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 Team:
The Data & customer analytics team for US Omni tech closely partners with our U.S. stores and eCommerce business to serve customers by empowering associates, stores, and merchants with technology innovation.
Walmart U.S. provides the deep assortment that our customers appreciate whether they're shopping online at Walmart.com, through one of our mobile apps or shopping in a store. The focus areas include customer, stores and associates, in-store service, merchant tools, merchant data science and search & personalization.
By relating directly to the customer journey, covering areas like, Supply chain, Merchandizing & Marketing.
The access to all the US omni data, help us in getting the data into data lake making us the largest data org with 700 + global data team.
What you'll do:
- Driving the whole data engineering charter, bring best practices, solve key enterprise problems for multiple markets
- Coordinate across retail value chain functional teams of data scientists, analysts, product managers, engineers, and business operators on value realization initiatives.
- Develop and leverage a consistent framework to identify and prioritize uses cases based on business value.
- Play a key role to solve complex data problems (business & operational), pivotal to Walmart's business and drive actionable insights.
- Demonstrate incremental solution approach with agile and flexible ability to overcome practical problems.
- Lead and collaborate with the team to assess customer needs and translate the business problem into an analytical problem.
- Establish data engineering best practices and drive the use of state of art techniques. Manage development and support of data fabric platform that caters to needs of real time events and batch data processing
- Manage end to end development of data products that include traditional RDBMS and big data platforms
- Build and lead a high-performing team of data engineering professionals.
- Drive continuous improvement by researching industry best practices and incorporating it to our company
- Drive the execution of multiple business plans for your own project team and deliverables.
- Represent the team in Senior leadership meetings and actively collaborate with business and product groups.
- Research and drive in bringing in open-source solutions into Data space
- Develop and implement best practices and standards across the Data team
- Engage with Global Data leadership globally in setting up priorities for the team
- Create a collaborative environment across geography for delivering best services to the customers around the globe.
- Provide supervision, mentoring and development opportunities for Senior Managers and Senior Data Architects.
- Attitude to enjoy in a fun, fast-paced environment.
What you'll bring:
- Good academic record and graduated (B.Tech/ M.Tech) from a reputed institution
- Bachelors with 15 - 20 years of experience OR Masters with 12 - 15 years of experience in building data integration solutions involving Big Data technologies.
- A strong understanding of data and reporting engines, data modelling and warehousing, and data transformations and pipelines for supporting real time and batch-oriented events processing.
- Experience in leading large/medium sized development team as a Senior Director.
- Experience with relational databases (Oracle / My SQL), non-relational databases (Cassandra, HBase) and Big data technologies like Hadoop, Spark
- Experience in building end-to-end data products (DaaS) using latest technologies and architecture (like microservices architecture). This included good knowledge of DevOps.
- Experience with distributed real time / micro batch computation systems such as Spark
- Experience in the eCommerce domain will be a huge positive
Our Ideal Candidate
- We are looking for a technically strong Director Data Engineering, with a proven background in building and leading a high performing technology team that builds scalable data solutions using the latest technologies. The role is designed to be a mix of team leadership and active collaboration with business leadership.
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.
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 and 6 years experience in software engineering or related field. Option 2: 8 years experience in software engineering or related field. Option 3: Master's degree in Computer Science and 4 years experience in software engineering or related field. 5 years experience in data engineering, database engineering, business intelligence, or business analytics. 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.
Primary Location...
4,5,6, 7 Floor, Building 10, Sez, Cessna Business Park, Kadubeesanahalli Village, Varthur Hobli , India R-1945069
