Principal Technical Architect of Digital and Mobile eCommerce

Minneapolis-based Target Corporation (NYSE: TGT) serves guests at over 1,800 stores and at Target.com. Since 1946, Target has given 5 percent of its profit to communities, that giving equals more than $4 million a week.

• Develop architecture strategy and platform architecture design, develop architecture features.
• Serve as a technical expert to Target Digital and Mobile Architecture team and provide technical guidance to architects and engineers in the team.
• Work with engineering professionals, architects and others within Target to ensure that the solution will scale appropriately while being cost effective.
• Articulate architecture vision, IT strategies, and trade-offs to stakeholders, including senior leadership and business partners.
• Identify opportunities in the Digital and Product platforms that will drive improvements in performance, scalability, reliability and re-usability. Create architecture specifications to meet the platform needs. Lead proof of concept for opportunities
• Propose platform architecture solutions and ensure the engineering teams and Senior Leadership align with the solutions.
• Maintain technology roadmap of the engineering platform and proactively work with the product management organization and engineering managers in driving the technology roadmap.
• Lead long term architecture strategy, and ensure compliance of the reference architecture and security requirements.
• Champion Agile and DevOps mindsets and approaches
• Partner with members of our development organization to develop and communicate a comprehensive IT strategy

Required skills

• BA/BS or equivalent experience
• 12 years software development experience mostly in large scale web systems
• 7+ years Java and Open Source web systems and services
• 3+ years high scale eCommerce
• 3+ years cloud architecture
• 3+ years NoSQL (Cassandra, MongoDB, Neo4j or Hadoop)
• 3+ years of architecture in an Agile environment
• Has a working knowledge of designing and implementing software architectures (application, data persistence, high-volume/low-latency data integration)
• Has a working knowledge of building services for Mobile Applications
• Ability to stay current with new and evolving technologies via formal training and self-directed education
• Ability to convey technical solutions clearly to the entire organization
• Ability to provide work direction to a small team as needed

Preferred skills

• Extensive modern digital architectures, such as cloud, microservices, and APIs.
• Experience using CDNs to accelerate digital systems
• Experience in web security in datacenter and cloud
• Experience in multiple languages including Java, Groovy, Go or Javascript
• Experience with front-end JS frameworks (Angular, Backbone, React) and Node.js
• Large retail background a plus, but not required.