Principal Engineer - Technology Properties
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As a Principal Engineer, you will help shape the future of technology within Target’s Property space. This is a newly created leadership role that will own the technical strategy and architecture across Target’s property planning, design, construction, operations, and asset management systems. As we shift to a data-driven, integrated platform model, we need a system builder, someone who understands architecture at scale, embraces autonomy, and thrives at the intersection of engineering, product, and business strategy.
You’ll help redefine how Target manages billions in physical assets across stores, supply chain, and HQ. The opportunity is foundational: we’re connecting fragmented systems, empowering business teams with real-time insights, and building a future-ready property platform from the ground up.
Use your skills, experience and talents to be a part of groundbreaking thinking and visionary goals. As a Principal Engineer, you’ll take the lead as you…
Understand Target's business and technical environments and assist teams in resolving complex business challenges via current technical solutions by assessing viability/applicability/cost implication through POCs and prototypes. Collaborate with technical staff and Enterprise Architecture teams in setting technical direction across platform and drive technology lifecycle management and communication of standards/decisions to the engineering team. Participate in procurement specifications, installation, and maintenance of Target systems. Lead designing and building the Target platform API with deep focus on non-functional requirement including scalability, availability, performance, etc. while being a strong advocate of extreme agile and DevOps practices across engineers. 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.
Core responsibilities of this job are described within this job description. Job duties may change at any time due to business needs.
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