Director of Engineering - AI Security

Target • Brooklyn Park, NC

5d • Hybrid

About The Position

The Director of Engineering will be responsible for the technology decisions that enable the business plan and will manage an engineering team in an agile environment. This role involves providing guidance to engineers and making relevant technology solution decisions related to complex and/or new wave technology products. Success in this position requires a strong and innovative approach to problem-solving, great technical leadership, excellent communication, flexibility, and a self-motivated working style with attention to detail. The role is hands-on with technology, requiring design and development of highly scalable systems while leading engineering teams. The AI Security domain is a new and growing area at Target, and this role will lead a dedicated team focused on creating and building out a strategy, roadmap, and capabilities for secure GenAI technologies. The Director will collaborate with technical and leadership teams across Target Tech to lead a team of security architects, ensuring systems are designed and built securely. Responsibilities include identifying security risks, developing mitigation strategies, integrating security functions and controls, evaluating proposed architectures, and designing secure architectures. This is a highly technical role requiring a deep understanding of security risks, controls, mitigations, and standards, with a collaborative and advisory function to support the enterprise in building and modifying platforms and systems. The role also demands strong interpersonal skills for enterprise-wide collaboration and exceptional communication for open and cooperative partnerships. The Director will drive best practices, ensure the development of high-quality security solutions/technologies, advocate for standards, determine technology choices, and build and manage a team of high-caliber engineers. They will manage cross-product technical dependencies, handle conflict resolution, and advocate for standards around technologies, frameworks, design patterns, processes, and guiding values of the domain architecture. The role also involves inspiring a strong culture of engineering through meetups and contributing to the technical community.

Requirements

• Four-year degree in computer science or equivalent
• 10+ years of hands-on experience in technology, with extensive knowledge of cybersecurity domains including Information Protection, Cloud Security, Networking Security, IAM, Automation and SIEM
• 5+ years of managing teams with a strong track record of delivery for cross-functional products
• Experience working in an agile environment (e.g. user stories, iterative development, etc.) including continuous integration and continuous delivery practices
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present complex technical information in a clear and concise manner to variety of audiences
• Strong technical knowledge and background with an understanding of open-source frameworks
• Strong sense of ownership and problem-solving skills
• Polyglot programmer comfortable in many languages across different platforms
• Demonstrated curiosity and ability to learn
• Expertise in containerization technologies and tools
• Domain expertise in AI/ML
• Seeks out cross-team collaboration opportunities
• Stays current on relevant technologies with self-directed learning
• Excellent written and verbal interpersonal skills with strong presentation abilities
• Proven history of effectively utilizing a variety of security tools and technologies across diverse environments.
• Good understanding of security management workflows in large enterprise organizations and complex environments
• Has a good understanding of the current threat landscape and the challenges that most organizations are facing
• In-depth knowledge of security frameworks, standards, and best practices (e.g., NIST, ISO/IEC 27001)
• Strong understanding of network security, cryptography, and secure software development
• Experience with security technologies, such as firewalls, IDS/IPS, SIEM, and DLP
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills

Nice To Haves

• 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

Responsibilities

• Drive technical decision making, adhering to Target platform architecture and other enterprise considerations.
• Focus on team management and development.
• Establish good stakeholder communication and work closely with partner teams.
• Help drive requirements while being a strong advocate of efficient and secure coding practices across engineers.
• Build and manage a team of high performing architects and provide leadership, coaching, motivation, and recommend staffing levels, operating procedures, tools, and systems for the team.
• Provide career development and performance management to a team of architects.
• Collaborate with system designers to integrate security requirements into the design phase of IT systems.
• Develop and maintain security architecture documentation, including security models, frameworks, and diagrams.
• Ensure that security architecture aligns with the organization’s business objectives and regulatory requirements.
• Understand security risks in order to identify potential vulnerabilities and threats.
• Develop risk mitigation strategies and recommend appropriate security controls.
• Design and implement security solutions, including firewalls, encryption protocols, and access control mechanisms.
• Collaborate with development and operations teams to ensure secure creation and deployment of IT systems.
• Provide guidance on secure coding practices.
• Prioritize driving highly impactful changes that improve the business.
• Conduct full-stack architecture reviews of products and platforms.
• Provide expertise on information security for complex systems and applications in cloud and on-prem environments.
• Design security reference architectures and create implementation/configuration guides.
• Provide expertise on creation and implementation of security controls with an emphasis on cloud technologies.
• Efficiently assess and communicate risk accurately while negotiating priorities with cross-domain stakeholders.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to perform advanced security analysis on complex cloud systems, identifying gaps while contributing to design solutions and security requirements.

Benefits

• Comprehensive health benefits and programs, which may include medical, vision, dental, life insurance and more
• 401(k)
• Employee discount
• Short term disability
• Long term disability
• Paid sick leave
• Paid national holidays
• Paid vacation

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director
• Education Level: Associate degree