Lead Engineer Core Retail Services

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As a lead engineer you serve as the technical anchor for the engineering team that supports a product. You create own and are responsible for the application architecture that best serves the product in its functional and non-functional needs. You identify and drive architectural changes to accelerate feature development or improve the quality of service (or both). You have deep and broad engineering skills and are capable of standing up an architecture in its whole on your own but you choose to influence a wider team by acting as a force multiplier. Core responsibilities of this job are described within this job description. Job duties may change at any time due to business needs.

Core Retail Services (CRS) a Tiger Team is a small cross-functional group of engineers brought together to rapidly address high-priority enterprise challenges or opportunities. These teams move fast remove barriers and focus on diagnosing issues testing solutions and delivering outcomes that advance CRS and enterprise priorities. Tiger Teams are used when work is urgent complex or strategically important and requires tight coordination across product engineering data and operations to deliver at pace.

Use your skills experience and talents to be a part of groundbreaking thinking and visionary goals. As a Lead Engineer youll take the lead as you
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 participate in decision-making accounting for several factors such as viability within Targets 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 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. Provide suggestions for handling routine and moderately complex technical problems escalating issues when appropriate. 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 Targets 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.

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

About you:

• 4-year degree or equivalent experience

• Minimum of 7-10 years of software development experience with at least one full cycle implementation

• Demonstrates strong domain-specific knowledge regarding Targets 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

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