(IND) DIRECTOR, SOFTWARE ENGINEERING

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...

At Walmart Commerce Technologies our mission is to enable businesses worldwide to better serve their customers with technologies and SaaS solutions powered by Walmart. Our team was established in 2022 and we are transforming scaled Walmart technologies into white-label offerings for other retailers and sellers. We’ve launched Store Assist and Route Optimization and are accelerating our pipeline of future products.

What you'll do:

• Lead a team responsible for a suite of SaaS products across all of Walmart Commerce Technologies.
• Drive strategic technical decisions to transform our current home-grown technologies into world-class SaaS products.
• Establish durable ways of working with product peers and other internal engineering teams to commercialize our current systems.
• Build and coach a team of managers and senior ICs and align their strengths to outcomes.
• Foster a culture of innovation and operational excellence.
• Manage budget planning, spend and tracking for your area of responsibility.
• High sense of urgency to solve problems and in executing them with extreme ownership.
  
  

What you'll bring:

• 15+ years of overall experience with at least 3 years of experience as a second-level manager handling teams of 20+ engineers.
• Background in retail-tech, SaaS, or building multi-tenant platforms or services.
• Experience architecting technical strategies for platform products that can serve many customers.
• Experience in building and leading lean engineering teams.
• Ability to clearly articulate a technical vision and energize engineers towards outcomes.
• Experience working with large scale systems and cloud native systems.
  
  

Technical Skills

• Languages - Java/J2EE
• Micro Services Architecture
• Cloud - GCP, Azure
• Event Driven Architecture
• NoSQL and SQL Databases
  
  

Leadership Expertise

• Stakeholder management, creating influence in the organization
• Build a world class engineering team
• Transformational leadership, ability to understand/navigate and transform.
• Customer Obsessed and Results Driven
• Drive innovation and speed in execution
  
  

Our Ideal candidate

Our ideal candidate is energetic; self-motivated individual focused on solving customer problems. He/she is someone who thrives in a fun, fast-paced, dynamic, start-up-like environment.

• Should have deep interest and passion for technology.
• Should have strong problem solving, analytical, decision-making, communication, and interpersonal skills and should be a team player.
• Should have strong consulting and relationship skills to build long lasting relationships with Walmart business and technology teams.
• Should be able to foster the culture of innovation and customer frist
  
  

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 a host of best-in-class benefits maternity and parental leave, PTO, health benefits, 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.

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 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...

4,5,6, 7 Floor, Building 10, Sez, Cessna Business Park, Kadubeesanahalli Village, Varthur Hobli , India R-1889364