(IND) Group Director, Software Engineering

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Job summary:

Join our dynamic and forward-thinking engineering organization as our Group Director Software Engineering relating directly to the Walmart’s Marketplace and Walmart Fulfillment Services (WFS). where you’ll be at the forefront of driving innovation, spearheading transformative projects and foundational improvements. We are seeking a visionary leader who can seamlessly bridge the gap between business asks and architecting the technical landscape to deliver. Your projects will have tremendous impact, be scalable, and at the center of platform modernization efforts in Walmart’s People Technology organization.

About Team:

Join a dynamic engineering team focused on enhancing the seller experience and driving the growth of Walmart's Marketplace and Walmart Fulfillment Services (WFS). As part of Walmart eCommerce, you'll play a key role in reshaping the future of shopping by developing innovative solutions that impact millions of shoppers. Walmart Marketplace is a community of trusted sellers offering high-quality products and exceptional customer service—an essential component of Walmart's growth strategy. Through WFS, sellers can leverage Walmart's advanced fulfillment infrastructure to streamline operations and improve delivery to customers. In this fast-paced, innovation-driven environment, you'll collaborate with cross-functional teams to build scalable solutions that push the boundaries of eCommerce and fulfillment, driving Walmart's digital growth.

If you’re inspired by the opportunity to solve complex problems at scale and make a difference for our customers and members, join us.

What you'll do:

The Group Director of Software Engineering will be a pivotal technology leader, overseeing a global team of engineers and driving the development of next-generation platforms for both Walmart Marketplace and Walmart Fulfillment Services (WFS). Key responsibilities for this role include:

• Leading a team of senior engineering leaders and architects to design, build, and maintain the next-generation, multi-market technology platform for Marketplace and WFS on a global scale.
• Collaborating with product, business, and operations leaders to define, prioritize, and execute the product and technology roadmap, ensuring alignment with broader business objectives.
• Building and nurturing a world-class engineering organization, including recruiting, mentoring, and developing senior architects and engineering leaders to foster a high-performing team.
• Proactively identifying and addressing customer issues, ensuring continuous improvement in platform performance, reliability, and user experience.
• Cultivating a culture of innovation, platform thinking, and engineering excellence, driving continuous improvement in both product development and operational efficiency.

This role requires a visionary leader who can balance technical expertise with strategic business acumen, and who is passionate about shaping the future of Walmart's global eCommerce and fulfillment technologies.

What you'll bring:

• Domain expertise in running large-scale Marketplace systems with a strong emphasis on high availability; experience in eCommerce platforms is highly preferred.
• 10+ years of experience managing large engineering organizations (200+ engineers), with a proven track record of leading senior engineering leaders and architects.
• In-depth knowledge of large-scale distributed system technologies
• Exceptional collaboration and communication skills, with the ability to build strong relationships across cross-functional teams and senior stakeholders.
• Proven ability to influence across functional boundaries, driving consensus and aligning diverse teams toward common goals.
• Demonstrated success in hiring, mentoring, and growing top-tier engineering talent—creating high-performance, high-impact teams.
• BS or MS degree in Computer Science (or related technical field) with 20+ years of industry experience in engineering and technology leadership.
• Prior experience in high-growth startups within eCommerce or Marketplace environments—ideally with a focus on scaling and innovating fast-paced platforms.
• A strong bias toward innovation, with a passion for continuously evolving technology solutions and introducing new approaches to solve complex problems.
• Customer and seller empathy—deep understanding of both customer and seller needs, with the ability to create technology solutions that enhance the user and seller experience alike.

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 2.2 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 sis 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.

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