Lead Engineer - Target India
Target · Posted Oct 26
General merchandise, apparel, grocery, and home goods retail services
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About the role
Target in India operates as a fully integrated part of Target’s global team, with more than 4,000 team members supporting the company’s global strategy and operations. The Lead Engineer role provides technical leadership and architectural direction while remaining hands-on in building scalable, resilient, and production-grade systems. The role focuses on technology evaluation, architecture and engineering standards, hands-on delivery, observability and reliability, and data governance and platform optimization.
What you will do
- Evaluate emerging technologies and contribute to architectural decision-making, considering alignment with Target’s technical ecosystem, long-term maintainability, scalability, and total cost of ownership.
- Lead research initiatives and proof-of-concept efforts to validate new tools, frameworks, and platforms before adoption.
- Design and own scalable, secure, high-performance architectures.
- Establish and evolve engineering standards and best practices in complex or ambiguous environments.
- Lead service design, lifecycle management, and overall technical governance of team-owned platforms.
- Ensure code quality, infrastructure standards, and long-term sustainability of services.
- Contribute directly to development efforts, particularly on complex and high-impact components.
- Ensure solutions are production-ready, deployable, resilient, and scalable.
- Drive implementation quality through strong testing, automation, and CI/CD practices.
- Provide technical thought leadership to promote reusable components and consistent architectural patterns.
- Participate in planning and designing services with enterprise-wide impact.
- Guide the team in resolving routine and moderately complex technical challenges, escalating risks when necessary.
- Champion a culture of observability and operational excellence.
- Ensure monitoring, logging, and metrics are embedded into services.
- Leverage operational data to continuously improve system stability, performance, and reliability.
- Align monitoring strategies with organizational observability principles.
- Influence and evolve data standards, policies, and governance practices.
- Configure, optimize, and monitor data management platforms with minimal oversight.
- Identify performance and efficiency improvements across data systems.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- Advanced proficiency in Java, including backend systems and automation workflows
- Strong experience in Microservices Architecture and distributed systems
- Expertise with Spring Boot or Micronaut, including reactive programming models
- Experience with Messaging Systems such as Kafka or RabbitMQ
- Proficiency with Databases, including NoSQL (Cassandra, MongoDB) and SQL (PostgreSQL)
- Experience building and managing CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitLab, or similar)
- Strong background in Unit & Integration Testing (JUnit, Spock, TestContainers)
- Experience with Cloud Platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure)
- Expertise in Containerization & Orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)
- Strong understanding of Monitoring & Observability tools (Grafana, ELK, Prometheus)
- Solid grasp of Event-Driven Architecture patterns in distributed environments
Preferred qualifications
- Proficiency in Python or Kotlin
- Experience with Legacy System Modernization and refactoring initiatives
- Knowledge of Security Best Practices, including OWASP standards and secure coding principles
- Familiarity with Agile methodologies such as Scrum or Kanban
Benefits and support
- Compensation and benefits are detailed in the job posting
About Target
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
Chief Executive Officer
Executive Chair of the Board
Jim Lee
Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Prat Vemana
Executive Vice President and Chief Information and Product Officer
Mark Weinstein
Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing and Guest Experience Officer
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