(USA) Distinguished, Architect

Position Summary...

What you'll do...

As a Distinguished Architect for the Transactions Team at Walmart, you will be instrumental in defining the architectural vision and strategy for our retail transaction systems. Your primary responsibility will be to design, develop, and oversee the implementation of robust, scalable, and efficient architectural solutions for the transaction process.

In this role, you will be the guiding force behind our transaction process, ensuring that every customer enjoys a seamless, efficient, and secure user experience. Your work will directly impact the speed and reliability of transactions, contributing significantly to customer satisfaction and the overall success of Walmart's retail operations.

About Team:
Our team creates reusable technologies to help with customer acquisition, onboarding, and empowering merchants, while ensuring a seamless experience for both of these stakeholders. We also optimize tariffs and assortment in accordance with Walmart's Everyday Low Cost philosophy. We not only create affordability, but we also deliver customized experiences for customers across all channels - in-store, mobile app, and websites.
What you'll do:

As a Distinguished Architect, you will be instrumental in defining the technical vision and architecture of Transaction systems, ensuring they meet performance, security, and scalability requirements. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, guide engineering efforts, and lead the adoption of cutting-edge technologies to build reliable, high-quality software solutions.

Architectural Leadership: Lead the end-to-end design, documentation, and evolution of the software architecture, ensuring alignment with business objectives, scalability, performance optimization, and compliance with industry standards.

System Design & Scalability: Architect large-scale, distributed systems using cloud-native technologies (e.g., Azure) with a focus on microservices, containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), and API-first design principles. Ensure the architecture accommodates growth and performance at scale.

Technical Mentorship & Leadership: Provide hands-on technical leadership, guiding engineers through design decisions, debugging, and architecture challenges. Foster a culture of continuous learning and innovation, ensuring that best practices around security, performance, and testing are embedded in the development process.

Cross-functional Collaboration:Work closely with Product Managers, UX/UI Designers, QA engineers, and DevOps teams to ensure technical feasibility and to optimize delivery pipelines. Facilitate discussions around trade-offs, priorities, and the feasibility of product features.

Code Review & Standards Enforcement: Define and enforce coding standards, design principles, and architectural best practices (such as SOLID, DRY, and design patterns). Conduct rigorous code reviews to ensure that code is secure, maintainable, and adheres to performance benchmarks.

Innovation & Technology Research:Stay up-to-date with emerging technologies and frameworks (e.g., Kubernetes, GraphQL, Kafka), and assess their potential integration into the system architecture. Lead efforts in prototyping new tools, technologies, and processes.

Project Oversight & Technical Delivery: Collaborate with Project Managers to align project timelines, milestones, and deliverables with architectural vision. Ensure that technical dependencies are identified and addressed early in the development lifecycle.

Clear Communication of Technical Concepts: Translate complex technical ideas into digestible concepts for both technical teams and non-technical stakeholders. Act as a liaison between engineering and business teams to ensure alignment and understanding.

What you'll bring:

• Proven experience in the design, development, and scaling of software platforms for large user bases, focusing on modularity and extensibility.
• Strong track record as an architect in building data-driven, scalable services with a platform-oriented approach to support growth and reliability.
• Clear vision for future-ready Web and mobile architectures, with the ability to communicate effectively across all levels of stakeholders.
• Platform-focused decision-making, balancing technical and business needs in fast-paced, complex environments to ensure performance and scalability.
• Deep knowledge of frontend technologies, particularly in mobile, optimizing for scalability, performance, and developer efficiency.
• Experience collaborating with geographically distributed teams to align on platform goals.
• Strong business acumen, integrating technical vision with strategic business insights.

Immigration sponsorship is not available in this role

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.

Flexible, hybrid work:
We use a hybrid way of working that is primarily in office coupled with virtual when not onsite. Our campuses serve as a hub to enhance collaboration, bring us together for purpose and deliver on business needs. This approach helps us make quicker decisions, remove location barriers across our global team and be more flexible in our personal lives.

Benefits:
Benefits: Beyond our great compensation package, 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 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.
The above information has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed in the role. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all responsibilities and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job. The full Job Description can be made available as part of the hiring process.
 

At Walmart, we offer competitive pay as well as performance-based bonus awards and other great benefits for a happier mind, body, and wallet. Health benefits include medical, vision and dental coverage. Financial benefits include 401(k), stock purchase and company-paid life insurance. Paid time off benefits include PTO (including sick leave), parental leave, family care leave, bereavement, jury duty, and voting. Other benefits include short-term and long-term disability, company discounts, Military Leave Pay, adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, and more.

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You will also receive PTO and/or PPTO that can be used for vacation, sick leave, holidays, or other purposes. The amount you receive depends on your job classification and length of employment. It will meet or exceed the requirements of paid sick leave laws, where applicable.

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For information about PTO, see https://one.walmart.com/notices.

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Live Better U is a Walmart-paid education benefit program for full-time and part-time associates in Walmart and Sam's Club facilities. Programs range from high school completion to bachelor's degrees, including English Language Learning and short-form certificates. Tuition, books, and fees are completely paid for by Walmart.

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Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to a specific plan or program terms.

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For information about benefits and eligibility, see One.Walmart.

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The annual salary range for this position is $169,000.00-$338,000.00

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Additional compensation includes annual or quarterly performance bonuses.

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Additional compensation for certain positions may also include:

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- Stock

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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 and6 years’ experience in software engineering, architecture, or related area.Option 2: 8 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 4 years' experience in software engineering, architecture 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...

860 W California Avenue, Sunnyvale, CA 94086-0000, United States of America