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Lead Engineer

Target · Posted Nov 4

General merchandise, apparel, grocery, and home goods retail services

Bengaluru, IndiaFull-timeOnsiteLead/Staff7+ years₹35.0L–₹55.0L yearly100+ applicants
RetailE-commerceConsumer GoodsDiscount StoresPublic Company
Full time

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About the role

Target is a retail company whose technology teams support products and services used across the business. This Lead Engineer role is a technical anchor for a product engineering team, owning application architecture and driving architectural changes for feature development and service quality. The engineer leads design, lifecycle management, testing and debugging strategy, scalable distributed systems, and data management solutions.

What you will do

  • 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 secure deliverables.
  • 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.
  • 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.

Skills used in this role

What the employer is looking for

  • 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

Benefits and support

  • Compensation and benefits are detailed in the job posting

About Target

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Target Corporation operates an extensive chain of general merchandise and discount retail department stores across the United States. The company provides a broad assortment of owned and national brand products, including apparel, electronics, beauty items, groceries, and home goods. Through its physical stores and digital platforms, Target focuses on delivering style, design, and value to help consumers discover the joy of everyday life.

Industry
Retail
Company size
415000+ employees
Founded
1902
Location
Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Funding stage
Public Company

Leadership

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Michael Fiddelke

Chief Executive Officer

BC
Brian C. Cornell

Executive Chair of the Board

JL

Jim Lee

Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

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Prat Vemana

Executive Vice President and Chief Information and Product Officer

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Mark Weinstein

Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing and Guest Experience Officer

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