Data Engineer - Target Tech and AI

Target

Closes in 2 days Hybrid

Quick summary

Work type
Hybrid
Location
Minneapolis, MN
Salary
$75,400–$135,700 / yr
Posted
5 days ago
Closes
Jun 18, 2026 (soon)

Market check

Salary context

Below market

How this pay compares to similar roles

Similar $177k
This role $106k
$58k most similar roles pay here $237k

This role pays less than 95% of similar roles. Most pay $142,050–$211,200 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $106k versus about $177k for comparable roles.

Based on 240 similar postings.

Employer

About Target

Target Corporation is a large-format general merchandise and grocery retailer offering a wide assortment of everyday essentials, apparel, home goods, and electronics through stores and online. Industry: General Merchandise Retail

Target currently has 49 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $115,000–$211,000 across 49 roles with salary data.

Most-posted roles

View all roles at Target

At a glance

TL;DR · Data Engineer - Target Tech and AI

As a Data Engineer at Target Tech, you will join a dynamic and growing team responsible for building and optimizing data pipelines to support business intelligence, analytics, and machine learning initiatives. Your day-to-day responsibilities include designing scalable ETL/ELT processes, developing cloud-native solutions on Google Cloud Platform (GCP), and ensuring data quality and governance across platforms. You will work with modern big data technologies such as Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, and Airflow while leveraging AI-assisted development tools to enhance productivity and code quality. The role requires strong programming skills in Python or Java, experience with SQL query optimization, and familiarity with containerization and infrastructure-as-code tools like Docker and Terraform. This position is ideal for someone passionate about data engineering at a large-scale enterprise environment focused on continuous improvement and collaboration across cross-functional teams.

What you'll do

  • Design, develop, and maintain scalable data pipelines for business intelligence.
  • Build and optimize ETL processes to ingest and transform data from various sources.
  • Develop cloud-native data solutions on Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
  • Ensure data quality, integrity, consistency, security, and governance across platforms.
  • Support both batch and real-time data processing patterns using modern technologies.
  • Contribute to engineering best practices including code reviews and CI/CD automation.

What we're looking for

  • 1+ year of experience in Data Engineering or related field
  • Strong programming skills in Python, Java, Scala, or similar language
  • Expertise in SQL development and query optimization
  • Experience with ETL/ELT pipelines and data integration workflows
  • Knowledge of modern data lake and warehouse architectures
  • Hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) data services
  • Familiarity with workflow orchestration tools like Apache Airflow

More like this

Similar roles

AI & Data Engineer

IBM

New York, NY 4 days ago
Java Spring Boot Docker Kubernetes AWS Git Jenkins PostgreSQL MySQL Redis RabbitMQ CI/CD Swagger JUnit

AI & Data Engineer

IBM

San Jose, CA 4 days ago
Jenkins Git Docker Python PostgreSQL AWS Kubernetes Terraform CI/CD Swagger Ansible Prometheus Grafana

AI & Data Engineer

IBM

Raleigh, NC 4 days ago
Java Spring Boot Docker Kubernetes AWS Git Jenkins CI/CD Maven PostgreSQL MySQL Swagger JUnit Selenium ELK Stack Prometheus Grafana

AI & Data Engineer

IBM

San Francisco, CA 4 days ago
Java Spring Boot Docker Kubernetes AWS Git Jenkins CI/CD Maven PostgreSQL Swagger JUnit Mockito RESTful APIs JSON Linux Nginx Selenium

AI & Data Engineer

IBM

Austin, TX 4 days ago
Jenkins Git Docker Python AWS Kubernetes Terraform PostgreSQL Redis CI/CD Ansible Prometheus Grafana Selenium JUnit Bash Ubuntu Linux

AI & Data Engineer

IBM

Chicago, IL 4 days ago
Jenkins Git Docker Python PostgreSQL AWS Kubernetes Terraform CI/CD Swagger Ansible Prometheus Grafana