(USA) Director, Software Engineering

Position Summary...

What you'll do...

Role Overview:

The People Technology Run + Innovate Lead enables business outcomes through continuous innovation, optimization, enhancement, and maintenance of the People Technology applications in production. There are five key areas of accountability:

• Managing and coordinating global stakeholder relationships

• Collaborating with stakeholders to define and sequence priorities for projects and enhancements

• Driving business value and impact through consumption of release innovations and delivery of enhancements

• Executing day-to-day run support activities supporting Workday and ServiceNow configuration and integrations for Core HR, Absence Management, Compensation, Recruiting, and Talent/Performance

• Maintaining and fostering technology and vendor relationships

The People Technology Run + Innovate Lead will bring the capabilities and experience to integrate these five areas of responsibilities by being a partner with the Global People community to understand People business needs of today and tomorrow, bringing technology innovation while maintaining the People technology suite by resolving critical issues, prioritizing and remediating issues, providing insight to key stakeholders, and supporting adoption of impactful features and functionality that bring business value.

You will sweep us off our feet if you.:

• Partner with global process owners, the People team, and the application support team to evaluate, disposition and deliver enhancements and optimizations that drive business impact

• Own responsibility and accountability for the People Technology run support across the People Technology portfolio

• Manage and leader the People Tech Run + Innovate organization

• Mentor and foster development of team members and promote continuous learning

• Provide direction and prioritization across functional and technical workstreams within the People Tech organization.

• Conduct daily risk identification and proactively work with required stakeholders/team members to mitigate and manage risk

• Serve as escalation point for unresolved incidents, user complaints, critical incidents, or highly complex service requests

• Maintain close coordination with functional and technical Leads; work with relevant leads to balance workload across resources/technology and global HR applications

• Lead change control board meetings to prioritize requests based on business needs and timeline to implement

• Conduct capacity planning to ensure enhancements will be delivered according to the anticipated release schedule (and as new requests are submitted and prioritized)

• Leverage technology and 3rd party vendor relationships to continuously seek out opportunities to enhance or optimize integrations that reduce run-times or increase efficiencies

• Anticipate business needs and proactively engages key stakeholders to plan and deliver on business objectives, including minor and major enhancements or projects

• Understand the Suppliers' application roadmaps and drive integration with the Global People technology roadmap and strategy

• Champion data security to verify cross application security policies are in place and followed

• Coordinate with Supplier Customer Success Leaders and manage supplier relationships

You will make impact by.:

• Providing a consultative, collaborative, customer-centered mindset with strong communication capabilities

• Having a rack record of fostering team collaboration and accountability through both direct and influencing leadership to deliver positive results

• Providing project estimation, budgeting, capacity management, and forecasting

• Leveraging demand management and business prioritization capabilities

• Having extensive experience in SDLC and agile delivery methods

• Understanding of and extensive experience across HR / Payroll business processes

• Bringing your extensive experience in HR technology project management with Workday and ServiceNow experience

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.Beinghuman-ledis 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.

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and 6 years' experience in software engineering or related field OR 8 years' experience in software
engineering or related field.
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 or related field and 5 years' experience in software engineering