Sr Engineering Manager – Finance Technology
About The Position
The Sr. Engineering Manager (SEM) leads a team of engineers responsible for building, integrating, supporting, and operating Finance Technology solutions that enable critical financial capabilities and business processes. This includes ownership of enterprise platform capabilities, custom-built extensions, reusable services, integrations, and supporting packages or vendor-enabled solutions that deliver cohesive and scalable end-to-end outcomes. This role operates in close partnership with other engineering leaders across the Finance Technology domain, collectively delivering integrated solutions at enterprise scale. This role operates within a broader, ongoing modernization of Target’s finance platforms, data flows, integrations, and ecosystem. The SEM is expected to deliver scalable, secure, reliable, and well-integrated solutions aligned with evolving architectural direction. Success in this role requires balancing platform adoption, packaged capabilities, and targeted custom engineering; exercising strong technical judgment on where to extend, configure, integrate, support, or build; and delivering reliably in a complex, highly integrated environment. The SEM partners closely with Product, Finance stakeholders, Architecture, Security, Data, Operations, and vendor teams, and represents the team in cross-functional planning and architecture discussions. This role offers a unique opportunity to help shape how finance technology evolves at enterprise scale while building durable engineering practices that can adapt as business needs and organizational alignment continue to evolve. Core responsibilities are described within this job description. Job duties may change at any time due to business needs.
Requirements
- Four-year degree or equivalent experience
- 10+ years of experience in software development and team management
- Expertise in Java programming languages and modern service-based architecture patterns
- Experience building, integrating, supporting, or modernizing enterprise-scale platforms, services, data flows, or business-critical technology ecosystems
- Experience working with packaged platforms, vendor-supported capabilities, custom extensions, integrations, APIs, and internally developed services
- Experience evaluating new technologies and participating in decision-making, considering viability within Target’s technical environment, compliance requirements, approved tech status, maintainability, security, reliability, operational support, and cost of ownership
- Proven ability to deliver high-performance, scalable, repeatable, resilient, and secure solutions with broad impact
- Experience leading functional design and architecture discussions, with an understanding of process flows, data flows, controls, integrations, support models, and system diagrams to support design decisions
- Ability to operate effectively in ambiguity, shape direction as priorities evolve, and create clarity for engineering teams and cross-functional partners
- Provides technical oversight and coaching to others in resolving technical issues
- Strong partnership skills with Product, Finance, Data, Architecture, Security, Operations, engineering peers, and vendor teams
Responsibilities
- Leads a team of engineers responsible for building, integrating, supporting, and operating Finance Technology solutions.
- Owns enterprise platform capabilities, custom-built extensions, reusable services, integrations, and supporting packages or vendor-enabled solutions.
- Delivers scalable, secure, reliable, and well-integrated solutions aligned with evolving architectural direction.
- Balances platform adoption, packaged capabilities, and targeted custom engineering.
- Exercises strong technical judgment on where to extend, configure, integrate, support, or build.
- Partners closely with Product, Finance stakeholders, Architecture, Security, Data, Operations, and vendor teams.
- Represents the team in cross-functional planning and architecture discussions.
- Helps shape how finance technology evolves at enterprise scale.
- Builds durable engineering practices that can adapt as business needs and organizational alignment continue to evolve.
Benefits
- Comprehensive health benefits and programs (medical, vision, dental, life insurance)
- 401(k)
- Employee discount
- Short term disability
- Long term disability
- Paid sick leave
- Paid national holidays
- Paid vacation
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
Education Level
Associate degree
