Current Interns Only- Technology Leadership Program -Summer 2026 Intern Posting

Summary

Target is a company dedicated to helping families discover the joy of everyday life. The Technology Leadership Program is designed to develop leadership and technology skills through rotations in Target Tech teams, where interns will work alongside experienced Engineers and receive hands-on training.

Responsibilities

• Use your technology acumen to provide input to assist with evaluation of new technologies and contribute to the design, lifecycle management, and total cost of ownership of services
• Contribute to research and proof-of-concept initiatives for new technologies and assist with code and design review, as well as write, organize, and maintain code based on designs
• Deliver high-performance, scalable, repeatable, and secure deliverables with guidance
• Participate in structured construction, automation, debugging, and implementation activities, ensuring architectural and operational requirements and best practices are met
• Participate in disaster recovery planning and disaster recovery activities and participate in functional integration and regression testing and ability to automate test scripts
• Resolve frequently encountered technical issues and monitors systems capacity with minimal assistance, and search and understand metadata about various data sources and metrics

Skills

• Four-year degree with strong academic performance, or equivalent experience
• Problem solver who can tackle complex technical challenges
• Demonstrates proficiency in at least one programming language
• Demonstrates familiarity with current and emerging technologies in own scope of responsibility, and develops ability to apply these technologies
• Demonstrates and continuously builds upon domain-specific knowledge
• Understands the concepts of distributed programming and applies it to their domain
• Possesses working knowledge of transaction codes/master data used within specific domain and participates in building custom solutions in the package
• Stays current with new and evolving technologies via formal training and self-directed education
• Like collaborating with a team and possesses strong written and verbal communication skills
• Relevant work or internship experience is highly preferred
• Open to relocation to Minneapolis

Qualifications

Must Haves

• Four-year degree with strong academic performance, or equivalent experience
• Problem solver who can tackle complex technical challenges
• Demonstrates proficiency in at least one programming language
• Demonstrates familiarity with current and emerging technologies in own scope of responsibility, and develops ability to apply these technologies
• Demonstrates and continuously builds upon domain-specific knowledge
• Understands the concepts of distributed programming and applies it to their domain
• Possesses working knowledge of transaction codes/master data used within specific domain and participates in building custom solutions in the package
• Stays current with new and evolving technologies via formal training and self-directed education
• Like collaborating with a team and possesses strong written and verbal communication skills

Nice to Haves

• Relevant work or internship experience is highly preferred
• Open to relocation to Minneapolis

Benefits

• 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