Position Summary...Provides overall direction by analyzing business objectives and customer needs; developing, communicating, building support for, and implementing business strategies, plans, and practices; analyzing costs and forecasts and incorporating them into business plans; determining and supporting resource requirements; evaluating operational processes; measuring outcomes to ensure desired results; identifying and capitalizing on improvement opportunities; promoting a customer environment; and demonstrating adaptability and sponsoring continuous learning. Develops and implements strategies to attract and maintain a highly skilled and engaged workforce by diagnosing capability gaps; recruiting, selecting, and developing talent; supporting mentorship, workforce development, and succession planning; and leveraging the capabilities of new and existing talent. Cultivates an environment where associates respect and adhere to company standards of integrity and ethics by integrating these values into all programs and practices; developing consequences for violations or non-compliance; and supporting the Open Door Policy. Develops and leverages internal and external partnerships and networks to maximize the achievement of business goals by sponsoring and leading key community outreach and involvement initiatives; engaging key stakeholders in the development, execution, and evaluation of appropriate business plans and initiatives; and supporting associate efforts in these areas.

What you'll do...

About the Team

Enterprise Business Services @ IDC Bangalore and Chennai in India are focused on data driven, highly optimized products and implementations in the areas of Finance, Procurement, Human Resources and Retail business functions for multiple Walmart markets with open stack technologies and other ERP tools.
 

As part of the EBS Associate Experience and Digital Transformation (AEDT) team, you build platforms, systems, and tools that simplify associates' daily lives and enable greater productivity overall. One of our primary functions is building the associate super-agent platform, Squiggly. This platform provides a single pane of glass for associates to discover and interact with all Walmart agentic experience. We also build systems and agents to delight associates in their day-to-day lives, be it help finding summarizing their day, booking meetings, searching for information across Walmart, etc. This team is at the forefront of transforming how work is done at Walmart.
 

What you'll do:

· Drive Software architecture and deliver scalable Distributed systems.

· Technical leadership in building a complex open stack microservices based platform or product that are highly reliable, and scalable.

· Provide guidance in applying the right architectural design pattern for the modernization of the applications by analyzing the gaps between existing architecture and new business requirements.

· Drive automation using more adoption and maturity on the CICD stage gates for the applications.

· Drive implementation of telemetry features based on the domain requirements to improve the overall operational excellence of the application.

· Drive strategic technical decisions to transform our current SaaS products into home grown full-stack products.

· Establish durable ways of working with product peers and other internal engineering teams to drive our product roadmap.

· Build and coach a team of managers and senior ICs and align their strengths to outcomes.

· Foster a culture of innovation and operational excellence.

What you’ll bring:

· Deep working knowledge of all aspects of Cloud native distributed system development.

· Technical Proficiency in one or more of the languages such as Java, Python, React Native, Node JS, React JS, GraphQL

· Experience working with micro-services architecture, distributed systems, and applying design patterns.

· Experience in all areas of engineering including DevOps, Chaos Engineering, SRE, and on-call rotations to assure service availability and operational excellence.

· Experience managing software development engineers, leaders, architects and leading engineering projects, guiding engineering teams on engineering excellence & solid system design.

· Ability to clearly articulate a technical vision and energize engineers towards outcomes.

Additional Comments

Minimum Qualifications (Manager's Ideal Candidate Must-Haves (skills required))

· Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science or related field degree and minimum of 10+ years’ experience in software development.

· Minimum 6-8 years of experience building highly scalable, high performance, responsive software Applications.

· Proven industry experience with large scale distributed systems

Preferred Qualifications (Manager's Preferred Qualifications (3-5 "nice to haves")

· Highly technical hands-on, proficient in designing Tier 0 systems and an effective people leader

· Experience building resilient Tier 0 production system operations (logging, telemetry, alerting etc.)

· Attitude to thrive in a fun, fast-paced start-up like environment.

· Excellent communication and problem-solving skills

· Has ambition and vigor to add value to a rapidly growing development team.

About Walmart Global Tech
Imagine working in an environment where one line of code can make life easier for hundreds of millions of people.  That’s what we do at Walmart Global Tech. We’re a team of software engineers, data scientists, cybersecurity expert's and service professionals within the world’s leading retailer who make an epic impact and are at the forefront of the next retail disruption. People are why we innovate, and people power our innovations. We are people-led and tech-empowered.
 

We train our team in the skillsets of the future and bring in experts like you to help us grow. We have roles for those chasing their first opportunity as well as those looking for the opportunity that will define their career. Here, you can kickstart a great career in tech, gain new skills and experience for virtually every industry, or leverage your expertise to innovate at scale, impact millions and reimagine the future of retail.

Flexible, hybrid work
We use a hybrid way of working with primary in office presence coupled with an optimal mix of virtual presence. We use our campuses to collaborate and be together in person, as business needs require and for development and networking opportunities. This approach helps us make quicker decisions, remove location barriers across our global team, be more flexible in our personal lives.

Benefits

Beyond our great compensation package, you can receive incentive awards for your performance. Other great perks include a host of best-in-class benefits maternity and parental leave, PTO, health benefits, and much more.

Belonging

We aim to create a culture where every associate feels valued for who they are, rooted in respect for the individual. Our goal is to foster a sense of belonging, to create opportunities for all our associates, customers and suppliers, and to be a Walmart for everyone.
 

At Walmart, our vision is "everyone included." By fostering a workplace culture where everyone is—and feels—included, everyone wins. Our associates and customers reflect the makeup of all 19 countries where we operate. By making Walmart a welcoming place where all people feel like they belong, we’re able to engage associates, strengthen our business, improve our ability to serve customers, and support the communities where we operate.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Walmart, Inc., is an Equal Opportunities Employer – By Choice. We believe we are best equipped to help our associates, customers and the communities we serve live better when we really know them. That means understanding, respecting and valuing unique styles, experiences, identities, ideas and opinions – while being inclusive of all people.

Minimum Qualifications...

Outlined below are the required minimum qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no minimum qualifications.

Minimum Qualifications:Option 1: Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or related area and7 years’ experience in software engineering or related area.
Option 2: 9 years’ experience in software engineering or related area.



4 years' supervisory experience.

Preferred Qualifications...

Outlined below are the optional preferred qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no preferred qualifications.

Master’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or related area and 5 years' experience in software engineering or related area.

Primary Location...Pardhanani Wilshire Ii, Cessna Business Park, Kadubeesanahalli Village, Varthur Hobli , India