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Lead Engineer - Backend - Target Plus

Employer
Target
Location
Brooklyn Park, Minnesota
Start date
Nov 8, 2022
Closing date
Nov 20, 2022

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Category
Retail / Wholesale
Employment Status
Full Time
Description:

As a Fortune 50 company with more than 350,000 team members worldwide, Target is an iconic brand and one of America's leading retailers.

Working at Target means the opportunity to help all families discover the joy of everyday life. Caring for our communities is woven into who we are, and we invest in the places we collectively live, work and play. We prioritize relationships, fuel and develop talent by creating growth opportunities, and succeed as one Target team. At our core, our purpose is ingrained in who we are, what we value, and how we work. It's how we care, grow, and win together.

The Target Plus team builds and maintains our amazing platform used by Partners as part of our Digital curated marketplace. Our marketplace Partners need a fast, reliable and automated way to manage their products, fulfill Guest orders and track their sale performance over time - the Target Plus team delivers on this and more by continuously #modernizing and #scaling our operations to meet future demand and growth.

As a lead engineer, you serve as the technical anchor for the engineering team that supports our Partner portal and operational services. You create, own and are responsible for the application
architecture that best serves the product in its functional and non-functional needs. You identify and drive architectural changes to accelerate feature development or improve the quality of service (or both). You have deep and broad engineering skills and are capable of standing up an architecture in its whole on your own, but you choose to influence a wider team by acting as a "force multiplier". Core responsibilities of this job are described within this job description.

Use your technology acumen to apply and maintain knowledge of current and emerging technologies within specialized area(s) of the technology domain. Evaluate new technologies and participates in decision-making, accounting for several factors such as viability within
Target's technical environment, maintainability, and cost of ownership.Initiate and execute research and proof-of-concept activities for new technologies. Lead or set strategy for testing and debugging at the platform or enterprise level. In complex and unstructured situations, serve as an expert resource to create and improve standards and best practices to ensure high-performance, scalable, repeatable, and securedeliverables. Lead the design, lifecycle management, and total cost of ownership of services. Provide the team with thought leadership to promote re-use and develop consistent, scalable patterns. Participate in planning services that have enterprise impact. Provide suggestions for handling routine and moderately complex technical problems, escalating issues when appropriate. Gather information, data, and input from a wide variety of sources; identify additional resources when appropriate, engage with appropriate stakeholders, and conduct in-depth analysis of information. Provide suggestions for handling routine and moderately complex technical problems, escalating issues when appropriate. Develop plans and schedules, estimate resource requirements, and define milestones and deliverables.Monitor
workflow and risks; play a leadership role in mitigating risks and removing obstacles. Lead and participate in complex construction, automation, and implementation activities, ensuring successful implementation with architectural and operational requirements met. Establish new standards and best practices to monitor, test, automate, and maintain IT components or systems. Serve as an expert resource in disaster recovery and disaster recovery planning. Stay current with Target's technical capabilities, infrastructure, and technical environment. Develop fully attributed data models, including logical, physical, and canonical. Influence data standards, policies, and procedures. Install, configure, and/or tune data management solutions with minimal guidance. Monitor data management solution(s) and identify optimization opportunities.

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 optimization 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

Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)

Target will provide reasonable accommodations (such as a qualified sign language interpreter or other personal assistance) with the application process upon your request as required to comply with applicable laws. If you have a disability and require assistance in this application process, please visit your nearest Target store or Distribution Center or reach out to Guest Services at 1-800-440-0680 for additional information.

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