Target Hiring for Principal Enterprise Architect at Bangalore, India Full Time

Principal Enterprise ArchitectApply Now (https://target.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/targetcareers/job/BangaloreIndia/Principal-Enterprise-Architect_R0000172427) Job ID:R0000172427 job family:Technical Architecture schedule:Full time Location:Target Corporation India Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore, Karnataka, India, 560045;

As a Principal Enterprise Architect, you are a thought leader and trusted partner of product and technology teams defining solutions to highly complex and usually abstract business and technology problems. You solve problems impacting multiple lines of business and technologies often within capabilities critical to Target’s success. You define architecture strategies to deliver new or evolving business and technology capabilities and align partners to those strategies. You define and drive delivery of the subsequent architectural solutions aligning them to Target’s enterprise architecture vision known as Target Platform.

Apply your abilities to solve large abstract problems, see the big picture, take partners, and drive outcomes as you define strategies to lead Target into the future. Your strategic visioning directly contributes to Target’s business and technology vision and the vision of Target Platform. You will extend and refine Target Platform providing a foundation of architectural building blocks and patterns for Target’s solutions. Many of the strategies you define will solve highly complex problems crossing multiple lines of business and require you to lead other architects as they define solutions implementing parts of the strategy within their assigned areas.

You clearly and concisely describe problems, opportunities, and vision in ways product and engineering partners and executive leadership understand. You provide clear guidance for teams to implement solutions and other EA partners to understand and articulate vision to their partners as needed. You present, educate, and debate solutions with executive leadership as necessary to obtain buy-in and drive alignment across the organization.

You are a platform expert and educator who advocates for Target Platform and its usage. You understand all aspects of the platform and its application to problems. You communicate with and educate engineers, product owners, and all levels of leadership in language understandable for their role answering questions and providing required clarity where needed. You possess a broad understanding of Target’s technology, infrastructure, security and compliance landscapes and apply that as you define solutions and guide teams during implementation. You influence engineers to understand and follow policies, standards, and guidelines established to govern solutions.

You are a curious, active learner who seeks out and understands emerging technology and its implications to Target. You partner with engineering to drive proof-of-concepts as needed and clearly communicate findings to the organization.

You are a valued leader and team member who listens and understands other viewpoints, makes the right connections, and drives results that matter enabling Target to deliver exceptional experiences to guests and team members.

About you:

• Four-year degree or equivalent experience

• Atleast 12+years of experience

• Strong written and verbal communication skills

• Able to communicate technical solutions to technical and non-technical partners

• Stay current with new and evolving technologies via formal and self-directed education

• Demonstrated experience building solutions with microservices and event-based architecture using JVM-based languages

• Demonstrated experience leading the design and delivery of enterprise-scale solutions within a large enterprise where the solutions spanned multiple lines of business

• Demonstrated experience defining architecture strategy for a new line of business or enterprise technology capability and driving delivery of the resulting solutions

• Experienced in complex problem solving where the scope of problems is unclear

• Demonstrated experience communicating, influencing, and selling ideas to executive leadership

• Experience as a technology or architecture leader responsible educating, influencing, and supporting business and technology partners

• Track record of driving outcomes in self-directed manner