About us:

Target is an iconic brand, a Fortune 50 company and one of America’s leading retailers.

Target as a tech company? Absolutely. We’re the behind-the-scenes powerhouse that fuels Target’s passion and commitment to cutting-edge innovation. We anchor every facet of one of the world’s best-loved retailers with a strong technology framework that relies on the latest tools and technologies—and the brightest people—to deliver incredible value to guests online and in stores. Target Tech is on a mission to offer the systems, tools and support that guests and team members need and deserve. Our high-performing teams balance independence with collaboration, and we pride ourselves on being versatile, agile and creative. We drive industry-leading technologies in support of every angle of the business, and help ensure that Target operates smoothly, securely, and reliably from the inside out.

Join the Agile Enablement Tools Team where you will help the community of Agile & Product teams deliver work through supporting their work backlog, idea & knowledge management, content, and chat tools. You will play a key role in helping teams deliver work across Target.

Use your skills, experience, and talents to be a part of this impactful team.  As an Engineer, you'll:

• Apply infrastructure as code practices by leveraging Github & Ansible to automate configuration management, deployment, and orchestration

• Build capabilities and integrations to enable self-service for our customers

• Provide technical leadership in resolving incidents

• Oversee preventative maintenance, troubleshooting and quickly resolve problems to ensure infrastructure and application stability

• Enable customers by building Slack bots and integrations between tools

• Build infrastructure and deploy new vendor packages

What we provide you:

• A focus on learning and dedicated time to learn

• A collaborative team focused on pair programming, mobbing, and inclusivity

• The ability to work on enterprise-wide tools and capabilities

• A voice in planning, decision making, debugging, and execution

Preferred Experience:

• ChatOps (Slack & bot development), product and backlog management tools (Jira, Confluence) and knowledge management tools (Stack Overflow); Or experience supporting vendor package and SAAS solutions

• Infrastructure as Code capabilities (Packer, Ansible)

• CI/CD (GitHub, Drone/CircleCI, Docker/Kubernetes)

• Databases (Postgres, MongoDB)

• Programming languages (Python, Golang)

 Requirements:

• 4 year degree or equivalent experience

• 1+ years of software development experience

• Demonstrates familiarity with current and emerging technologies in own scope of responsibility, and develops ability to apply these technologies

• Understands concepts of package solutions and package specific programming language with knowledge of development objects

• Demonstrates and continuously builds upon domain-specific knowledge

• Demonstrates proficiency in at least one computer language

• Understands the concepts of distributed programming and applies it to their domain

• Possesses working knowledge of transaction codes/master data used within specific domain and participates in building custom solutions in the package

• Maintains technical knowledge within areas of expertise

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