The pay range is $128,000.00 - $231,000.00 Pay is based on several factors which vary based on position. These include labor markets and in some instances may 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 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 architecture that best serves the product in its functional and non-functional needs. You identify and drive architectural changes to accelerate feature development or improve the quality of service (or both). You have deep and broad engineering skills and are capable of standing up an architecture in its whole on your own, but you choose to influence a wider team by acting as a "force multiplier". Core responsibilities of this job are described within this job description. Job duties may change at any time due to business needs. Use your skills, experience and talents to be a part of groundbreaking thinking and visionary goals. As a Lead Engineer on the Public Cloud team, you'll take the lead as you: + Deploy, manage, and support cloud infrastructure solutions using Cloud services, particularly Google Cloud, with a strong focus on cloud networking. + Implement best practices for cloud resource provisioning, configuration management, monitoring, and security. + Develop and maintain cloud resources using tools such as Terraform to automate deployment and configuration tasks. + Drive continuous improvement through the adoption of automation and orchestration. + Use your technology acumen to apply and maintain knowledge of current and emerging technologies within specialized area(s) of the technology domain. + Evaluate new technologies and participates in decision-making, accounting for several factors such as viability within Target's technical environment, maintainability, and cost of ownership. Initiate and execute research and proof-of-concept activities for new technologies. + Lead or set strategy for testing and debugging at the platform or enterprise level. + In complex and unstructured situations, serve as an expert resource to create and improve standards and best practices to ensure high-performance, scalable, repeatable, and secure deliverables. + Lead the design, lifecycle management, and total cost of ownership of services. + Provide the team with thought leadership to promote re-use and develop consistent, scalable patterns. + Provide suggestions for handling routine and moderately complex technical problems, escalating issues when appropriate. + Monitor workflow and risks; play a leadership role in mitigating risks and removing obstacles. + Lead and participate in complex construction, automation, and implementation activities, ensuring successful implementation with architectural and operational requirements met. + Establish new standards and best practices to monitor, test, automate, and maintain IT components or systems. + Stay current with Target's technical capabilities, infrastructure, and technical environment. Core responsibilities of this job are described within this job description. Job duties may change at any time due to business needs. About you: + 4 year degree or equivalent experience + 5+ years of software development experience with a focus on cloud services + Demonstrates strong domain-specific knowledge regardingcloud services and their best practices – account/subscription management, compute, storage, databases, serverless, IAM, etc. + Experience using cloud provisioning tools such as Terraform + Familiarity with container and orchestration technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes. + Familiarity with various Linux distributions and the operation of virtual machines + Communicates and coordinates with project team, partners, and stakeholders + Demonstrates expertise in analysis and optimization of systems capacity, performance, and operational health + Experience in building highly scalable distributed systems This position will operate as 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 role will need to be performed both 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. Click here (http://corporate.target.com/about/locations/twin-cities-market) if you are curious to learn more about Minnesota. **Benefits Eligibility** Please paste this url into your preferred browser to learn about benefits eligibility for this role: https://tgt.biz/BenefitsForYou\_E **Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)** In compliance with state and federal laws, Target will make reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities. If a reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, please reach out to candidate.accommodations@HRHelp.Target.com.