Principal Solution Designer – Enterprise Data Strategy

Pay & Benefits

The pay range is $ – $. 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.

• 401(k)
• employee discount
• short term disability
• long term disability
• paid sick leave
• paid national holidays
• paid vacation

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As a Principal Solution Designer, you will design the technical solutions that bring Target’s enterprise data strategy to life. You will translate the enterprise vision for a modern, cloud-native, AI-enabled data ecosystem into practical architectures and solution designs that deliver measurable business outcomes. Your work will ensure Target’s data platform is not only technically robust but also designed for trust, usability, and scale—empowering teams across the enterprise to access, understand, and act on data with confidence.

You will partner closely with architect and engineering leaders to design solutions that modernize Target’s data foundation, simplify complexity, and accelerate innovation. This role is ideal for a strategic problem solver who can connect architecture to execution—bridging data strategy, technical design, and business enablement. As a bridge between architecture, engineering, product, and experience, you will connect long-term strategy to practical design.

As the Principal Solution Designer, you will translate vision into end-to-end solution designs and technical roadmaps—ensuring strategy becomes reality through scalable, high-quality, and business-aligned solutions.

• Lead end-to-end solution design for the modern, cloud-native data platform, ensuring alignment with enterprise architectural principles and technology direction – balancing speed, scalability, and cost efficiency.
• Translate the enterprise data strategy and architectural blueprints into actionable, scalable, and secure solution designs across ingestion, storage, processing, analytics, and AI/ML activation layers.
• Embed architectural patterns that support real-time, event-driven, and AI-augmented solutions.
• Partner with data scientists, product, and engineering teams to power real-time, predictive, and prescriptive insights.
• Partner with engineering teams to deliver designs with excellence, reliability, and measurable business impact.
• Advance Target’s data ecosystem through interoperable, reusable, and observable solutions.
• Drive adoption of GenAI-enabled capabilities and automation within the modern data platform.
• Embed governance, metadata, and lineage standards into every solution to enhance trust, compliance, and discoverability.
• Design for self-service analytics and consistent data experiences across business domains.
• Partner with governance teams to uphold enterprise standards for data quality and responsible AI.
• Partner with enterprise architects and senior leaders to ensure alignment with long-term strategy.
• Mentor solution designers and engineers, elevating solution quality and design thinking across the org.

• 4-year degree or equivalent experience.
• Continuing education to maintain thorough knowledge of technical domains along with staying current in latest technologies.
• 12+ years of experience in solution architecture and technology development with deep expertise in data platforms, cloud ecosystems, and enterprise-scale integrations.
• 4+ years of experience in strategic planning and setting technical direction.
• Proven track record driving large-scale, cross-functional data modernization initiatives from concept to delivery.
• Experience influencing enterprise architecture, data governance, and/or product strategy across multiple teams or domains.
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