About us:

As a Fortune 50 company with more than 400,000 team members worldwide, Target is an iconic brand and one of America's leading retailers. At Target, we have a timeless purpose and a proven strategy and that hasn’t happened by accident. Some of the best minds from diverse backgrounds come together at Target to redefine retail in an inclusive learning environment that values people and delivers world-class outcomes. That winning formula is especially apparent in Bengaluru, where Target in India operates as a fully integrated part of Target’s global team and has more than 4,000 team members supporting the company’s global strategy and operations.

Joining Target means promoting a culture of mutual care and respect and striving to make the most meaningful and positive impact. Becoming a Target team member means joining a community that values diverse backgrounds. We believe your unique perspective is important, and you'll build relationships by being authentic and respectful. At Target, inclusion is part of the core value. We aim to create equitable experiences for all, regardless of their dimensions of difference. As an equal opportunity employer, Target provides diverse opportunities for everyone to grow and win.

Tech Overview:

Every time a guest enters a Target store or browses Target.com, they experience the impact of Target’s investments in technology and innovation. We’re the technologists behind one of the most loved retail brands, delivering joy to millions of our guests, team members, and communities.

Join our global in-house technology team of more than 4,000 of engineers, data scientists, architects, coaches and product managers striving to make Target the most convenient, safe and joyful place to shop. We use agile practices and leverage open-source software to adapt and build best-in-class technology for our team members and guests—and we do so with a focus on diversity and inclusion, experimentation and continuous learning.

Pyramid Overview:

Target.com and Mobile translates the in-store experience our guests love to the digital environment. Our Mobile Engineers develop native apps like Cartwheel and Target’s flagship app, which are high-impact and high-visibility assets that are game-changers for literally millions of guests. Here, you’ll get to explore emerging retail and mobile technologies, playing a key role in revolutionary product launches with tech giants like Apple and Google. You’ll be a visionary for the future of Target’s app ecosystem. You’ll have the advantage of Target’s unmatched brand recognition and special marketplace foothold—making us the partner of choice for innovative technologies like indoor mapping, iBeacons and Apple Pay. You’ll help Target evolve by using the latest open source tools and technologies and staying true to strong agile practices. You’ll lend your passion for engineering technologies that fix problems and meet needs guests didn’t even know they had. You’ll work on autonomous teams and incorporate the newest technical practices. You’ll have the chance to perform by writing rock-solid code that stands up to our massive scale. Plus, and perhaps best of all, you’ll have the right balance of self-rule and accountability for how technical products perform.

Position Overview: 

This role is primarily in the Digital Engineering team of Target Tech. Digital Engineering team is the team that builds the guest facing (customer facing) Target.com website and flagship apps on Android and iOS. Our mission is to build best-in-class shopping experience for our guests through digital platforms that is personalized and rewarding. We constantly innovate and experiment unique experiences for our guests to help them find the right product at the right time using the right fulfillment method which is most convenient for our guest.

As a Lead Technical Program Manager, you serve as the technical anchor in for major initiatives in the organisation.

• You provide the program management function in a large product-based organization. 

• You create, own and are responsible for the strategic plan to deliver large organizational capabilities spanning many products. 

• You develop keen understanding of the solution designs to deliver new business capabilities and can distil the technical scope for each product team.

• You align product roadmaps and priorities to ensure timely delivery of the program goals. 

• You provide program leadership, anticipate bottlenecks, mitigate risks and quantify the impact of making trade-offs. 

• You create mechanisms for cross functional collaboration to ensure product teams have visibility to their dependencies and can react quickly to emergent constraints or business needs. 

• You serve as a point of technical escalation and provide the necessary reactions.  

• You monitor, track and report the health of the program to the stakeholders. 

• You provide regular updates on the programs to leadership and serve as a single point of contact for any emergent changes to the scope and size of the program.

• You decompose large organizational goals to individual product’s scope, partner with product partners to align product priorities with program timelines, create and maintain delivery plans by aligning product schedules and dependencies, manage engineering dependencies across products and track engineering deliverables, identify and track program risks and develop mitigation plans, develop and own communication plans to effectively and proactively communicate program status, issues, and risks to stakeholders, manage changes in scope and size of the program, manage technical escalations, facilitate cross functional design sessions and technical analysis.

• 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 Engineering, Computer Science or related technical field or equivalent experience

• 5+ years’ experience in software engineering industry or technical program management

• 2+ years’ experience in working in Agile Methodologies

• Hands-on project management skills

• Experience in delivering large projects with cross functional deliverables

• Good understanding of microservices-based architectures

Know More About Us Here:

Life at Target- https://india.target.com/

Benefits- https://india.target.com/life-at-target/workplace/benefits

Culture- https://india.target.com/life-at-target/diversity-and-inclusion