Principal Engineer

Principal Engineer - Technology Properties

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 Principal Engineer, you will help shape the future of technology within Target’s Property space. This is a newly created leadership role that will own the technical strategy and architecture across Target’s property planning, design, construction, operations, and asset management systems. As we shift to a data-driven, integrated platform model, we need a system builder, someone who understands architecture at scale, embraces autonomy, and thrives at the intersection of engineering, product, and business strategy.

You’ll help redefine how Target manages billions in physical assets across stores, supply chain, and HQ. The opportunity is foundational: we’re connecting fragmented systems, empowering business teams with real-time insights, and building a future-ready property platform from the ground up.

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…
 

• Architect the Future of Property Tech: Lead the design and evolution of a scalable, resilient, and intelligent platform for capital projects, smart buildings, design systems (e.g., Revit), and operations.
• Modernize Legacy Tech: Guide the transformation from vendor-heavy, siloed tools (e.g., MicroStation, Maximo) to modular, service-based architecture.
• Enable Data-Driven Decision-Making: Architect solutions that democratize access to property-related data - unlocking insights around location strategy, energy use, design efficiency, and operational health.
• Bridge Systems and Functions: Partner across engineering, product, and business (construction, real estate, store design) to define end-to-end integration strategies that support real-time, event-driven workflows.
• Mentor and Lead Technically: Serve as a hands-on leader for a growing tech team, guiding solution patterns, design reviews, and architecture governance.

Understand Target's business and technical environments and assist teams in resolving complex business challenges via current technical solutions by assessing viability/applicability/cost implication 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. Work with engineering leaders to build a high performing engineering team and provide technical leadership, coaching, motivation and participate in the selection of technical talent.

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

About you:

• 15+ years of experience in software/platform architecture, preferably at large-scale organizations
• Proven experience building event-driven and API-first platforms across distributed systems
• Strong understanding of cloud-native architectures, microservices, and real-time data pipelines
• Experience with system integrations across product and vendor ecosystems (20-30+ tools)
• Exposure to property, construction, design tech (Revit, BIM), EAM/CMMS, or smart buildings
• Familiarity with GenAI use cases, Industrial IoT data flows, and data observability tools is a plus
• Has proven leadership capabilities, the ability to influence others and top leadership, interpersonal skills, and problem-solving skills
• Strong team player who understands concepts of teamwork and team effectiveness.
• Has excellent verbal, written, and presentation communication skills to convey complex technical solutions clearly to an organization
• Understands 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

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• Life at Target- https://india.target.com/
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• Culture- https://india.target.com/life-at-target/belonging