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...

What you'll do...

About The Team

The Customer Accounts & Membership team drives Walmart Ecommerce and has two main objectives:

Enable Unified Access: Provide users with a seamless, secure, and unified access to Walmart across all touchpoints.Develop Membership Services: Create an outstanding membership/subscription service, aiming to become the preferred choice for customers.

The Accounts team at IDC Bangalore addresses customer, associate, and business needs. This team is part of Walmart International, which operates over 5,900 retail units under 55 banners in 26 countries, including Africa, Argentina, Canada, Central America, Chile, China, India, Japan, Mexico, and the United Kingdom.

What will you Do?

Distinguished Software Engineer role is a hands-on role that support architectural designs and advisory for retail domain areas owned by teams in IDC. This is a highly technical role where the right candidate can go deep into specific application and services, and work on higher-level multi-domain system designs.

This specific architect role will spend up to half of their time supporting specific teams and initiatives.

As part of the eComm initiative, the team needs to build an Open stack platform from grounds-up to support the business strategy to grow from one level to another level turnover in Ecomm.

The remainder of time will be prioritized on horizontal improvements that benefit all teams. Examples include process simplification and automation and establishing foundational standards.

Direct support and engagement with engineering teams will improve designs, reduce complexity, and contribute to adoption of better practices and strengthened expertise. Contributions towards larger systemic decoupling, and better shared standards will help elevate the entire engineering org and improve the overall quality, stability, and availability of our production systems. Direct team engagement across many domains will increase networking which further elevates the overall org. This role has a huge impact to the business as the new designed platform will power the growth of the market to the multi-billion dollar.

Some key responsibilities include:

Lead and inspire high-performing engineering teams in eComm space to build and scale highly reliable, secure, and performant platform / products and frameworks.Own the technical design, realization and Devops for a complex micro services ecosystem for a large-scale ecommerce.Drive a results-oriented culture with a strong focus on engineering excellence, execution and propagate build for scale mindset.Develop trusted partnerships with developers, partners, and architecture leaders to drive optimized platform / product delivery.Lead complex technical and strategic discussions that involve multiple personas including engineering, architect, product, customer, and other stakeholders.Drive development and designs/solutions involving the integration of varied technologies and products to meet business objectives.Bring a strong industry perspective that can help shape and evolve the internal developer experience to be as good or better than other leading technology organizations.Drive effective, mature Agile practices and continuous execution improvements within your teams.Leverage technology from Global solutions existing in Walmart ecosystem to build / leverage scalable and innovative solutions.High sense of urgency to solve problems and in executing them with extreme ownership.Attitude to enjoy in a fun, fast-paced environment.

What you will bring

15+ years of experience of engineering experience with a focus large scale product development in open stack and microservices delivery environmentShould have a keen eye for new technology trends and how they can be used to help grow the business, and a proven ability to be a game changer.A technical expert with in-depth knowledge in building distributed systems and products using hybrid cloud technology handling massive amounts of data. Should have built a complex microservices based platform or product.Strong knowledge aboutAzure or GCPRetail domainDigital transformationStrong technical background with the capability of being hands-on as required.Ability to set and drive technical vision and provide technical mentorship to all levels of engineering talent. Should have established credibility as a central resource, utilized by teams to seek advisory on complex technical issues and projects.Depth focus and an attitude to understand and resolve complex technical issues.Experience of working with globally distributed teams.Excellent interpersonal skills, good with people, ability to negotiate.

Preferred experiences and exposures:

Understand the product and project management space with Agile methodologies.Have good experience in performance instrumentation, tuning, and optimization of large-scale products.Have good knowledge in design patterns while building cloud-native products.Experience in the eCommerce domain will be a huge positive.

Tech Skills - Languages - Java/J2EE, Spring boot, BIGDATA, HFM

⁃ Micro Services Architecture, Event-Driven Architectures

⁃ Cloud - Azure, GCP

⁃ Messaging Queues - Kafka, RabbitMQ, Apache

- Typescript/JavaScript, React, Redux, NodeJS, HTML, CSS

About Global Tech

Imagine working in an environment where one line of code can make life easier for hundreds of millions of people and put a smile on their face. That’s what we do at Walmart Global Tech. We’re a team of 15,000+ software engineers, data scientists and service professionals within Walmart, the world’s largest retailer, delivering innovations that improve how our customers shop and empower our 2.3 million associates. To others, innovation looks like an app, service or some code, but Walmart has always been about people. People are why we innovate, and people power our innovations. Being human led is our true disruption.

Ways of Working

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.

Walmart Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer – By Choice. We believe we are best equipped to help our associates, customers and the communities we serve to live better when we really know them. That means understanding, respecting and valuing diversity- 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 and6 years’ experience in software engineering or related area.
Option 2: 8 years’ experience in software engineering or related area.

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 4 years' experience in software engineering or related area

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