Principal Engineer - US

About this Team:

This role will have the opportunity to support one of the following teams...

Merchandise planning capability is one which differentiates Target as retailer from the rest of the pack. The Merchandise Planning Technology Platform serves the core planning functions within Target’s Merchandising Organization. This platform enables our merchants to deliver timely, financially & operationally viable and most relevant guest assortments across all of our sales channels (stores, digital, social), and is a critical strategic capability for delivering profitable sales growth for Target. Our systems are built with cutting edge technologies and scaled to serve the enterprise.

Pricing and Promotions are core merchandising capabilities under Commercial Tech. As a Principal Engineer you are a thought leader and trusted partner to product and technology teams defining solutions to highly complex engineering problems. You set the strategy for software development and/or infrastructure engineering. You set the direction for how software engineering efforts will be designed, developed, and operationalized across price and promo teams and drive adoption across the portfolio. You lead and approve software engineering efforts to meet functional and non-functional requirements. You define architecture strategies to deliver on the future evolution of business and technology capabilities and drive alignment with product and technology partners. You define and drive delivery of the subsequent architectural solutions that would evolve pricing and promotions products. You are a thought leader and mentor for internal and external technical talent and actively contribute to the external technical community. Use your skills, experience and talents to be a part of groundbreaking thinking and visionary goals.

Use your skills, experience and talents to be a part of groundbreaking thinking and visionary goals. As a Principal Engineer, you’ll take the lead as you…

• Understand Target's business and technical environments and assist teams in resolving complex business challenges via technical solutions

• Assess viability/applicability/cost implication through POCs and prototypes.

• Collaborate with technical staff and Enterprise Architecture teams in setting technical direction across platform

• Drive architectural decisions to bring about alignment across business, product and tech teams on the architectural choices and trade-offs and create architecture decision records

• Drive technology lifecycle management and communication of standards/decisions to the engineering team.

• Lead designing and building services with deep focus on non-functional requirement including scalability, availability, performance, etc.

• Be a strong advocate of extreme agile and DevOps practices with engineers.

• Work with engineering leaders to build a high performing engineering team and provide technical leadership, coaching, motivation and participate in the selection of technical talent.

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. Continuing education to maintain thorough knowledge of technical domains along with staying current in latest technologies

• 12+ years of experience in technology development or services

• 4+ years of experience in strategic planning and setting technical direction

• 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 the financial implications

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

• Must be highly efficient in the acquisition of knowledge regarding technology concepts and business acumen.

• Strong understating of application security, observability and scalability.

• Strong team player who understands concepts of teamwork who can also work independently.

• 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, SQL / NoSQL (PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Cassandra, graph structure, etc.), Graph DB, Python, Kubernetes containers, Cloud tech, Graph DB, Springboot, Micronaut, Kotlin, RocksDB, Kafka, ReactJS etc.

This position will operate as a Hybrid/Flex for Your Day work arrangement based on Target’s needs. A Hybrid/Flex for Your Day work arrangement means the team member’s core role will need to be performed both onsite at the Target HQ MN location the role is assigned to and virtually, depending upon what your role, team and tasks require for that day. Work duties cannot be performed outside of the country of the primary work location, unless otherwise prescribed by Target. Click here if you are curious to learn more about Minnesota.