Principal Engineer

Job Description

As a Principal Engineer , you are a thought leader and trusted partner of product and technology teams defining solutions to highly complex and usually abstract business and technology problems. You solve problems impacting multiple lines of business and technologies often within capabilities critical to Target's success. You define architecture strategies to deliver new or evolving business and technology capabilities and align partners to those strategies. You define and drive delivery of the subsequent architectural solutions that would evolve the Merchandising products. Apply your abilities to solve large abstract problems, see the big picture, take partners, and drive outcomes as you define strategies to lead Merchandising 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 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 16+ years of experience in building software products Demonstrates experience building solutions with microservices and event-based architecture using JVM-based language Strong experience in leading the design and delivery of enterprise-scale solutions within a large enterprise where the solutions spanned multiple lines of business Experience defining architecture strategy for a new line of business or enterprise technology capability and driving delivery of the resulting solutions Leads in the creation and execution of novel solutions to complex, unbounded technical problems Strong hold in prioritizing and balance short-term and long-term investments, focusing on high impact, high value work, including tech debt Understands and articulates the technical constraints/trade-offs for their proposals/solutions Writing and maintaining technical documentation, including system design documents, API documentation, and best practices guidelines. Broad tech stack Springboot, Java, Kotlin, Elastic Search, Kafka, ReactJS, Postgres, Oracle