Sr Engineer- Search

Job Id: R0000385950

About us:

As a Fortune 50 company with more than 400,000 team members worldwide, Target is an iconic brand and one of America's leading retailers.

Joining Target means promoting a culture of mutual care and respect and striving to make the most meaningful and positive impact. Becoming a Target team member means joining a community that values different voices and lifts each other up. Here, we believe your unique perspective is important, and you'll build relationships by being authentic and respectful.

Overview about TII

At Target, we have a timeless purpose and a proven strategy. And that hasn’t happened by accident. Some of the best minds from different backgrounds come together at Target to redefine retail in an inclusive learning environment that values people and delivers world-class outcomes. That winning formula is especially apparent in Bengaluru, where Target in India operates as a fully integrated part of Target’s global team and has more than 4,000 team members supporting the company’s global strategy and operations.

Pyramid overview

A role with Target Data Science & Engineering means the chance to help develop and manage state of the art predictive algorithms that use data at scale to automate and optimize decisions at scale. Whether you join our Statistics, Optimization or Machine Learning teams, you’ll be challenged to harness Target’s impressive data breadth to build the algorithms that power solutions our partners in Marketing, Supply Chain Optimization, Network Security and Personalization rely on.

Position Overview:

As a Senior Engineer on the Search Team, you serve as a specialist in the engineering team that supports the product. You help develop and gain insight in the application architecture. You can distill an abstract architecture into concrete design and influence the implementation. You show expertise in applying the appropriate software engineering patterns to build robust and scalable systems. You are an expert in programming and apply your skills in developing the product. You have the skills to design and implement the architecture on your own, but choose to influence your fellow engineers by proposing software designs, providing feedback on software designs and/or implementation. You leverage data science in solving complex business problems. You make decisions based on data. You show good problem solving skills and can help the team in triaging operational issues. You leverage your expertise in eliminating repeat occurrences.

About You:

• 4-year degree in Quantitative disciplines (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) or equivalent experience
• Experience with Search Engines like SOLR and Elastic Search
• Strong hands-on programming skills in Java, Kotlin, Micronaut, Python,
• Experience on Pyspark, SQL, Hadoop/Hive is added advantage
• Experience on streaming systems like Kakfa. Experience on Kafka Streams is added advantage.
• Experience in MLOps is added advantage
• Experience in Data Engineering is added advantage
• Strong analytical thinking skills with an ability to creatively solve business problems, innovating new approaches where required
• Able to produce reasonable documents/narrative suggesting actionable insights
• Self-driven and results oriented
• Strong team player with ability to collaborate effectively across geographies/time zones

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· Culture- https://india.target.com/life-at-target/belonging