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Walmart Global Tech India

Director, Software Engineering

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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:

At Walmart Global Tech India, if you're thinking scale, think bigger and don't stop there. Take a regular day at Walmart Global Tech and match that with 260 million customers a week, 11,695 stores, under 59 banners in 28 countries and e-commerce websites in 11 countries. That's Walmart Global Tech India for you! Through our products and engineering services across all Walmart properties (stores, app and online) we help customers live better by saving them time and money. Our teams are engaged in cutting edge engineering and product development to support Walmart's strategy of offering customers an anywhere, anytime shopping experience.

International Technology team enables our stores and eCommerce operations across the world. The platforms that we build are used in most of the markets where Walmart has its presence (outside US). AdTech team in International Technology builds technology products which are the backbone of high margin businesses like Data Monetisation and Advertising.

What you'll do:

  • Be a Single Threaded owner who leads by showing and doing instead of just Directing.
  • As a Manager of Managers, lead a significant charter in the group.
  • Lead a team of Top Notch Managers, Architects & Engineers to successfully build and deploy cutting edge platforms for consumption by different stakeholders.
  • Work with senior leadership to chart out the future roadmap of the products
  • Work very closely with various business stakeholders across various International location to drive the execution of business plans and technologies
  • Improve, optimize and identify opportunities for efficient software development processes
  • Hire, Develop and Retain a strong team of software engineers.
  • Exhibit strong leadership and communication skills to collaborate with product, engineering and management teams across different geographic locations
  • Strong ability to negotiate, communicate, set standards and hold others accountable.
  • Promote and support company policies, procedures, mission, values, and standards of ethics and integrity.
  • Support business objectives by collaborating with business partners to identify opportunities and drive resolution; partnering with business to define priorities; identifying short and long term solutions; and leading cross functional partnership
  • Interact with Walmart engineering teams across geographies to leverage expertise and contribute to the tech community.
  • Drive the success of the implementation by applying technical skills, to design and build enhanced processes and technical solutions in support of strategic initiatives.
  • Work closely with the Architects and cross functional teams and follow established practices for the delivery of solutions meeting QCD (Quality, Cost & Delivery). Within the established architectural guidelines. Participate in hiring and build teams enabling them to be high performing agile teams.
  • You will come up with quality, best practices, other Non-functional standards, guide the teams to adhere to the standards.
  • Maintain day to day rigour for efficient execution.

What you'll bring:

  • An Engineering Degree - B.E/B.Tech/MS/PhD in any stream Computer Science preferred.
  • 15+ years of relevant experience in building highly resilient, highly scalable systems
  • 5+ years of leadership/management experience as a Manager of Managers and Principal/Staff Engineers with team size of 40+.
  • A good understanding of CS Fundamentals, Microservices, Data Structures, Algorithms & Problem Solving
  • Hands on experience with Java ( must have), Nodejs or Python, Cloud ( AWS, Azure ), DevOps CI/CD tools, relational DBMS ( MySQL, Oracle etc ) & non-relational DBMS ( MongoDB, CosmosDB etc ) with big data technologies ( Kafka, Spark etc ).
  • Hands on in driving architecture reviews, code reviews etc.
  • Understand the product and project management space with Agile methodologies.
  • CI/CD development environments/tools: Git, Maven, Jenkins.
  • Demonstrated end-to-end ownership for development and design of least one cloud-based project - Experience in building microservices, data pipelines, extensible platforms is desirable.
  • Strong desire to drive change, and ability to adapt to change quickly. Proficient in new and emerging technologies.
  • Ability to balance the long-term big picture and short-term implications of decisions.
  • Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills - including negotiation, facilitation, and consensus building skills; ability to influence and persuade, without direct control.
  • Experience Mentoring/coaching first level Managers & Principal/Senior staff engineers
  • Focus on reusability, frameworks, patterns and configurations tools for faster development.
  • Practitioner of Agile (Scrum) methodology
  • Demonstrated experience in driving Operational/Engineering Excellence initiatives as well as non tech initiatives.

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.

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 isand feelsincluded, 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 and6 years experience in software engineering or related area.

Option 2: 8 years experience in software engineering or related area.

3 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 4 years experience in software engineering or related area

Primary Location...

BLOCK- 2, PRESTIGE TECH PACIFIC PARK, SY NO. 38/1P, OUTER RING ROAD KADUBEESANAHALLI, , India R-2361298

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Job ID: 140383851

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