Position Summary...
What you'll do...
Senior Manager I, Data Engineering Manager
Our team:
Walmart's Advertising Technology group enables the connection between supplier brands and retail shoppers at an unprecedented scale. As primary stewards of our brand promise, "Save Money. Live Better," we work alongside some of the most talented people in the world to engage with the more than 150M households who shop with us. This position is part of the Sponsored Products team in the Advertising Technology organization. Walmart is investing in building a world-class advertising platform and the Sponsored Products team is responsible for building performance advertising products that drive discovery, sales, and profit. The team operates an end-to-end advertising platform that includes the ad server that serves hundreds of millions of impressions each day, sophisticated ad matching algorithms, real-time measurement, self-service buying interface for end to end campaign management.
We are a highly motivated group of engineers and data scientists, working in an agile group to solve sophisticated and high impact problems. We serve billions of ad requests every month with our high-performance ad servers. We build smart data systems that ingest, model and analyze massive flow of data from online and offline user activity. We use cutting edge machine learning, data mining and optimization algorithms to analyze data. Above all, we are passionate about delivering experiences that our customers and advertisers love
What is the role:
A successful person in this role will own major components of the advertising data landscape, drive alignment with other teams, guide architecture and design within the team and influence it outside. As a manager of the core data team:

• You will be partnering cross-functionally with Product, Data Science and other EMs, to understand the data landscape and influence the methodology choices.
• Own and develop the data roadmap
• Develop highly scalable services to process millions of requests per day and solve complex software systems problems by leveraging state-of-the-art technology.
• Mentor and guide the professional and technical development of your team members
• Help develop their careers and assign them to projects tailored to their skill levels, personalities, work styles, and professional goals
• Participate in code review and facilitate design discussions.

What you will have:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or a related field.
• 8+ years of experience in software development, ideally focusing on big data processing and distributed systems.
• Previous experience as a technical lead or a manager
• Proficient in Scala or Java or Python, HQL and SQL.
• 7+ years' experience in internet-scale distributed technologies (e.g. Solr, Kafka, Mem Cache, and similar technologies ) and/or Big Data frameworks (e.g. Hadoop, Spark, Hive, Storm and similar technologies)
• Relevant experience with relational / non-relational databases (e.g. MySQL, Oracle, Cassandra, etc)
• Strong background in algorithms and data structures
• Knowledge of the big data ecosystem, e.g. HDFS, Hive, MapReduce, Presto, etc. and internals.
• Track record of delivering high-impact products in broadly defined subject domains.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills, ability to present to both technical and non-technical audiences

Plus if you have:

• Familiar with public cloud technologies in Google Cloud Platform, especially BigQuery, GCS and Dataproc.
• Experience with ETL pipelines
• Familiar with workflow management systems like airflow or oozie

• Previous experience in the advertising domain
• Advanced knowledge of performance, scalability, and system architecture with an eye toward avoiding and reducing technical debt.
• Strong inclination towards exploring and learning new technologies.
• Understanding of machine learning
• Hands-on experience developing in a service-oriented architecture for a Linux environment.

Benefits & Perks -
Beyond competitive pay, you can receive incentive awards for your performance. Other great perks include 401(k) match, stock purchase plan, paid maternity and parental leave, PTO, multiple health plans, and much more.
Equal Opportunity Employer -
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.
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 is our true disruption.
We're virtual
Working virtually this year has helped us make quicker decisions, remove location barriers across our global team, be more flexible in our personal lives and spend less time commuting. Today, we are reimagining the tech workplace of the future by making a permanent transition to virtual work for most of our team. Of course, being together in person is an important part of our culture and shared success. We'll collaborate in person at a regular cadence and with purpose.
Minimum Qualifications...
Outlined below are the required minimum qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no minimum qualifications.
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and 4 years' experience in software engineering or related field OR 6 years' experience in software
engineering or related field.
1 year's supervisory experience.
Preferred Qualifications...
Outlined below are the optional preferred qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no preferred qualifications.
Master's degree in Computer Science or related field and 3 years' experience in software engineering
Primary Location...
860 W CALIFORNIA AVENUE, SUNNYVALE, CA 94086-0000, United States of America