SENIOR MANAGER, SOFTWARE ENGINEERING

Position Summary...

What you'll do...

Position Summary...

Drives the execution of multiple business plans and projects by identifying customer and operational needs; developing and communicating business plans and priorities; removing barriers and obstacles that impact performance; providing resources; identifying performance standards; measuring progress and adjusting performance accordingly; developing contingency plans; and demonstrating adaptability and supporting continuous learning. Provides supervision and development opportunities for associates by selecting and training; mentoring; assigning duties; building a team-based work environment; establishing performance expectations and conducting regular performance evaluations; providing recognition and rewards; coaching for success and improvement; and ensuring diversity awareness. Promotes and supports company policies, procedures, mission, values, and standards of ethics and integrity by training and providing direction to others in their use and application; ensuring compliance with them; and utilizing and supporting the Open Door Policy. 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.

About the Team
Walmart's Global Tech Platforms team, also known as GTP, helps thousands of developers save time and code better, so that millions of Walmart associates can help hundreds of millions of customers to save money and live better. 
We sustain millions of transactions per second, process petabytes of data, and enable tens of thousands of production deployments per day. We simplify the complexities of scale and unify the software development for all aspects of business, digital and physical.
We are developer’s developers. We provide and foster the cloud native culture to our organization. Our team has the whole gamut of platforms, services, libraries, tools and frameworks on some of the cutting-edge technologies to solve hard, complex and high scale business problems. The Infrastructure as a Service team provides private and public cloud infrastructure - compute (VMs, CPUs, GPUs and Bare metals), storage (CEPH), SDN and container platform. The Software Development Environment – SDE team – provides world class CI/CD pipelines, workflow automation, repositories and OneOps deployment tool providing ultimate DevOps power to developers for continuous delivery. The application foundation team provides multi-tenant managed services for authz, messaging (JMS, Kafka), caching, externalized gateways, cloud configuration, massive centralized log search farm, telemetry, Cassandra/Oracle/MySql/MS-QL/Cloud RDBMS for the developer community of Walmart. All of the developer-productivity tools provided by GTP are continuously enhanced through recent advancements in GenAI. These solutions are frequently revamped to capitalize on the latest progress in both AI and GenAI, ensuring that teams always benefit from the most modern capabilities.

What You'll Do

Our ideal candidate is an energetic, self-motivated individual focused on solving customer problems. He/she is a responsive team player who can proactively contribute for building technical strategies for applications and systems by promoting an understanding of the technology and business roadmap. When you add the numbers, you will realize that this role will probably help influence the largest pool of customers anywhere in the world. If that gives you goose bumps - then you are the kind of candidate, we want.

• You will be responsible for development of developer facing applications that are used to boost the developer productivity and experience of Walmart developers.
• Lead a team of top-notch engineers to successfully build and deploy cutting edge platforms. Lead and direct large-scale, complex, cross-functional projects by reviewing project requirements; translating requirements into technical solutions; directing and reviewing
• Design artifacts (for example, proof of concepts, prototypes); write and develop code; oversee software design; review unit test cases; communicate status and issues to team members and stakeholders; direct project team and cross functional teams; enhance design to prevent recurrences of defects; ensure on-time delivery and hand-offs; interact with project manager to provide input on project plan; and provide leadership to the project team.
• You will work in our own internal open stack cloud, Azure, GCP, using several technologies including but not limited to JAVA, Spring, Kafka, Cosmos DB, REST APIs, GraphQL, Python, data solutions etc.
• Focus on goal completion and support teams to overcome the challenges in implementation
• Work with senior leadership to chart out the roadmap of the products
• Improve, optimize and identify opportunities for efficient software development processes
• Work very closely with different product and business stakeholders at various locations in US and India to drive the execution of multiple business plans and technologies
• Exhibit strong leadership and communication skills to collaborate with product, engineering and management teams across different geographic locations
• Improve, optimize and identify opportunities for efficient software development processes
• Hire, Develop and Retain a strong team of software engineers.
• Interact with Walmart engineering teams across geographies to leverage expertise and contribute to the tech community
• Promote and support company policies, procedures, mission, values, and standards of ethics and integrity.

What You'll Bring

• Deep expertise in architecture and design patterns, cloud-native microservices, and building resilient, reliable, high-quality software.
• Strong technical mindset with hands-on product development experience and the ability to deep-dive into complex technical issues.
• Exposure to program management practices, including dependency management and cross-team development tracking.
• Hands-on experience with developer platforms is a strong advantage.
• Proven ability to build, lead, and mentor high-performing engineering teams.
• Thought leadership and the ethos of a people-first leader.
• Demonstrated success working effectively with distributed, global teams in a collaborative and productive manner.
• Strong stakeholder management skills.
• Strong problem-solving skills and a consistent track record of delivering outcomes in complex, fast-paced environments.
• Strong sense of ownership with a focus on quality, responsiveness, efficiency, and continuous innovation.
• Ability to guide teams through technical challenges and drive clarity during execution.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to work across teams, functions, and geographies.
• Ability to influence, align, and collaborate with diverse partners and stakeholders.
• Passion for quick learning and adapting in a dynamic global environment.

• An Engineering Degree - B.E/B.Tech/MS in any stream – Computer Science preferred.
• 14+ years of relevant experience, Minimum of 5 years of experience with agile principles and practices. Experience in leading Scrum teams.
• Hands on experience in building scalable cloud native software platforms/applications
• Very strong understanding and experience in the area of software development lifecycle.
• Strong Java/J2EE, React skill ( good to have)
• Strong understanding of architecture, database, messaging , (Kafka services)
• SQL/Cosmos/Azure database proficiency

• Experience in leading and delivering full-stack developer platform applications would be desirable

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/Chennai] 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

Minimum Qualifications...

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

Option 1: Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or related area and 5 years’ experience in software engineering or related area.
Option 2: 7 years’ experience in software engineering or related area. 2 years’ 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, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or related area and 3 years' experience in software engineering or related area., We value candidates with a background in creating inclusive digital experiences, demonstrating knowledge in implementing Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 AA standards, assistive technologies, and integrating digital accessibility seamlessly. The ideal candidate would have knowledge of accessibility best practices and join us as we continue to create accessible products and services following Walmart’s accessibility standards and guidelines for supporting an inclusive culture.

Primary Location...Tower 1, Part Of 1st, 2nd To 4th Flrs, Intl Tech Park Radial Road (radial It Park Pvt Ltd), , India