Group Director, Software Engineering

About Team: 

The Group Director, Cloud & Data, will lead a global team of nearly 500 engineers, focusing on driving forward architectures, vision, strategy, and execution for cloud and data-related platform products and technologies. The leader will provide technology leadership in AI/ML, GenAI, Big Data, and Data Management areas and align all Global Technology functions. The role involves creating an innovative culture, growing and scaling services across Walmart, and building high-performing teams. The leader will lead AI/ML and GenAI initiatives, maintain AI governance, oversee big data strategies, execute the Data Management Platform strategy, and lead database and cloud engineering, product, user design and machine learning teams in India. The role also requires fostering operational excellence and serving as the site leader for Cloud and Data Platform teams in India. 

What you’ll Do: 

The Group Director, Cloud & Data will have global responsibility for driving forward architectures, vision, strategy, roadmap, and execution for cloud & data-related platform products and technologies. This position will provide technology leadership, guidance, blueprints, best practices, and expertise as the global engineering lead for AI/ML, GenAI, Big Data, and Data Management areas. The role will also drive alignment between all Global Technology functions. All cloud & data teams in India will report to the Group Director. 

Responsibilities  

• Create a Culture of Innovation: Foster an environment of innovation and raise the bar for engineering excellence across the Cloud and Data Platform teams. 

• Grow and Scale: Focus on delivering platforms and services to be leveraged across various business/verticals in Walmart, providing best-of-breed, cost-optimized, scalable, and extensible platforms. 

• Build High-Performing Teams: Attract, grow, and retain top talent. Foster an environment of innovation and autonomy. 

• AI/ML and GenAI: Lead the development and implementation of AI/ML and GenAI initiatives. Define strategy and develop an AI/ML Platform for Walmart aimed at improving developer productivity and accelerating time-to-market for features, utilizing AI/ML to address business challenges. 

• AI Governance: Maintain governance frameworks for AI initiatives. 

• Big Data and Data Processing: Oversee big data and data processing strategies to optimize data utilization. 

• Data Management: Own, contribute and execute the Data Management Platform strategy (Metadata, Data Quality, Data Governance and Data Categorization/Classification) for Walmart by collaborating with functional leader across Walmart. 

• Databases and Cloud Teams: Lead the teams in India responsible for databases and cloud infrastructure. 

• Operational Excellence: Foster a culture and establish mechanics to put customer-centric and product-focused thinking into practice.​ Reduce Technical Debt, lower operational costs (by building scalable, resilient systems and devops rigor), streamline offerings to improve org agility with optimized vendor and cloud cost. 

• Site Leadership: Serve as the site leader for Cloud and Data Platform teams in India. 

What you'll bring: 

Extensive experience in cloud and data platform technologies. 

• Proven track record in technology leadership, particularly in AI/ML, GenAI, Big Data, and Data Management. 

• Strong ability to drive innovation and engineering excellence. 

• Experience in growing and scaling technical organizations. 

• Demonstrated success in building high-performing, autonomous teams. 

• Strong leadership skills with the ability to manage global teams. 

Our Best Leaders: 

Build & Develop Talent 

• Build a management team that has the right balance of skills, experiences, and values. Drive associate engagement and commitment. Create a discipline and focus around developing talent. Build organizations that set aggressive goals and achieve results. Build the talent pipeline in a way that contributes to the company’s business and talent objectives. 

Focus on Diversity & Inclusion 

• Promote diversity of ideas and perspectives. Improve value of diverse teams by encouraging objectivity, open communication, and respect. Support strategies and initiatives that attract/retain diverse and inclusive talent. Actively support diversity goal programs. 

Strategic & Total Company Perspective 

• Think globally – recognizes the impact of global forces on the business (e.g., economic, political, technological, etc.) Communicate a clear vision and strategy for the business. Understand the next generation customer and competition. Pursue opportunities for global leverage. Understand and apply customer insights and analysis in driving change. Act with agility and speed to put new insights into practice while minimizing disruption and rework. Apply merchant mindset with a specific focus on digital trends/technologies to meet emerging consumer needs in the marketplace. 

Live our values 

• Model company culture in everyday behavior. Create an environment of trust and collaboration. Earn the trust and respect of others. Practice servant leadership by putting the interests of others before self. Communicate the company culture through storytelling and teaching. Promote the highest standards of ethics, integrity, and compliance. Encourage experimentation to drive innovation as the marketplace changes. 

Innovate & grow 

• Create an environment that supports innovation and reasonable risk taking. Actively and rapidly embrace change by experimenting with and prototyping new tools and methods. Leverage data and analytics to generate insights and make informed decisions. Drive the removal of redundancy from processes while minimizing the ability to revisit finalized decisions. 

Accelerate digital transformation 

• Demonstrates understanding of how digital trends affect our business. Stays up-to-date on digital trends while proactively identifying new ways to solve business problems using technology and other digital tools. Leads by example by using new digital tools in the day-to-day management of the business. Provides access to leading technology innovations to their organization. 

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 20,000+ 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. 

The above information has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed in the role.  It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job. The full Job Description can be made available as part of the hiring process.