Senior Manager, Software Engineering

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What you'll do...

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. 

Team and Position Summary:  

Enterprise Business Services is invested in building a compact, robust organization that includes service operations and technology solutions for Finance, People, Associate Digital Experience.  

Our team is responsible for design, development, and operations of large-scale data systems operating at petabytes scale. We focus on creating pipelines, curating and aggregating huge data, distributed spark infrastructure. We interact with multiple teams across the company to provide scalable robust technical solutions.  

This role will focus on Data engineering and ETL development. A majority of the transformation logic will be in Databricks. A strong understanding of creating workflow is needed. This role will assist in ETL design leveraging standard Data Warehousing techniques and functional programming techniques. 

What you will do:

Lead a team of Top Notch Engineers to successfully build and deploy cutting edge platforms for FinTech.

• Focus on goal completion and support teams to overcome the challenges in implementation
• Work with senior leadership to chart out the future roadmap of the products
• Improve, optimize and identify opportunities for efficient software development processes
• Hire, Develop and Retain a strong team of software engineers.
• Exhibit strong leadership and communication skills to collaborate with product, engineering and management teams across different geographic locations
• Promote and support company policies, procedures, mission, values, and standards of ethics and integrity.
• Interact with Walmart engineering teams across geographies to leverage expertise and contribute to the tech community
• You will come up with quality, best practices, other Non-functional standards, guide the teams to adhere to the standards.

What youll bring:

Bachelors/masters degree in computer science, engineering, or related field.

• 11 years to 18 years of relevant experience in building highly resilient, highly scalable systems
• Must be able and willing to think and act strategically and tactically
• Strong oral and written communication skills are crucial
• 3+ years of leadership/management experience with a team of 10+ engineers.
• A good understanding of CS Fundamentals, Microservices, Data Structures, Algorithms ; Problem Solving
• Hands on experience with Java (Must have) and experience of working in cloud based solutions is desirable
• Should be hands on writing/reviewing design ; code
• Understand the product and project management space with Agile methodologies.
• CI/CD development environments/tools: Git, Maven, Jenkins.
• Demonstrated end-to-end ownership for development and design of least one cloud-based project - Experience in building microservices, data pipelines, extensible platforms is desirable.
• Strong desire to drive change, and ability to adapt to change quickly. Proficient in new and emerging technologies.
• Ability to balance the long-term "big picture" and short-term implications of design decisions.
• Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills - including negotiation, facilitation, and consensus building skills; ability to influence and persuade, without direct control.
• Mentoring/coaching Senior staff engineers and other Engineers.
• Focus on reusability, frameworks, patterns and configurations tools for faster development.

Additional Qualifications:  

• Large scale distributed systems experience, including scalability and fault tolerance.  
• Exposure to cloud infrastructure, such as Open Stack, Azure, GCP, or AWS 
• A continuous drive to explore, improve, enhance, automate and optimize systems and tools.  
• Strong computer science fundamentals in data structures and algorithms  
• Exposure to information retrieval, statistics, and machine learning.  
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.  
• Good understanding of metadata driven development 
• Excellent problem solving, Critical and Analytical thinking skills 

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.

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