(IND) DIRECTOR, SOFTWARE ENGINEERING

About the team:

The Big Data team at Walmart is responsible for building and managing large-scale data processing and analytics platforms that power the company’s data-driven initiatives. We empower a unified ecosystem for developing data products, ML/Ops, and AI/Ops, unlocking actionable insights from Walmart’s data at scale across multiple cloud platforms.

What makes our team unique is our focus on both scale and speed. We leverage cutting-edge technologies, distributed computing frameworks and query engines to provide deliver real-time and batch analytics, delivering data-driven solutions that impact millions of customers and associates every day. Our collaborative culture encourages innovation, continuous learning, and cross-functional partnerships, allowing us to solve some of the most complex data challenges in retail at a global scale.

What you'll do:

·       Strategic Leadership: By setting the technical vision and roadmap for Big Data Offerings, the director ensures the platform evolves to meet Walmart’s growing data needs, supporting innovation and business agility.

·       Platform Excellence: The director can elevate the reliability, scalability, and security of Big Data Offerings.

·       Cross-Functional Collaboration: By partnering with, business leaders, and engineering teams, the director fosters a culture of data-driven decision-making and ensures Big Data Offerings aligns with enterprise goals.

·       Talent Development: The director shapes a high-performing engineering team, mentoring talent, promoting best practices, and driving a culture of continuous improvement.

·       Business Impact: Ultimately, the director’s leadership enables Walmart to unlock more value from its data, accelerate analytics and AI initiatives, and maintain high standards for data integrity, compliance, and operational efficiency.

·       Role’s scope and responsibilities are as follows · System-Level Engineering Leadership: Leads the execution of moderately complex software, data, and ML systems within a broader domain, ensuring system reliability, integration, and scalability.

·       Translates domain strategies into actionable system-level implementation plans, aligning teams with platform architecture and operational priorities. o Drives backlog prioritization, team capacity planning, and system optimization initiatives to support business growth and technical excellence.

·       Technical Execution & Lifecycle Ownership: Oversees the full software development lifecycle across multiple teams, including architecture, coding, testing, deployment, monitoring, and maintenance.

·       Champions DevOps practices, observability tooling, and system health key performance indicators to ensure uptime, scalability, and developer efficiency. o Implements cloud cost optimization strategies and reduces system friction/toil to improve engineering velocity and reduce operational overhead. 

·        AI/ML-Driven Product & Agentic System Development: o Collaborates with product and data teams to deliver AI/ML-enabled features, including agentic systems capable of autonomous execution and reasoning.

·       Provides technical oversight of AI integration across platforms using languages such as Python, Java, Rust, and Dart. o Integrates AI agents for search, automation, and decision support using frameworks and tools.

·       Cross-Functional Collaboration & Roadmap Alignment: o Manages engineering dependencies and project execution across multiple products and services. o Ensures roadmap and milestone alignment with broader organizational priorities through effective stakeholder management and coordination. o Leverages generative AI tools (for example, ChatGPT) for program planning, risk mitigation, and reporting optimization.

·       Technical Ownership: o Demonstrates responsibility for deliverables, ensuring solutions meet quality standards and business objectives. o Takes initiative to resolve issues and drive projects to completion. 

What you'll bring:

·       Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or related area.

·       More than 15 years of experience in software engineering, 5+ years of leadership/management experience as a Manager of Managers and Principal/Staff Engineers with team size of 20+.

·       A good understanding of CS Fundamentals, Microservices, Agentic AI, Data Structures, Algorithms & Problem Solving.

·       Hands on experience working with Java, Python, Kafka, Big Data technologies like Spark, Hive, Airflow, Trino, Druid and Pinot etc.

·       Deep working knowledge of all aspects of Cloud native distributed system development: Azure/ GCP/ WCNP preferred.

·       Experience managing software development engineers, leaders, architects and leading engineering projects, guiding engineering teams on engineering excellence; solid system design.

·       Experience partnering with cross-functional project development and in collaborating with other scrum teams, QA, Release Management, Program Management, and TechOps · Proven experience in the design, development, and scaling of software platforms for large user bases, focusing on modularity and extensibility.

·       Platform-focused decision-making, balancing technical and business needs in fast-paced, complex environments to ensure performance and scalability. · Experience collaborating with geographically distributed teams to align on platform goals.

·       Strong business acumen, integrating technical vision with strategic business insight · Strong problem-solving skills, with the ability to work in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.

·       Excellent leadership and communication skills, with a passion for mentoring and developing engineering talent.

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.

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.

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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