Director, Software Engineering

About Team:

This area owns the technology portfolio that connects demand intelligence, inventory positioning, and product flow across Walmart International. Through SMART Forecasting, GeoDemand, Placements, IO2, and O3, the organization enables the capabilities that determine what customers are likely to need, where inventory should be positioned, and how product should flow efficiently through the supply chain.

The team’s purpose is to build an intelligent, scalable, and connected replenishment ecosystem that turns demand signals into better inventory and flow decisions. By bringing together software engineering, data, machine learning, forecasting, and optimization, the team seeks to improve product availability and inventory productivity while reducing variability and creating greater efficiency across suppliers, distribution centers, stores, clubs, and fulfillment networks.

What you'll do:

• Lead the engineering strategy and execution for the IO2, O3, GeoDemand, Placements, and SMART Forecasting portfolio, connecting demand intelligence, inventory positioning, and product flow.
• Define and drive the technical vision, architecture, and modernization strategy for highly scalable, business-critical platforms.
• Build a more integrated replenishment ecosystem, ensuring forecasting, geographic demand, placement, and flow capabilities work together to deliver end-to-end outcomes.
• Partner closely with Product, Data Science, Supply Chain Operations, Architecture, and market teams to translate business priorities into scalable technology solutions.
• Lead the engineering of data-, machine learning-, forecasting-, and optimization-driven capabilities that improve how inventory decisions are made.
• Drive engineering excellence and operational health, including reliability, scalability, observability, security, automation, performance, and production readiness.
• Establish strong technical standards and architecture guardrails while enabling teams to move quickly and make effective engineering decisions.
• Manage complex cross-platform and cross-organizational dependencies, proactively removing barriers and aligning teams around shared outcomes.
• Lead technology modernization and simplification, reducing technical debt and creating platforms that can be more easily adopted and scaled across international markets.
• Own execution against the portfolio roadmap, improving delivery predictability, quality, and accountability across teams.
• Lead through engineering managers and senior technical leaders, creating clear accountability while empowering teams to own solutions and outcomes.
• Recruit, develop, coach, and retain strong engineering talent, while building a healthy leadership pipeline and opportunities for technical career growth.
• Foster a culture of innovation, continuous improvement, experimentation, and responsible adoption of AI and emerging technologies.
• Communicate technology strategy, investment needs, risks, trade-offs, and outcomes clearly to senior business and technology leaders.
• Maintain a strong connection between technology investments and measurable outcomes such as product availability, inventory productivity, flow stability, and supply-chain efficiency.

What you'll bring:

• Large-scale software & distributed systems – Strong technical background designing and operating highly scalable, resilient, cloud-based platforms and distributed systems.
• Data-intensive platforms – Deep understanding of large-scale data processing, streaming/batch architectures, data quality, and the engineering patterns required to turn large datasets into operational decisions.
• AI/ML-enabled systems – Experience engineering production platforms that operationalize machine learning, forecasting, and optimization models, including the partnership model between Software Engineering and Data Science.
• Modern architecture & platform engineering – Ability to establish architecture strategy, APIs/contracts, platform standards, observability, reliability, scalability, security, and engineering guardrails across interconnected systems.
• Technical strategy & modernization – Proven ability to modernize complex technology ecosystems while continuing to operate business-critical capabilities and progressively reducing legacy dependencies.
• End-to-end systems thinking – Ability to understand and architect across multiple interconnected products rather than optimizing individual systems in isolation.
• Engineering excellence & operational health – Strong command of SRE/DevOps practices, availability, performance, automated testing, CI/CD, telemetry, incident management, capacity planning, and production readiness.
• Retail supply-chain domain expertise – Knowledge of replenishment, demand forecasting, inventory planning, allocation/placement, distribution-center operations, transportation, and store fulfillment.
• Forecasting & optimization experience – Familiarity with time-series forecasting, demand sensing, optimization algorithms, simulation, and operations research.
• Enterprise platform integration – Experience managing large dependency landscapes across data, infrastructure, security, product, and other platform teams.
• AI-enabled engineering – Experience applying generative AI/LLMs to engineering productivity, decision support, or supply-chain use cases.

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 experts 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 Work

Walmart’s culture sets us apart, and we know being together helps us innovate, learn and grow great careers. This role is based in our Bangalore office for daily work, with the flexibility for associates to manage their 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.

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