Target Engineering Jobs (NOW HIRING)

The pay range is $168,000.00 - $303,000.00

Pay is based on several factors which vary based on position.These include labor markets and in some instancesmay include education, work experience and certifications. In addition to your pay, Target cares about and invests in you as a team member, so that you can take care of yourself and your family. Target offers eligible team members and their dependents comprehensive health benefits and programs, which may include medical, vision, dental, life insurance and more, to help you and your family take care of your whole selves.Other benefits for eligible team members include 401(k), employee discount, short term disability, long term disability, paid sick leave, paid national holidays, and paid vacation.Find competitive benefits from financial and education to well-being and beyond at https://corporate.target.com/careers/benefits.

About Us:

Working at Target means helping all families discover the joy of everyday life. We bring that vision to life through our values and culture.Learn more about Target here.

As a Director ofEngineering,you willbe responsible forthe technology decisions that enable the business plan and will manage an engineering team in an agile environment. You willbe responsible forproviding guidance to engineers and making relevant technology solution decisions related to complex and/or new wave technology products. The key to success in this position is having a strong & innovative approach to problem solving, great technical leadership, excellent communication, flexibility, and a self-motivated working style with attention to detail. This role will require you to be hands-on on technology and will be expectedto dodesign/development ofhighly scalable systems while leading the engineering teams.

About this Team:

Target Cybersecurity nurturesa culture of continualinnovationand right now, we are up tobig things! Target's Cybersecurity team is a place where innovation happens daily. Interested in a culture that combines ongoing learning, engineering excellence, and stellar outcomes? We are too -that'swhy we work here. Like everyone else,Target is figuring out how best to use GenAI tech, and of course, that also means figuring out how to do it safely. Help us create andbuild outa strategy, roadmap, and capabilities centered around making GenAI technologies secure. We are creating a new dedicated team to that end, and thisrole will lead that team.

You'll collaborate with technical and leadership teams across all of Target Tech to lead a team of security architects to ensure that systems are designed and built securely.You will lead your team toidentifyrelevant security risks, developappropriate mitigationstrategies, integrate security functions and controls into the overall system architecture, evaluate and provide feedback on proposed architectures, and design secure architecture. This role is highly technical, and you bring a deep understanding of security risks, controls, mitigations, and standards to a collaborative and advisory role, helping the rest of the enterprise as new platforms and systems are built, and as existing ones are modified over time. Beyond the deepexpertise, you have great interpersonal skills: our Security Architects are called upon to collaborate across theenterprise, andhave exceptional communication skills that enable open and cooperative partnerships.You'lluse your skills,experienceand talents to be a part of groundbreaking thinking and visionary goalsfor the AI Security domain.You'lltake the lead as you drive best practices and ensure development ofhigh-qualitysecuritysolutions/technologies through advocating and ensuring standards for common assets and framework components. You willhelpdeterminethe technologychoices,andbuild and managea team of high caliberengineers.You will manage cross-product technical dependencies and handle conflict resolution.You will advocate for and ensure standards around technologies, frameworks, design patterns,processesand guiding values of the domain architecture and ensure all solutions/technologies adhere to all development & security standards. Andyou'llinspire a strong culture of engineering through meetups and contribute to the technical community in forums/groups.

Expectto:

Assistyour team in driving technical decision making, adhering to Target platform architecture and other enterprise considerations.You'llhave a strong focus on team management and development.

Establish good stakeholder communication, work closely with partner teams, and help drive requirements while being a strong advocate ofefficient and secure codingpractices across engineers.

Build and manage a team of high performingarchitectsand provide leadership, coaching, motivation and recommend staffing levels, operating procedures, tools, and systems for the team.

Provide career development and performance management to a team ofarchitects.

Collaboratewith system designers to integrate security requirements into the design phase of IT systems

Developandmaintainsecurity architecture documentation, including security models, frameworks, and diagrams

Ensurethat security architecture aligns with the organization's businessobjectivesand regulatory requirements

Understandsecurity risksin ordertoidentifypotential vulnerabilities and threats

Developrisk mitigation strategies and recommendappropriate securitycontrols

Designandimplementsecuritysolutions, including firewalls, encryption protocols, and access control mechanisms

Collaboratewith development and operations teams to ensure securecreation anddeployment of IT systems

Provideguidance on secure coding practices

Prioritizedrivinghighlyimpactfulchangesthat improve the business

Conductfull-stack architecture reviewsof products and platforms

Provideexpertiseon information security for complex systems and applications in cloud and on-prem environments

Designsecurity reference architectures andcreateimplementation/configuration guides

Provideexpertiseon creation and implementation ofsecurity controls with an emphasis on cloud technologies

Efficientlyassessand communicaterisk accurately while negotiating priorities with cross-domain stakeholders

Collaboratewith engineering teams to perform advanced security analysis on complex cloud systems,identifyinggaps while contributing to design solutions and security requirements

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

About You:

Four-year degree in computer science or equivalent

10+ years of hands-on experience in technology, with extensive knowledge of cybersecurity domains including Information Protection, Cloud Security, Networking Security, IAM, Automation and SIEM

5+ years of managing teams with a strongtrack recordof delivery for cross-functional products

Experience working in an agile environment (e.g.user stories, iterative development, etc.) including continuous integration and continuous delivery practices

Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present complex technical information in a clear and concise manner to variety of audiences

Strong technical knowledge and background with an understanding ofopen-sourceframeworks

Strong senseof ownership andproblem-solvingskills

Polyglot programmer comfortable in many languages across different platforms

Demonstrated curiosity and ability to learn

Expertisein containerization technologiesand tools

DomainexpertiseinAI/ML

Seeks out cross-team collaboration opportunities

Stays current on relevant technologies with self-directed learning

Excellent written and verbal interpersonal skills with strong presentation abilities

Proven history of effectivelyutilizinga variety of security tools and technologies across diverse environments. The ideal candidate will not be limited to specific vendors or solutions but willpossessthe technical depth tocomprehendand implement an end-to-end solution that aligns with our reference security architecture's requirements

Good understanding of security management workflows in large enterprise organizations and complex environments

Has a good understanding of the current threat landscape and the challenges that most organizations are facing

In-depth knowledge of security frameworks, standards, and best practices (e.g., NIST, ISO/IEC 27001)

Strong understanding of network security, cryptography, and secure software development

Experience with security technologies, such as firewalls, IDS/IPS, SIEM, and DLP

Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills

Stays current on relevant technologies with self-directed learning

Excellent written and verbal interpersonal skills with strong presentation abilities

This position willoperateas a Hybrid/Flex for Your Day work arrangement based on Target's needs. A Hybrid/Flex for Your Day work arrangement means the team member's core rolewill need to beperformedboth onsite at the Target HQ MN location the role is assigned to and virtually,depending upon what your role, team and tasks require for that day. Work duties cannot be performed outside of the country of the primary work location, unless otherwise prescribed by Target. Clickhereif you are curious to learn more about Minnesota.

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