Lead Engineer

Working at Target means playing a crucial role in helping families enjoy the simple pleasures of everyday life. The values and culture at Target bring this vision to life, fostering an environment where employees can thrive and make a difference. As a lead engineer at Target, you will be the technical anchor for the engineering team dedicated to supporting a specific product. Your role involves creating, owning, and maintaining the application architecture that best serves the product in terms of its functional and non-functional requirements. Your responsibilities include identifying and driving architectural changes that can accelerate feature development or enhance service quality. With your deep and broad engineering skills, you have the ability to independently establish an architecture from scratch. However, you choose to leverage your expertise to empower and guide a larger team, acting as a force multiplier to drive innovation and excellence. While the core responsibilities of your role are outlined in this description, it is important to note that job duties may evolve based on business needs. As a Lead Engineer at Target, you will have the opportunity to leverage your skills, experience, and talents to contribute to groundbreaking initiatives and visionary goals. Your key responsibilities will include: - Applying and staying updated on current and emerging technologies within your specialized domain - Evaluating new technologies and participating in decision-making processes considering factors such as compatibility with Target's technical environment, maintainability, and cost-effectiveness - Leading research and proof-of-concept activities for new technologies - Setting strategies for testing and debugging at the platform or enterprise level - Establishing and improving standards and best practices to ensure high-performance, scalable, repeatable, and secure deliverables - Leading the design, lifecycle management, and total cost of ownership of services - Providing thought leadership to promote re-use and develop consistent, scalable patterns - Participating in planning services with enterprise impact - Developing plans and schedules, estimating resource requirements, and defining milestones and deliverables - Monitoring workflow and risks, playing a key role in mitigating risks and overcoming obstacles - Leading and participating in complex construction, automation, and implementation activities - Establishing new standards and best practices for monitoring, testing, automating, and maintaining IT components or systems - Serving as an expert resource in disaster recovery and planning Additionally, you should possess the following qualifications: - A 4-year degree or equivalent experience - 7+ years of software development experience with at least one full cycle implementation - Strong domain-specific knowledge of Target's technology capabilities and key competitors" products - Proficiency in multiple computer languages and frameworks - Experience in designing, developing, and approving end-to-end functionality of products, platforms, or infrastructure - Excellent communication and coordination skills with project teams, partners, and stakeholders - Expertise in analyzing and optimizing systems capacity, performance, and operational health - Ability to develop solutions for data lifecycle management - Continuous learning and staying updated on new technologies through formal training and self-directed education - Experience in building highly scalable distributed systems Your role as a Lead Engineer at Target is instrumental in driving innovation, technical excellence, and successful product delivery. Join us in shaping the future of technology and making a positive impact on the lives of our customers.,