**Lead Engineer - Role & Responsibilities** As a Lead Engineer, you will provide technical leadership and architectural direction while remaining hands-on in building scalable, resilient, and production-grade systems. You will play a critical role in shaping engineering standards, driving modernization, and enabling intelligent, AI-powered capabilities across the platform. **Key Responsibilities** + **Technology Evaluation & Innovation** + Evaluate emerging technologies and contribute to architectural decision-making, considering alignment with Target's technical ecosystem, long-term maintainability, scalability, and total cost of ownership. + Lead research initiatives and proof-of-concept efforts to validate new tools, frameworks, and platforms before adoption. + **Architecture & Engineering Excellence** + Design and own scalable, secure, high-performance architectures. + Establish and evolve engineering standards and best practices in complex or ambiguous environments. + Lead service design, lifecycle management, and overall technical governance of team-owned platforms. + Ensure code quality, infrastructure standards, and long-term sustainability of services. + **Hands-On Development & Delivery** + Contribute directly to development efforts, particularly on complex and high-impact components. + Ensure solutions are production-ready, deployable, resilient, and scalable. + Drive implementation quality through strong testing, automation, and CI/CD practices. + **Enterprise Impact & Thought Leadership** + Provide technical thought leadership to promote reusable components and consistent architectural patterns. + Participate in planning and designing services with enterprise-wide impact. + Guide the team in resolving routine and moderately complex technical challenges, escalating risks when necessary. + **Observability & Reliability Engineering** + Champion a culture of observability and operational excellence. + Ensure monitoring, logging, and metrics are embedded into services.



+ Leverage operational data to continuously improve system stability, performance, and reliability. + Align monitoring strategies with organizational observability principles. + **AI & Intelligent Systems Integration** + Integrate Large Language Models (LLMs) and Generative AI capabilities into core applications. + Design and implement safeguards to mitigate hallucinations and improve AI reliability. + Build and scale agentic frameworks and AI-driven automation solutions to enhance business processes. + **Data Governance & Platform Optimization** + Influence and evolve data standards, policies, and governance practices. + Configure, optimize, and monitor data management platforms with minimal oversight. + Identify performance and efficiency improvements across data systems. **Required Skills & Expertise** + Advanced proficiency in **Java** , including backend systems and automation workflows + Solid experience in **Microservices Architecture** and distributed systems + Expertise with **Spring Boot or Micronaut** , including reactive programming models + Hands-on experience with **AI/LLM integration** and GenAI-enabled applications + Experience with **Messaging Systems** such as Kafka or RabbitMQ + Proficiency with **Databases** , including NoSQL (Cassandra, MongoDB) and SQL (PostgreSQL) + Experience building and managing **CI/CD pipelines** (Jenkins, GitLab, or similar) + Strong background in **Unit & Integration Testing** (JUnit, Spock, TestContainers) + Experience with **Cloud Platforms** (AWS, GCP, Azure) + Expertise in **Containerization & Orchestration** (Docker, Kubernetes) + Strong understanding of **Monitoring & Observability** tools (Grafana, ELK, Prometheus) + Solid grasp of **Event-Driven Architecture** patterns in distributed environments **Preferred Qualifications** + Proficiency in **Python or Kotlin** + Experience with **Legacy System Modernization** and refactoring initiatives + Knowledge of **Security Best Practices** , including OWASP standards and secure coding principles + Familiarity with **Agile methodologies** such as Scrum or Kanban Level: 6

📌 Lead Engineer - Target India (Bengaluru)
🏢 Target
📍 Bengaluru