Summary
Marcus Manley is a Principal Enterprise Architect based in Minneapolis with over two decades of progressive experience shaping retail and supply chain technology at Target and now Thrivent. He specializes in translating complex business problems into simplified, high-performance architectures, having led initiatives from enterprise item and guest order management to supply chain modernization and machine learning platforms. At Target he was instrumental in defining the company-wide GenAI, agentic, and MLOps strategies, including governance and cross-functional alignment with Privacy and Cyber teams. Marcus blends deep systems and integration knowledge with a pragmatic focus on delivery, measurable business value, and adoption across large organizations. A resourceful collaborator and strategic thinker, he’s known for surfacing reusable platform patterns that reduce cost and accelerate innovation across digital and physical channels.
10 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
St. Cloud State University