Principal Technical Architect

Position Summary...

What you'll do...

What you’ll do…

Lead and direct large-scale, complex, cross-functional projects by reviewing project requirements, translating requirements into technical solutions. Design world-class high-performance user interfaces or prototypes. Promote and support company policies, procedures, mission, values, and standards of ethics and integrity by training and providing direction to others in their use and application; while ensuring compliance with them; and utilizing and supporting the Open-Door Policy.

About the team:

Walmart Health (WMH) is on a mission to make Healthcare Affordable, Convenient and Accessible. We are the technology arm of WMH focused on building a technology platform that will enable value-based care and deliver better outcomes at lower cost for our customers. 

As a Principal Architect on the Walmart Health Technology team, you will be working with cutting-edge technology to build user interfaces for Virtual Care Health platform that will be integrated with one of the leading EMR systems. The platform will empower our customers to access their personal and family health information and provide tools to live healthier. At the same time, the platform will help improve productivity of our healthcare providers so they can focus on delivering safe and high-quality care at affordable prices. 

We are looking for creative problem solvers and diverse thinkers with the desire to disrupt the healthcare industry. A qualified applicant will be someone who likes to win as a team, who is purposeful, quality-driven, curious, determined, collaborative and fun.

You’ll sweep us off our feet if…

• You have experience working in a healthcare industry
• You have experience designing highly available, reliable, scalable, multi-tenant and high-performance user interfaces
• You treat Security and Privacy as first-class citizens when designing solutions
• You know how to incrementally design an ideal solution

You’ll make an impact by:

As a Principal UI Architect, you will be responsible for leading design and implementation of user interfaces and coaching our staff engineers who are an integral part of our tight-knit group of dedicated problem solvers. The ideal candidate should be able to quickly make an impact on the Health Platform team and work with the larger organization to deliver innovative and delightful experiences to our customers and associates.

What you’ll bring

• In-depth knowledge of industry best practices, technologies, architectures, and emerging technologies specifically in designing user interfaces
• Experience delivering high performance user interfaces for applications at scale leveraging public cloud.
• Experience driving engineering design using Agile processes to drive innovation, accelerate decisions and outcomes while minimizing risk.
• Experience in making successful trade-offs that balance the short- and long-term goals and initiatives.
• Contribute to the development lifecycle in all phases—from initial ideation, to implementation, and testing.
• Design user-friendly user interfaces of modern web application using AngularJS/React, that are responsive, deliver excellent user experience and smooth performance and aligned with the UX prototypes.
• Design and oversee implementation of UI interfaces with Core UI Team that works closely with the UX team.
• Design user interfaces that link with back-end services, APIs, and processes across multiple products.
• Take initiative to improve upon coding standards, clarify requirements, and seek opportunities for growth.
• Work with Product Owners, Stakeholders, and other team members to translate the requirements into final deliverables ensuring the technical feasibility of UX designs.
• Optimizing application for maximum speed and scalability.
• Work closely with QA to deliver quality UI code in an agile environment.
• Foster an Agile engineering culture that leverages decoupled systems and automated CI/CD/testing/monitoring

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in design interfaces to align to project scope, drive interface testing strategies with solution teams and lead interface design and specification review sessions with product teams

• Experience with user-centered design principles and practices

• Exposure to telehealth or large EMR/EHR systems.

• Exposure to HL7 and FHIR.

• 10+ years of experience delivering highly scalable and resilient user interfaces.

• 4+ years of experience designing secure and scalable services on Azure/GCP.

• 7+ years of Azure, GCP or similar cloud services experience.

• Solid understanding of Accessibility concerns and SEO fundamentals

• In-depth experience delivering geo-distributed architectural solutions.

• Strong ability to orchestrate, maintain, and deploy user interface using infrastructure as code and containerized deployments.

• Experience building and working in a Continuous Delivery environment.

• Expert level programming skills creating applications using UI front end frameworks such as Angular, understands React and Node.js

• Solid understanding of Angular best practices, style guide, testing, and component architecture

• Expert in frontend web development including HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript.

• Must have experience in building light weight interfaces using REST/JSON API

Benefits & Perks:

Beyond competitive pay, 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.

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 2.2 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.

We’re virtual:

Working virtually this year has helped us make quicker decisions, remove location barriers across our global team, be more flexible in our personal lives and spend less time commuting. Today, we are reimagining the tech workplace of the future by making a permanent transition to virtual work for most of our team. Of course, being together in person is an important part of our culture and shared success. We’ll collaborate in person at a regular cadence and with purpose.

Minimum Qualifications...

Outlined below are the required minimum qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no minimum qualifications.

As permitted by applicable law, provide evidence of full vaccination as defined by CDC guidelines OR secure approval of medical or religious accommodation for the vaccination mandate., Bachelor’s degree and 5 years’ experience in building scalable software applications or related field OR 7 years’ experience in building scalable technical solutions or related field.

Preferred Qualifications...

Outlined below are the optional preferred qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no preferred qualifications.

Master’s degree and 4 years’ experience in building scalable technical solutions or related field

Primary Location...

221 RIVER ST, HOBOKEN, NJ 07030, United States of America