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
Enterprise Business Services @ IDC Bangalore and Chennai in India are focused on data driven, highly optimized products and implementations in the areas of Finance, Procurement, Human Resources and Retail business functions for multiple Walmart markets with open stack technologies and other ERP tools.
As part of EBS Finance and Procurement Tech we have embarked on an exciting journey of modernizing and transforming the legacy applications into future tech stack to help build Tier 0 high available, resilient systems for the stores and facilities across US and international markets to increase their productivity.
What you'll do:
Drive Software architecture and deliver scalable Distributed systems.
Technical leadership in building a complex open stack microservices based platform or product that are highly reliable, and scalable.
Provide guidance in applying the right architectural design pattern for the modernization of the applications by analyzing the gaps between existing architecture and new business requirements.
Drive automation using more adoption and maturity on the CICD stage gates for the applications.
Drive implementation of telemetry features based on the domain requirements to improve the overall operational excellence of the application.
Lead a team responsible for a suite of SaaS and full stack products.
Drive strategic technical decisions to transform our current SaaS products into home grown full-stack products.
Establish durable ways of working with product peers and other internal engineering teams to drive our product roadmap.
Build and coach a team of managers and senior ICs and align their strengths to outcomes.
Foster a culture of innovation and operational excellence.
What you’ll bring:
Deep working knowledge of all aspects of Cloud native distributed system development.
Technical Proficiency in one or more of the languages such as Java, Python, React Native, Node JS, React JS, GraphQL
Experience working with micro-services architecture, distributed systems, and applying design patterns.
Experience in all areas of engineering including DevOps, Chaos Engineering, SRE, and on-call rotations to assure service availability and operational excellence.
Experience managing software development engineers, leaders, architects and leading engineering projects, guiding engineering teams on engineering excellence & solid system design.
Ability to clearly articulate a technical vision and energize engineers towards outcomes.
Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science or related field degree and minimum of 20+ years’ experience in software development/management.
Minimum 15+ years of people manager experience (including managing leaders) in driving and retaining a high-performance team.
Minimum 6-8 years of experience building highly scalable, high performance, responsive software Applications.
Proven industry experience with large scale distributed systems
Preferred Qualifications (Manager's Preferred Qualifications (3-5 "nice to haves"))
Highly technical hands-on, proficient in designing Tier 0 systems and an effective people leader
Experience building resilient Tier 0 production system operations (logging, telemetry, alerting etc.)
Attitude to thrive in a fun, fast-paced start-up like environment.
Excellent communication and problem-solving skills
Has ambition and vigor to add value to a rapidly growing development team.
About Global Tech
Imagine working in an environment where one line of code can make life easier for hundreds of millions of people and put a smile on their face. That’s what we do at Walmart Global Tech. We’re a team of 15,000+ software engineers, data scientists and service professionals within Walmart, the world’s largest retailer, delivering innovations that improve how our customers shop and empower our 2.3 million associates. To others, innovation looks like an app, service or some code, but Walmart has always been about people. People are why we innovate, and people power our innovations. Being human led is our true disruption.
Ways of Working
Flexible, hybrid work
We use a hybrid way of working with primary in office presence coupled with an optimal mix of virtual presence. We use our campuses to collaborate and be together in person, as business needs require and for development and networking opportunities. This approach helps us make quicker decisions, remove location barriers across our global team, be more flexible in our 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.
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 to 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 and7 years’ experience in software engineering or related area.
Option 2: 9 years’ experience in software engineering or related area.
4 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 5 years' experience in software engineering or related area.
Primary Location...
Pardhanani Wilshire Ii, Cessna Business Park, Kadubeesanahalli Village, Varthur Hobli , India R-1893652
Seniority level
Director
Employment type
Full-time
Job function
Engineering and Information Technology
Industries
Software Development
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