Lead Engineer

About us:

Working at Target means helping all families discover the joy of everyday life. We bring that vision to life through our values and culture. Learn more about Target here.
 

About Product – Merchandising is a large pyramid within Target responsible for vendor negotiations, product selection, merchandise display decisions and the advertising of merchandise. Merchandising drives profitable market share growth by fulfilling our "Expect More, Pay Less" brand promise. By delivering differentiated product offerings for guests at great values, Merchandising ensures Target stores carry everything guests want and need.

The Space and Presentation team in the Merchandising Pyramid uses presentation expertise to develop world-class environments for our store team members and guests, and helps simplify the stocking and shopping of our stores through space and presentation management.

As a lead engineer, you serve as the technical anchor for the engineering team that supports a product. You create, own and are responsible for the application architecture that best serves the product in its functional and non-functional needs. You'll bring innovative ideas and help set the strategy for the future of our platform. You love keeping abreast of the latest industry trends and use them to help you innovate. You have leadership qualities, good judgment, and clear communication skills. If you’re excited to work on a fast-moving, tightly knit team and build solutions to unsolved problems, we want to meet you.

Core responsibilities of this job are described within this job description.  Job duties may change at any time due to business needs.

As a Lead Engineer, you’ll take the lead as you…

• Understand Target's business and technical environments and assist teams in resolving complex business challenges via current technical solutions by assessing viability/applicability/cost implication through POCs and prototypes.
• Collaborate with technical staff and Enterprise Architecture teams in setting technical direction across platform and drive technology lifecycle management and communication of standards/decisions to the engineering team.
• Understand data platform and help users build their business usecases in seamless way.
• Lead designing and building the Target platform API with deep focus on non-functional requirements including scalability, availability, performance, etc. while being a strong advocate of extreme agile and DevOps practices across engineers.

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 or equivalent experience
• 7+ years of software development experience with at least one full cycle implementation
• Demonstrates strong domain-specific knowledge regarding Target’s technology capabilities, and key competitors’ products and differentiating features
• Demonstrates broad and deep expertise in multiple computer languages and frameworks (e.g., open source). Designs, develops, and approves end-to-end functionality of a product line, platform, or infrastructure
• Communicates and coordinates with project team, partners, and stakeholders
• Demonstrates expertise in analysis and optimisation of systems capacity, performance, and operational health
• Understands and develops solutions to foster data lifecycle management
• Maintains deep technical knowledge within areas of expertise
• Stays current with new and evolving technologies via formal training and self-directed education
• Experience in building highly scalable distributed systems

Possesses a strong understanding of systems programming and control languages as required by your domain. Has demonstrated success in solving complex technical problems in more than one technical or functional areas

Understands business fundamentals and how technologies can support business goals along with how to translate business vision into a technical strategy while understanding financial implications and bringing in operational efficiency

Has good exposure of how to evaluate 3rd party software packages to align with business needs and also carve out a strategy of Build + Buy possibilities to deliver business requirements with speed, quality and future scalability. Experience in Mainframe decommission strategies and initiatives will be a plus.

Has proven leadership capabilities, the ability to influence others, interpersonal skills, and problem solving skills

Has excellent verbal, written, and presentation communication skills to convey complex technical solutions clearly to an organization

Has excellent planning and organizational skills.

Experience in Java/ J2EE, Kotlin,, SQL/ NoSQL (Postgre, MongoDB, Cassandra, graph structure, etc.), Python, Ruby, Chef, Drone, Kubernetes containers, Cloud tech, etc.