Sr Engineer (Workday)

About Target

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.

Joining Target means promoting a culture of mutual care and respect while striving to make a meaningful and positive impact. Becoming a Target team member means joining a community that values different voices and lifts each other up. Here, we believe your unique perspective is important, and you’ll build relationships by being authentic and respectful.

About Target in India

At Target, we have a timeless purpose and a proven strategy. Some of the best minds from different backgrounds come together at Target to redefine retail in an inclusive learning environment that values people and delivers world-class outcomes. This 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 5,500 team members supporting the company’s global strategy and operations.

About Target Tech

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.

About the Pyramid

Human Resources is a portfolio within Target Tech that powers the full team member lifecycle — from hire to retire. HR Product Engineering designs and delivers modern, scalable technology that supports experiences across Payroll, Benefits, Compensation, Enterprise Staffing, Team Member Experience, and Strategi Workforce Planning. Our teams partner closely with HR business leaders to solve complex challenges through automation, data insights, and user-centric digital solutions that serve 400,000+ team members across stores, supply chain, and headquarters.

Role Overview

As a Senior Engineer, you serve as an expert in the scrum 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.

About the role:

We're looking for highly motivated engineers with Workday experience to join our Human Resources product group within Target Technology Services. Target is one of the largest Workday implementations in the world, and as a part of a scrum team you will prototype, design, build, and support features in Workday. You will also be empowered to leverage state-of-the-art technologies outside of Workday to drive business value and efficiency.

Desired Qualifications:

 Proficiency in Java

 Experience in building highly scalable distributed systems

 Strong problem-solving and thought partnership skills

 Excellent verbal and written communication skills

 Experience working with test-driven development and software test automation

 Experience with Workday Extend

 Extensive experience working in an agile environment

Requirements:

 4 year degree or equivalent experience

 3+ years of experience with the following Workday technologies: Studio, Advanced

Reporting, EIB, Business Process Configuration

 Strong experience with XML and XSLT

 Experience with Web Services and REST APIs