Senior Distinguished I, Architect

Position Summary...Provides overall direction by analyzing business objectives and customer needs; developing, communicating, building support for, and implementing business strategies, plans, and practices; analyzing costs and forecasts and incorporating them into business plans; determining and supporting resource requirements; evaluating operational processes; measuring outcomes to ensure desired results; identifying and capitalizing on improvement opportunities; promoting a customer environment; and demonstrating adaptability and sponsoring continuous learning. Develops and implements strategies to attract and maintain a highly skilled and engaged workforce by diagnosing capability gaps; recruiting, selecting, and developing talent; supporting mentorship, workforce development, and succession planning; and leveraging the capabilities of new and existing talent. Cultivates an environment where associates respect and adhere to company standards of integrity and ethics by integrating these values into all programs and practices; developing consequences for violations or non-compliance; and supporting the Open Door Policy. Develops and leverages internal and external partnerships and networks to maximize the achievement of business goals by sponsoring and leading key community outreach and involvement initiatives; engaging key stakeholders in the development, execution, and evaluation of appropriate business plans and initiatives; and supporting associate efforts in these areas.

What you'll do...

About The Team

Creating Frictionless End to End Omni channel Customer Journey – Store experience, Digital App, Data insights to power Smooth retail shopping and check out experience to make our customers smile and our developers proud!

We also own a multi-tenant platform which builds and orchestrate complex business processes that are delivered through omni channel customer experiences.

What will you Do?

The Senior Distinguished Architect role is a hands-on role that supports architectural designs and advisory for retail domain areas owned by teams in IDC. The role will lead overall tech strategy & architecture across teams.

Providing direct support and engagement to engineering teams, will improve designs, reduce complexity, and contribute to adoption of better practices and strengthened expertise. Contribute towards larger systemic decoupling, and better shared standards. Work to elevate the entire engineering org and improve the overall quality, stability, and availability of our production systems.

This role has a huge impact to the business as the new designed platform will power the growth of the target market to multi-billion dollars.

Some key responsibilities include:

• Lead and inspire high-performing engineering teams in omni-channel retail to build and scale highly reliable, secure, and performant platform / products and frameworks.
• Own the technical design, realization and Devops for a complex micro services ecosystem for a large-scale warehouse retail company.
• Drive a results-oriented culture with a strong focus on engineering excellence, execution and propagate build for scale mindset.
• Develop trusted partnerships with developers, partners, and architecture leaders to drive optimized platform / product delivery.
• Lead complex technical and strategic discussions that involve multiple personas including engineering, architect, product, customer, and other stakeholders.
• Drive development and designs/solutions involving the integration of varied technologies and products to meet business objectives.
• Bring a strong industry perspective that can help shape and evolve the internal developer experience to be as good or better than other leading technology organizations.
• Drive effective, mature Agile practices and continuous execution improvements within your teams.
• Assess and leverage technology when appropriate from Global solutions existing in Walmart ecosystem to build / leverage scalable and innovative solutions.
• Build, mentor, and teach a community of engineers within Omni Tech, and act as a central resource to provide advisory on complex projects and issues.
• High sense of urgency to solve problems and in executing them with extreme ownership.
• Attitude to enjoy in a fun, fast-paced environment.

What you will bring

• 18+ years of experience of engineering experience with a focus large scale product development in open stack and microservices delivery environment
• Should have a keen eye for new technology trends and how they can be used to help grow the business, and a proven ability to be a game changer.
• A technical expert with in-depth knowledge in building distributed systems and products using hybrid cloud technology handling massive amounts of data. Should have built a complex microservices based platform or product.
• Strong knowledge about
  • Azure or GCP
  • Retail domain
  • Digital transformation
• Strong technical background with the capability of being hands-on as required.
• Ability to set and drive technical vision and provide technical mentorship to all levels of engineering talent. Should have established credibility as a central resource, utilized by teams to seek advisory on complex technical issues and projects.
• Depth focus and an attitude to understand and resolve complex technical issues.
• Experience with hiring and building teams from ground up.
• Experience of working with globally distributed teams.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, good with people, ability to negotiate.

Preferred experiences and exposures:

• Understand the product and project management space with Agile methodologies.
• Have good experience in performance instrumentation, tuning, and optimization of large-scale products.
• Have good knowledge in design patterns while building cloud-native products.
• Experience in the eCommerce domain will be a huge positive.

Ways of Working

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.

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.

Minimum Qualifications...

Outlined below are the required minimum qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no minimum qualifications.

Minimum Qualifications:Option 1: Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or related area and7 years’ experience in software engineering, architecture, or related area.Option 2: 9 years’ experience in software engineering, architecture, or related area.

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, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or related area and 5 years' experience in software engineering, architecture, or related area

Primary Location...4,5,6, 7 Floor, Building 10, Sez, Cessna Business Park, Kadubeesanahalli Village, Varthur Hobli , India