# Lead Engineer

**Company**: Target
**Location**: 7000 Target Pkwy N, MN 55445
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $132,000.00 - $238,000.00
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

We are seeking a Lead Engineer to join our Target Technology Modernization team. As a Lead Engineer, you will serve as the technical anchor for the engineering team that supports a product. You will create, own, and be responsible for the application architecture that best serves the product in its functional and non-functional needs.

The Target Technology Modernization team is focused on transforming and replacing legacy systems by building next-generation applications and products. We leverage cutting-edge Generative AI platforms, large language model (LLM) techniques, and advanced prompt engineering to accelerate code generation, model adaptation, inference optimization, and modernize software development.

Key responsibilities:

- Create and own the application architecture that best serves the product in its functional and non-functional needs

- Identify and drive architectural changes to accelerate feature development or improve the quality of service

- Lead or set strategy for testing and debugging at the platform or enterprise level

- 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

Requirements:

- 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

- Proficiency in Java and Python

- Hands-on experience with modern LLM ecosystems (OpenAI, Anthropic, Llama, Gemini, etc.) and productionizing GenAI capabilities

- Experience with PostgreSQL, Open/Elasticsearch, Object Storage (S3/etc.)

- Strong knowledge of emerging GenAI patterns, frameworks, and use-cases

- Demonstrates broad and deep expertise in multiple computer languages and frameworks

- Strong stakeholder communication and ability to lead through influence across teams and partners

- Experience designing scalable, reliable systems with strong performance, cost, and operational health awareness

- Stays current with new and evolving technologies via formal training and self-directed education

- Experience in building highly scalable distributed systems

Benefits:

- Competitive salary ($132,000 - $238,000 per year)

- Comprehensive health benefits and programs

- 401(k)

- Employee discount

- Short-term disability

- Long-term disability

- Paid sick leave

- Paid national holidays

- Paid vacation

## Skills

### Required
- Java
- Python
- PostgreSQL
- Open/Elasticsearch
- Object Storage
- GenAI
- LLM
- Generative AI

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