Principal Solution Designer Enterprise Data Strategy

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As a Principal Solution Designer you will design the technical solutions that bring Targets enterprise data strategy to life. You will translate the enterprise vision for a modern cloud-native AI-enabled data ecosystem into practical architectures and solution designs that deliver measurable business outcomes.

Your work will ensure Targets data platform is not only technically robust but also designed for trust usability and scaleempowering teams across the enterprise to access understand and act on data with confidence. You will partner closely with architect and engineering leaders to design solutions that modernize Targets data foundation simplify complexity and accelerate innovation.

This role is ideal for a strategic problem solver who can connect architecture to executionbridging data strategy technical design and business enablement. As a bridge between architecture engineering product and experience you will connect long-term strategy to practical design. As the Principal Solution Designer you will translate vision into end-to-end solution designs and technical roadmapsensuring strategy becomes reality through scalable high-quality and business-aligned solutions.

Core responsibilities of this job are described within this job description. Job duties may change at any time due to business needs.

Solution Design and Architecture:

• Lead end-to-end solution design for the modern cloud-native data platform ensuring alignment with enterprise architectural principles and technology direction - balancing speed scalability and cost efficiency.

• Translate the enterprise data strategy and architectural blueprints into actionable scalable and secure solution designs across ingestion storage processing analytics and AI/ML activation layers.

• Embed architectural patterns that support real-time event-driven and AI-augmented solutions.

• Partner with data scientists product and engineering teams to power real-time predictive and prescriptive insights.

Platform Modernization and Delivery:

• Partner with engineering teams to deliver designs with excellence reliability and measurable business impact.

• Advance Targets data ecosystem through interoperable reusable and observable solutions.

• Drive adoption of GenAI-enabled capabilities and automation within the modern data platform.

Data Quality and Governance by Design:

• Embed governance metadata and lineage standards into every solution to enhance trust compliance and discoverability.