Engineer - IAM

The pay range is $75,400.00 - $135,700.00

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.

R0000480289 IAM Engineer 

 

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. 

 

Are you an experienced, passionate, and innovative pioneer in technology – a solution builder, a get down to the nitty gritty engineer who thrives in a collaborative and FUN environment? Do you see the opportunity of Identity as a foundation for a robust Cybersecurity posture? Do you think you could make our world-class team better? If so, consider a career within Target Cybersecurity on the Identity and Access Management (IAM) Team. 

 

Wake up every morning and KNOW you are making a difference! As an Engineer in IAM, you serve as a technical specialist delivering the engineering that powers the product to securely enable the right access, for the right individual, for the right period of time while ensuring seamless visibility to the greater organization. You develop keen insight into the technical architecture and design to deliver robust and scalable software components. You constantly demonstrate the depth of your expertise by solving engineering problems. You are passionate about the quality of software and balance between the speed of delivering new features and robustness of the software components you implement. You can handle operational issues with little or no oversight. You actively review code to ensure the software quality and functional accuracy is maintained across the team. You are keen to learn the design and architecture of the product and participate in ceremonies that can influence both. 

 

Use your technology acumen to provide input to assist with evaluation of new technologies and contribute to the design, lifecycle management, and total cost of ownership of services. Contribute to research and proof-of-concept initiatives for new technologies and assist with code review and design review, writes, organizes and maintains code based on designs. With guidance, delivers high-performance, scalable, repeatable, and secure deliverables. Participate in structured construction, automation, debugging, and implementation activities, ensuring architectural and operational requirements and best practices are met. Participate in disaster recovery planning and disaster recovery activities and participate in functional integration and regression testing and ability to automate test scripts. Resolve frequently encountered technical issues and monitors systems capacity with minimal assistance. Search and understand metadata about various data sources and metrics. Adhere to change and incident management standards and expectations. 

 

Core responsibilities 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 

• 1+ years of relevant object-oriented application building experience in a professional environment 

• 1+ years of core Java design and development experience working with RESTful API 

• Demonstrates familiarity with current and emerging technologies in own scope of responsibility, and develops ability to apply these technologies 

• Understands concepts of package solutions and package specific programming language with knowledge of development objects 

• Demonstrates and continuously builds upon domain-specific knowledge 

• Demonstrates proficiency in at least one computer language 

• Understands the concepts of distributed programming and applies it to their domain 

• Knowledge of the different data structures in your chosen programming language and how to apply them. 

• Maintains technical knowledge within areas of expertise 

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

 

Preferred experience:  

• Experience in test automation and test-driven development 

• CICD: Code Pipelines like Docker, Drone, Vela, Testing frameworks (e.g., Junit, JaCoCo) 

• Metrics visualizations like Grafana 

• Log aggregation with Logstash and Kibana 

• Working knowledge in Unix based OS (e.g., Linux, Ubuntu) 

• Working knowledge in databases like Postgres, Oracle, Mongo, Influx, ELK Stack (Elasticsearch) 

• Working knowledge of Identity and Access Management and identity governance principles 

 

Optional experience:  

• Identity and Access Management (IAM) 

• Identity Governance 

• Core Java Development 

• Object-Oriented Programming (OOP)  

• RESTful API Development 

• Software Engineering Fundamentals 

• Secure Software Development  

• Software Debugging and Troubleshooting  

• Unit Testing 

• Integration Testing 

• Regression Testing 

• Test Automation 

• Test-Driven Development (TDD)  

• JUnit 

• JaCoCo 

• CI/CD Pipelines 

• Docker 

• Drone  

• Vela  

• PostgreSQL 

• Logstash  

• Kibana  

• Grafana 

• Application Monitoring and Observability 

• Code Reviews  

• Design Reviews  

• Incident Management 

• Change Management 

• Disaster Recovery  

• Root Cause Analysis 

• Production Support 

• Technical Documentation 

• Problem Solving 

• Cross-Functional Collaboration 

• Communication 

• Continuous Learning 

• AI-Assisted Software Development 

• Agile 

 

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. 

 

Benefits Eligibility

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Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)

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