Lead Engineer – Cloud Security (Security Governance)

The pay range is $132,000.00 - $238,000.00 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. 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 . Working 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. As a Lead Engineer on the Cloud Security team, you'll be the senior technical owner of the engineering workflows and services that make cloud security governance practical at Target scale. You'll help teams understand security requirements, onboard to Cloud Security capabilities, adopt usable controls, and move findings and exception requests through clear, evidence-based processes. You'll build the automation and operational mechanisms that connect security intent with accountable decisions and action. Beyond deep technical expertise, you have a strong bias for action and a builder's mindset. Cloud security governance sits between security requirements, the capabilities that enforce them, and the product and platform teams who need to use them. You are comfortable operating in that realm – translating approved requirements into clear workflows, engineering reliable onboarding and exception-management capabilities, improving adoption through evidence and feedback, and partnering with decision owners so risks are reviewed and handled consistently. You have the engineering credibility to set technical direction for other engineers as a hands-on IC, and the communication and partnership skills to make governance work well across Target. Expect to: • Serve as the senior technical lead and hands-on owner of Cloud Security governance engineering — setting technical direction, standards, and a roadmap for the workflows, integrations, and automation that other engineers and partners use. • Design, build, and operate a consistent lifecycle for cloud security exceptions: intake, completeness checks, control and asset context, risk and impact information, compensating controls, accountable decision owner, review date, expiry or renewal, and closure evidence. • Make exception requests traceable and decision-ready. Route them to the appropriate policy, architecture, business, or risk-acceptance authority; track decisions and conditions; and escalate overdue or incomplete requests through agreed paths. This role enables and records decisions but does not independently approve policy deviations or accept risk. • Engineer workflows that connect security findings, control requirements, exceptions, remediation ownership,