Principal Engineer - SAP

Job Id: R0000386928

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.

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.

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.

As an SAP Principal Engineer, you will be a domain expert, with a strong understanding of SAP, ideally within finance. You will collaborate with Principal Engineers, Finance Tech leaders, and Enterprise Architecture teams to establish SAP-specific development standards, monitoring mechanisms, and best practices that align with broader architectural strategies.

Key Responsibilities:

• Define and drive SAP-specific development methodologies in alignment with agile and iterative processes.
• Optimize and ensure stable utilization of SAP investments in collaboration with Finance Tech leaders.
• Manage integration and touchpoints between SAP and non-SAP-supported capabilities.
• Act as a key liaison for platform teams, driving performance improvements and issue resolution.
• Work with Principal Engineers and Directors of Engineering to implement continuous deployment solutions tailored to SAP technologies.
• Contribute to SAP reporting strategy, including SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC).
• Provide expertise on key SAP modules and areas such as SAAR demand/support, CAR, receivables/collections/disputes (S4/BRIM/OS), and emerging revenue streams.
• Assess and refine solutions for non-owned margin, vendor income, and wholesale integration with AR and Item Master Data.
• Support performance optimization and future SAP rollouts.
• Evaluate and integrate emerging technologies and trends (e.g., Generative AI) into SAP ecosystems.
• Define and implement testing tools and standards that align with SAP environments.
• This role requires deep SAP expertise, a strategic mindset, and the ability to drive continuous improvement and modernization within SAP landscapes.

About you:

• Four-year degree or equivalent experience
• 16+ years of experience in building software products
• Demonstrates experience building solutions with SAP - functional and technical
• Strong experience in leading the design and delivery of enterprise-scale solutions within a large enterprise where the solutions spanned multiple lines of business
• Experience defining architecture strategy for a new line of business or enterprise technology capability and driving delivery of the resulting solutions
• Leads in the creation and execution of novel solutions to complex, unbounded technical problems
• Strong hold in prioritizing and balance short-term and long-term investments, focusing on high impact, high value work, including tech debt
• Understands and articulates the technical constraints/trade-offs for their proposals/solutions
• Writing and maintaining technical documentation, including system design documents, Integrations documentation, and best practices guidelines.
• Has proficiency in Modern/Open Technologies, Relational Databases, Cloud Computing, along with SAP