivering predictably against them

• Comfortable making and defending pragmatic build-vs-buy decisions, owning vendor relationships and tool life cycles, and knowing when to invest in custom engineering vs. lean on a platform

• Demonstrated experience leading teams that operate OT and/or ICS security platforms at scale — such as Claroty XDome, Nozomi, Dragos, Armis, Tenable OT, or comparable OT asset visibility and exposure platforms

• Hands-on familiarity with ISA/IEC 62443 (and adjacent frameworks such as NIST CSF, NIST SP 800-82) — enough to align the team's controls to them, without being the policy author

• Experience…