Senior Manager I, Software Engineering

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What you'll do...
Walmart's Item & Supply Chain Technology (CSIS) services is responsible for enabling the core services and systems that support our partners to setup Catalog at scale to be sold thru various Walmart Selling channels both online and in stores in the eCommerce environment, and to provide a frictionless buying experience for customers with high confidence based on high-quality product content. Walmart is investing in transforming these spaces with the latest technology and we are looking for a talented individual who can use their engineering and leadership skills to help our teams solve complex problems.
We're looking for an Engineering Manager for the Automated Inventory Management Systems team. This individual will help us lead a team within the Supply Chain Technology Organization at Walmart Labs. We need thoughtful, proactive leaders to drive the product roadmap, build partnerships across the organization, delight internal customers and stakeholders, encourage career growth, and drive innovation with measurable results.
As a primary leader of this team, you'll influence, coach, and be a servant leader to multiple teams participating and contributing in transforming products and platforms in this space. You will be part of the application development team leading software design and implementation, problem-solving, leading consistency across our team in quality standards, ensuring our teams adhere to architecture principles, research and propose creative ideas that allows our teams to solve problems faster and provide engineering efficiency as they work with our customers to deliver world-class software solutions.
Success in this role requires high comfort with ambiguity, start-up mentality and passion for new technologies. The Manager will work with several cross-functional teams (product, engineering, support, etc.) for roll out.
What you will do..

  • Leads and participates in medium- to large-scale, complex, cross-functional projects by reviewing project requirements; translating requirements into technical solutions; gathering requested information (for example, design documents, product requirements, wireframes); writing and developing code; conducting unit testing; communicating status and issues to team members and stakeholders; collaborating with the project team and cross-functional teams; troubleshooting open issues and bug-fixes; enhancing design to prevent reoccurrences of defects; ensuring on-time delivery and hand-offs; interacting with project manager to provide input on project plan; and providing leadership to the project team.
  • Leads the work of other small groups of six to ten engineers, including offshore associates, for assigned Engineering projects by providing pertinent documents, direction, and examples; identifying short- and long- term solutions and timeline; reviewing and approving proposed solutions; implementing new architectural patterns; and performing design and code reviews of changes.
  • Supports business objectives by collaborating with business partners to identify opportunities; addressing high-priority initiatives (for example a business strategy, technical feasibility, implementation alternatives); identifying short- and long-term solutions; and leading cross-functional partnership.
  • Leads the discovery phase of medium to large projects to come up with high-level design by partnering with the product management, Web Operations, project management, business and user experience teams; obtaining cross-function approvals; driving proof-of-concept; and implementing prototypes to validate ideas.
  • Utilizes industry research to improve Wal-Mart's technology environment by analyzing industry best practices; benchmarking industry against internal
  • processes and solutions; researching or influencing future industry solutions for fit with internal needs; and defining software development guidelines, standards and processes.
  • Ensures business needs are being met by evaluating the ongoing effectiveness of current plans, programs, and initiatives; consulting with business partners, managers, co-workers, or other key stakeholders; soliciting, evaluating, and applying suggestions for improving efficiency and cost-effectiveness; and participating in and supporting community outreach events.


You'll sweep us off our feet if you're..

  • Comfortable influencing others, leading team, managing stakeholders, getting buy-in from leadership, and communicating clearly
  • A problem solver and like digging in
  • Someone that has a test and learn mentality, and an agile way of working to improve your team's products
  • Excited about solving complex challenges
  • Customer-centric in spirit and execution
  • Have exposure working with cloud technologies
  • Experience leading teams and implementing technology globally


You'll make an impact by:

  • Building and leading teams: Set and manage globally distributed engineering teams
  • Providing cross-functional leadership : Working cross-functionally with product, engineering, program, and business teams to deliver omni-solutions across the globe
  • Developing and executing plans : Drive the execution of multiple business plans and tech initiatives. Effectively communicate execution, capacity, resource plans, and priorities
  • Building strategic relationships: Partner with peer teams to help design omni-presence solution across stores and online
  • Operating with excellence - Set an example in managing code quality via reviews, coverage, automation for core application and peer teams. Contribute to technology backlog based on reviews.


Preferred Qualifications:

  • Bachelor of Science and 5 - 10 years' experience in software engineering OR Master of Science and 3 years' experience in software engineering
  • Manage software development engineers and lead Engineering projects
  • In-depth knowledge of technologies such as Java, Rest API, Big Data, Event driven design React.js, Node.js, Messaging Technologies (MQ Series, Kafka), Spring Boot, SQL, SQL Databases, Containerization
  • Understanding of cloud technologies and designing solutions deployed to Azure & Google Cloud Platform
  • Engage in technical design and discussions and also help drive technical architecture
  • Ensure the happiness and productivity of the team's software engineers
  • Help mitigate risk (technical, product, personnel)
  • Collaborate with other scrum teams, QA, Release Management, Program Management, and TechOps.
  • Provide guidance and influence in other areas of the Engineering (e.g. DevOps and Test Engineering)
  • Communicate the vision of our product to external entities
  • Participate in relevant Engineering and Technical Operations workgroups and on-call rotations to assure service availability
  • Foster, enable and promote innovation
  • Define team metrics and meet productivity goals of the organization
  • Mentor software engineers through their career growth


Minimum Qualifications...
Outlined below are the required minimum qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no minimum qualifications.
Minimum Qualifications: Bachelor's degree in Engineering or a related field and 3 years' experience in Industrial Engineering, supply chain, or a related area OR 5 years' experience in Industrial Engineering, supply chain, or a related area. 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
Masters
Primary Location...
840 W CALIFORNIA AVE, SUNNYVALE, CA 94086-4828, United States of America

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