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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.\nAbout Us\nWorking 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. Target is one of the world’s most recognized brands and one of America’s leading retailers. But behind the brand our guests love, is a culture of continual innovation and right now, we are up to big things! Target’s security team is a place where innovation happens daily. Interested in a culture that combines ongoing learning, engineering excellence, and stellar outcomes? We are too - that’s why we work here. Join our team to improve Target’s security and move the business forward.\nAs a Lead Engineer on the Security Architecture team, you’ll collaborate with technical and leadership teams across Target Tech to ensure that systems are designed and built securely. You will identify relevant security risks, develop appropriate mitigation strategies, integrate security functions and controls into the overall system architecture, evaluate and provide feedback on proposed architectures, and design secure architecture. This role is highly technical, and you bring a deep understanding of security risks, controls, mitigations, and standards to a collaborative and advisory role, helping the rest of the enterprise as new platforms and systems are built, and as existing ones are modified over time.\nBeyond the deep expertise, you have great interpersonal skills: our Security Architects are called upon to collaborate across the enterprise and have exceptional communication skills that enable open and cooperative partnerships.\nExpect to:\nCollaborate with system designers to integrate security requirements into the design phase of IT systems\n\nDevelop and maintain security architecture documentation, including security models, frameworks, and diagrams\n\nEnsure that security architecture aligns with the organization’s business objectives and regulatory requirements\n\nUnderstand security risks in order to identify potential vulnerabilities and threats\n\nDevelop risk mitigation strategies and recommend appropriate security controls\n\nDesign and implement security solutions, including firewalls, encryption protocols, and access control mechanisms\n\nCollaborate with development and operations teams to ensure secure creation and deployment of IT systems\n\nProvide guidance on secure coding practices\n\nPrioritize driving highly impactful changes that improve the business\n\nConduct full-stack architecture reviews of products and platforms\n\nProvide expertise on information security for complex systems and applications in cloud and on-prem environments\n\nDesign security reference architectures and create implementation/configuration guides\n\nProvide expertise on creation and implementation of security controls with an emphasis on cloud technologies\n\nEfficiently assess and communicate risk accurately while negotiating priorities with cross-domain stakeholders\n\nCollaborate with engineering teams to perform advanced security analysis on complex cloud systems, identifying gaps while contributing to design solutions and security requirements\n\nCore responsibilities of this job are described within this job description. Job duties may change at any time due to business needs.\nAbout You:\n4-year degree OR equivalent experience\n\nPolyglot programmer comfortable in many languages across different platforms\n\n7+ years of hands-on experience in technology, with extensive knowledge of cybersecurity domains including Information Protection, AI Security and/or Cloud Security (GCP strongly preferred)\n\nDemonstrated curiosity and ability to learn\n\nExpertise in containerization technologies and tools\n\nSolid understanding of genAI/ML\n\nUnderstanding of prompt injection and its various styles (direct, indirect, RAG poisoning, etc.) / Familiarity with OWSAP top ten for LLMs\n\nUnderstanding of MCP auth patterns including dynamic client registration\n\nKnowledge in RAG authorization patterns\n\nExperience mitigating the security risks of local coding agents.\n\nSeeks out cross-team collaboration opportunities\n\nStays current on relevant technologies with self-directed learning\n\nExcellent written and verbal interpersonal skills with strong presentation abilities\n\nProven history of effectively utilizing a variety of security tools and technologies across diverse environments. The ideal candidate will not be limited to specific vendors or solutions but will possess the technical depth to comprehend and implement an end-to-end solution that aligns with our reference security architecture's requirements\n\nGood understanding of security management workflows in large enterprise organizations and complex environments\n\nHas a good understanding of the current threat landscape and the challenges that most organizations are facing\n\nKnowledge of security frameworks, standards, and best practices (e.g., NIST, ISO/IEC 27001)\n\nStrong understanding of network security, cryptography, and secure software development\n\nExperience with security technologies, such as firewalls, IDS/IPS, SIEM, and DLP\n\nExcellent analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills\n\nPreferred:\nGCP native security product experience (VPC Service Controls, Organization constraints, Cloud Armor, NextGen Firewall etc.)\n\nExperience with Google SCC or Wiz is a plus\n\nVertex AI experience\n\nAWS or Azure experience\n\nThis position may be considered for a Remote or Hybrid (known internally at Target as \"Flex for Your Day\") work arrangement based on Target's needs. 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