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About us:

Working at Target means helping all families discover the joy of everyday life. We bring that vision to life through our values and culture. Learn more about Target here (https://corporate.target.com/about) .

Target is an iconic brand, a Fortune 50 company and one of America's leading retailers. Target as a tech company?

Absolutely. We're the behind-the-scenes powerhouse that fuels Target's passion and commitment to cutting-edge innovation. We anchor every facet of one of the world's best-loved retailers with a strong technology framework that relies on the latest tools and technologies—and the brightest people—to deliver incredible value to guests online and in stores. Target Technology Services is on a mission to offer the systems, tools and support that guests and team members need and deserve. Our high-performing teams balance independence with collaboration, and we pride ourselves on being versatile, agile and creative. We drive industry-leading technologies in support of every angle of the business, and help ensure that Target operates smoothly, securely, and reliably from the inside out.

The Cloud Platform team is a critical partner within Target Infrastructure and responsible for driving the design, architecture and development of Target Application Platform (Containers, Virtual Machines, etc). We provide the foundation and support needed to develop, deploy and manage your applications within Target. Our goal is to empower the enterprise users to leverage Target's private and public cloud capabilities for building secure, reliable and stable applications in a cost effective way.

As a Principal Engineer in Cloud Platform, you are a thought leader and trusted partner of product and technology teams defining solutions to highly complex business and technology problems. You define architecture strategies to deliver new or evolving business and technology capabilities in Cloud Infrastructure and align partners to those strategies. You solve problems impacting multiple lines of business and technologies often within capabilities critical to Target's success. You define and drive delivery of the subsequent architectural solutions that would evolve the Infrastructure products.

• Apply your abilities to solve large abstract problems, see the big picture, take partners, and drive outcomes as you define strategies to lead Cloud Platform into the future. Your strategic visioning directly contributes to Target's business and technology.

• You clearly and concisely describe problems, opportunities, and vision in ways product and engineering partners and executive leadership understand. You provide clear guidance for teams to implement solutions and other PEs to understand and articulate vision to their partners as needed.

• You are a Compute, Containerization and Virtualization expert and educator who works towards driving innovation in the Cloud Platform space. You communicate with and educate engineers, product owners, and all levels of leadership in language understandable for their role answering questions and providing required clarity where needed. You possess a broad understanding of Target's technology, infrastructure, security and compliance landscapes and apply that as you define solutions and guide teams during implementation. You influence engineers to understand and follow policies, standards, and guidelines established to govern solutions.

• You are a curious, active learner who seeks out and understands emerging technology and its implications to Target. You partner with your engineering team to drive proof-of-concepts as needed and clearly communicate findings to the organization. You also embody industry best engineering practices and create a culture for learning & growth.

• You are a valued leader and team member who listens and understands other viewpoints, makes the right connections, and drives results that matter enabling Target to deliver exceptional experiences to guests and team members. You are expected to mentor, and coach leads into next in line PE's.

About you:

• Four-year degree or equivalent experience

• Strong written and verbal communication skills

• Able to communicate technical solutions to technical and non-technical partners

• Stay current with new and evolving technologies via formal and self-directed education

• Demonstrated experience leading the design and delivery of enterprise-scale solutions within a large enterprise where the solutions spanned multiple lines of business

• Demonstrated experience defining architecture strategy for a new line of business or enterprise technology capability and driving delivery of the resulting solutions

• Experienced in complex problem solving where the scope of problems is unclear

• Demonstrated experience communicating, influencing, and selling ideas to executive leadership

• Experience as a technology or architecture leader responsible educating, influencing, and supporting business and technology partners

• Track record of driving outcomes in self-directed manner

• Collaborate with Enterprise Architecture teams in setting technical direction across Core data products and drive technology lifecycle management and communication of standards/Outcomes to the engineering team

• 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

• Develop whitepapers, patents, contribution to open-source community, attend/present in conferences

• In-depth knowledge of one or more of major cloud provider platforms (GCP, Azure, etc)

• Broad tech stack – Compute Skills (VM, Containers, Kubernetes), GoLang, IaC Tools, Java/Kotlin/Python, Elastic Search, Kafka, Postgres, Oracle, monitoring/logging tools.