Director, Software Engineering

Position Summary...

What you'll do...

About Team

The Enterprise People Technology team supports the successful deployment and adoption of new People technology across the enterprise. As a Fortune #1 company, our work impacts millions of associates globally. We strive to continuously improve people technology and products to help managers and associates so they can focus on what matters most - supporting our customers and members. People Technology is one of the major segments of Walmart Global Tech’s Enterprise Business Services, which is invested in building a compact, robust organization that includes service operations and technology solutions for Finance, People, and the Associate Digital Experience.

What you will do

• Lead senior managers and a group of highly talented senior engineers who build on our Open-Stack distributed platforms, responsible for designing and delivering world-class applications
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams in IDC and the USA to define and execute the product roadmap.
• Develop and maintain engineering processes and best practices of CI/CD
• Manage and mentor team members, providing guidance and support to achieve their full potential.
• Foster a culture of innovation, creativity, and continuous improvement.
• Collaborate with other departments, including product management, design to ensure alignment and achieve business goals.
• Manage timelines, and resource allocation to ensure on-time and on-budget delivery of projects.
• Stay up to date with the latest technologies and trends
• Act as a thought leader for engineering within the organization and in the broader technical community.

What you'll bring:

• Deep Technical Expertise:  Should have extensive knowledge in the field of Open-Stack Engineering (JAVA, REACT). This expertise is crucial for driving innovation, solving complex technical problems, and providing guidance on best practices.
• Leadership and Influence: The ability to lead by example, mentor junior engineers, and influence decision-making processes at all levels of the organization is vital. This includes promoting a culture of technical excellence, encouraging continuous learning, and fostering collaboration across teams.
• Strategic Thinking: A strategic mindset to align technical initiatives with business goals is essential. This involves understanding the broader business context, anticipating future trends and challenges, and making decisions that balance short-term needs with long-term objectives.
• Excellent Problem-Solving Skills: You are expected to tackle some of the most challenging problems in the organization. This requires exceptional analytical skills, creativity, and the ability to develop innovative solutions that are scalable, efficient, and effective.
• Effective Communication and Collaboration: Strong communication skills are necessary to articulate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and effectively negotiate and resolve conflicts. This also includes the ability to listen to and incorporate diverse perspectives and feedback.

Additional Comments

Minimum Qualifications (Candidate Must-Haves (skills required))

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field and minimum 15 – 18 years’ experience in software engineering Or master’s degree in computer science or related field and 12-15 years of work experience
• Minimum 5-7 years of people manager experience (including managing leaders) in driving and retaining a high-performance team.
• Minimum 6-8 years of experience building highly scalable, high performance, responsive software Applications.
• Highly technical hands-on and an effective people leader
• Proven industry experience with large scale distributed systems
• Experience building resilient Tier 0 products with operational excellence mindset (logging, telemetry, alerting etc.)

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

• 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 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.

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