Lead Data Engineer - High Performance Distributed Computing (Full-Time Remote or Hybrid)

30 Jun 2024

Vacancy expired!

Location: 7000 Target Pkwy N, Brooklyn Park, Minnesota, United States, 55445

About Us:

As a Fortune 50 company with more than 350,000 team members worldwide, Target is an iconic brand and one of America's leading retailers.

Working at Target means the opportunity to help all families discover the joy of everyday life. Caring for our communities is woven into who we are, and we invest in the places we collectively live, work and play. We prioritize relationships, fuel and develop talent by creating growth opportunities, and succeed as one Target team. At our core, our purpose is ingrained in who we are, what we value, and how we work. It's how we care, grow, and win together.

The Target High Performance Distributed Computing team creates the platforms and tools to enable our business partners to make great data-based decisions at Target. This team helps to manage hardware and software for large scale distributed computing, frequently angling towards data analytics and Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning type applications. We help develop the technology that personalizes the guest experience, from product recommendations to relevant ad content. We're also the source of the data and analytics behind Target's Supply Chain optimization, fraud detection, demand forecasting and metrics to support our stores. We play a key role in identifying the test-and-measure or A/B test opportunities that continuously help Target improve the guest experience, whether they love to shop in stores or at Target.com.

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 and platform architecture that best serves the product in its functional and non-functional needs. You'll bring innovative ideas and help set the strategy for the future of our platform. You love keeping abreast of the latest industry trends and use them to help you innovate. You have leadership qualities, good judgment, and clear communication skills. If you're excited to work on a fast-moving, tightly knit team and build solutions to unsolved problems, we want to meet you.

Use your skills, experience, and talents to be a part of groundbreaking thinking and visionary goals. As a Lead 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/costimplication 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.

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

About You:
  • BA/BS or equivalent experience
  • 7+ years of relevant experience
  • Detailed knowledge of GNU/Linux OS (at least 5 years of experience w/ administration of production grade services running on Linux servers)
  • Strong proficiency in Java
  • Have deep understanding of some of the following concepts:
  • Operating System Architecture, memory management, process scheduling, I/O scheduling
  • Networking, technologies, latency, bandwidth
  • Benchmarking, Performance Debugging, Performance monitoring
  • Limiting-resource Identification
  • Strong exposure and experience with the following technologies:
  • Hadoop (multi-node fully distributed Hadoop clusters)
  • Spark
  • HDFS
  • Have familiarity and experience with some of the following technologies:
  • Hive
  • ZooKeeper
  • Ozone
  • Trino/PrestoSQL
  • Oozie
  • Ranger
  • Possess a strong understanding of high-performance, large-scale system architecture design and implementation
  • Experience with high-performance distributed and parallel processing, computer architecture, operating systems, synchronization, communication
  • Experience with modern CI/CD technologies such as Git, Drone, Docker, Artifactory
  • Understand business fundamentals and how technologies can support business goals along with how to translate business vision into a technical strategy while understanding the financial implications
  • Have proven leadership capabilities, the ability to influence others, interpersonal skills, and problem-solving skills
  • Strong team player who understands concepts of teamwork and team effectiveness.
  • Have excellent verbal, written, and presentation communication skills to convey complex technical solutions clearly to an organization
  • Have excellent planning and organizational skills
  • Proven track record in writing code that is correct, maintainable, testable, expressive, easy to change, efficient & fault-tolerant
  • Extensive understanding of software development and design

This position may be considered for a Full-Time Remote or Hybrid work arrangement based on Target's needs. A Hybrid work arrangement means the team members core role will be a blend of virtual and onsite at a Target location. A Full-Time Remote work arrangement means the team member works full-time from home or an alternate location that's not a Target location, does not have a desk at their primary HQ work location and may travel to HQ up to 4 times a year.

Colorado, Connecticut or Nevada Residents Only: The salary range for Colorado, Connecticut or Nevada residents is $105,800-$190,400. Pay is based on several factors including but not limited to education, work experience, certifications, etc. In addition to your salary, Target cares about and invests in you as a team member, so that you can take care of yourself and your family. Find competitive benefits from financial and education to well-being and beyond.

Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)

Target will provide reasonable accommodations (such as a qualified sign language interpreter or other personal assistance) with the application process upon your request as required to comply with applicable laws. If you have a disability and require assistance in this application process, please visit your nearest Target store or Distribution Center or reach out to Guest Services at 1- for additional information.

  • ID: #43703251
  • State: Minnesota Brooklynpark 55429 Brooklynpark USA
  • City: Brooklynpark
  • Salary: USD TBD TBD
  • Job type: Permanent
  • Showed: 2022-06-30
  • Deadline: 2022-08-22
  • Category: Et cetera