(USA) Senior Director I, Software Engineering

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What you'll do...

Senior Director of Software Engineering - Walmart Global Technology 

Come and lead a small, fast-moving team of bright, prolific engineers who help thousands of others achieve step-function improvements in efficiency, reliability, and productivity for hundreds of applications at one of the world’s largest and most valuable companies and beyond. 

Walmart's multi-cloud compute and data ecosystem combines the strengths of public cloud, private infrastructure, open source, and commercial products to empower application developers with the industry’s best offerings and integrated experiences at massive scale, across vendors, geographies, and footprints. 

Our job is to find ways to simplify and accelerate delivery of increasingly sophisticated business capabilities by creating and launching new products and features that advance the state of the art in multi-cloud native computing to disrupt the global retail value chain. 

Join us to lead the engineering team that is driving performance, reliability and cost efficiency across multiple zone, regions, and cloud providers.  Shape how the industry defines multi-cloud native, tackle the complexities of running across cloud platforms, and deliver at Walmart scale!

You’ll sweep us off our feet if… 

• You partner with other thought leaders to catalyze change on a company or industry scale 
• You have a track record working directly with cloud vendors to shape adoption criteria and work through challenges of cross-cloud integrations and symmetrical deployments.
• You foster deep partnership and support among engineering leaders through clarity of vision and the ability to create common value to generate organizational momentum.
• You have pioneered breakthrough applications, services, and platforms for large, complex organizations 

What you'll do... 

• Help senior leaders understand the context and motivations for our technical decisions 
• Inspire users and stakeholders to viral adoption and active promotion of our offerings 
• Lead a team of senior engineers driving high-impact, rapid, incremental maturity, and growth of Walmart’s multi-cloud platform.
• Foster a team culture of creativity and hands-on solutioning to tackle multi-cloud complexities such as symmetrical deployments and cross-cloud resiliency, observability, and latency mitigation.
• Lead implementation of our novel technologies and concepts to the point of sustained impact 

What you'll bring... 

• A clear vision for architecture and exceptional communication skills to articulate it to all levels of stakeholders
• Technical depth rooted in hands on experience across the breadth of modern software technology domains
• Extensive experience in the design, development, and delivery of software products with a massive customer base
• Strong track record in a strategic technical leadership role with large-scale software development projects
• A clear vision for architecture and exceptional communication skills to articulate it to all levels of stakeholders
• Excellent decision-making skills with the ability to balance conflicting interests in a complex and fast-paced environment 
• Thorough understanding of distributed technologies, public cloud technologies, and data structures and algorithms 
• Experience in hiring, coaching, and managing a team of high potential platform engineers
• Excellent interpersonal skills, and the ability to negotiate and drive the tough conversations in influencing engineering decisions
• Experience working in a fast-paced, results-oriented environment in managing technology-intensive, time-sensitive, geographically dispersed engineering organizations across multiple locations and multiple domains.
• A proven ability to manage ambiguity and preparedness to get things done
• Business acumen, combining technical vision with business insights 
• An advanced degree in Computer Science or a related discipline 

Role:

Walmart is looking for a passionate leader with in-depth engineering and product experience to work across multiple organizations and platform teams to innovate, build, and accelerate product adoption. Some of the key roles are:

• Build, coach, and drive a high-performance engineering team.​ 
• Explore, prototype and transfer technology that offers high return on investment through continuous improvement aligned with engineering and product priorities.​ 
• Build, develop, and guide high-performing talent for the Enterprise Architecture team.
• Engage with leaders worldwide to build strategy and define priorities for the team to deliver the best service to its stakeholders across the globe.
• Promote and support company policies, procedures, mission, values, and standards of ethics and integrity.
• Provide supervision, mentoring, and development opportunities for associates. 

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.   

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.    

Who we are: 

Join Walmart and your work could help over 275 million global customers live better every week. Yes, we are the Fortune #1 company. But you’ll quickly find we’re a company who wants you to feel comfortable bringing your whole self to work. A career at Walmart is where the world’s most complex challenges meet a kinder way of life. Our mission spreads far beyond the walls of our stores. Join us and you'll discover why we are a world leader in diversity and inclusion, sustainability, and community involvement.  From day one, you’ll be empowered and equipped to do the best work of your life.  careers.walmart.com  

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 19,000+ software engineers, data scientists and service professionals within Walmart, the world’s largest retailer, delivering innovations that empower our 2.2 million associates and improve shopping experiences for our customers. To some, innovation looks like an app, a service, or a model 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. 

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 7 years’ experience in software engineering or related field OR 9 years’ experience in software
engineering or related field.
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 or related field and 6 years' experience in software engineering

Primary Location...

840 W CALIFORNIA AVE, SUNNYVALE, CA 94086-4828, United States of America

About Walmart

At Walmart, we help people save money so they can live better. This mission serves as the foundation for every decision we make, from responsible sourcing to sustainability—and everything in between. As a Walmart associate, you will play an integral role in shaping the future of retail, tech, merchandising, finance and hundreds of other industries—all while affecting the lives of millions of customers all over the world. Here, your work makes an impact every day. What are you waiting for?

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, abilities, ideas and opinions- while being inclusive of all people.