Principal Engineer - Target India

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As a Principal Engineer in Target Marketplace Technology, you set the strategy for software development and infrastructure engineering at Target.

You set the direction for how software and infrastructure engineering efforts will be designed, developed, and operationalized across multiple portfolios and drive adoption.

You lead and approve software and infrastructure engineering efforts to meet functional and non-functional requirements.

You are a thought leader and mentor for internal and external technical talent and actively contribute to the external technical community.

Target Marketplace is an important growth area with an ambition to significantly scale the business in the coming years, and Marketplace Technology serves as a critical interface between Target and our sellers and channel partners.

In this highly visible role, you will lead foundational architecture work that enables that growth, including reimagining Marketplace workflows and integration patterns across core Target enterprise systems for the needs of a scaled third-party seller ecosystem.

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 provide the technical leadership in resolving complex business challenges via current technical solutions by assessing viability/applicability/cost implication through prototypes and POCs.
• Lead the architecture and engineering of sophisticated, production-grade Marketplace capabilities that span organizational and platform boundaries, with a focus on building durable systems that can support materially greater seller, assortment, transaction, and operational scale.
• Shape the modernization of Marketplace workflows that connect with enterprise capabilities, establishing clear abstractions, resilient contracts, and scalable patterns where existing systems were originally optimized for first-party retail.
• Lead designing and building platform APIs and services with deep focus on non-functional requirements including scalability, availability, performance, resilience, security, and operability, while being a strong advocate of agile and DevOps practices across engineers.