Target - Technical Architect - WCS

Technical Architect - WCS

About this Opportunity

The Target Technology Services (TTS) team designs and creates innovative solutions for a variety of applications, platforms and environments. TTS not only gives Target a competitive advantage in the marketplace, but also enhances the guest experience through the smart use of technology in the retail industry.

Use your skills, experience and talents to be a part of groundbreaking thinking and visionary goals. As a Technical Architect, you'll take the lead as you

- Contributes to project success by providing technical leadership on assigned projects.

- Evaluates and anticipates impact of technical solutions on related projects.

- Writes technical architecture and solutions

- Translates technical solutions based on client’s needs and feasibility.

- Stays current with technology and determines the impact of hardware and/or software upgrades on new and existing applications.

- Evaluates vendor products and prepares recommendations.

- Ensures high quality, adherence to standards and best practices, high performance, and scalable, repeatable processes and deliverables.

- Understands interrelationships and impacts of systems and applications upon the Target technical environment.

- Participates in project estimation.

- Provides project knowledge and expertise to the TTS organization.

- Identifies and escalates issues and, when necessary, pulls appropriate teams together to solve challenge/issue, etc.

- Prioritizes workload and accomplishes assignments on time, ensuring deliverables are high quality.

- Prepares and conducts technical instruction and mentoring for team members and rollout room staff.

- Completes all administration in a timely and quality manner

Requirements

- Four year college Enginerring degree

- 5 to 12 years of J2EE and e-Commerce experience with 3 to 4 years of IBM WCS experience

- Strong verbal, presentation and written communications skills for technical audiences; able to explain technical solutions to technical teams

- Good interpersonal, problem solving, reasoning and analytical skills

- Good negotiation skills

- Good planning and organizational skills

- Self-starter with self- initiative and direction

- Works well independently

- Works with confidential information

- Good numeric aptitude

- Understands the retail business, technology, and the application of technology to our business
Solid SDLC knowledge and expertise