(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...

About Team:

Personalization team at Walmart is dedicated to the mission of knowing our customers better and making it frictionless and faster for them to get what they want while building a trusted partnership with Walmart. We help bring a seamless experience to our customers irrespective of how and where they engage with us – while shopping online or picking groceries at stores. We thrive to provide each customer with a journey tailored to their individual needs, preferences and routines. We operate at the intersection of huge Walmart assortment, millions of customers, thousands of stores and Walmart associates - a multi-layer multi-objective problem space which has a unique impact on Global customer base and powers assisted AI for our associates.

The Personalization team consists of big data geeks, application engineers, scientists and product visionaries all working together to design, prototype and build technology-driven products and experiences that will change the future landscape of e-commerce. We are focused on building an intelligent system that will enable 1:1 personalized customer experience, from finding the product to delivering it to the customer. We are building state-of-the-art probabilistic models and engineering marvels to serve our customer needs by leveraging cutting edge machine learning, deep learning, reinforcement learning, natural language processing, entity-relationship extraction and knowledge representation. This will span many markets, business models and form factors; therefore, we are looking for scientists and engineers who will bring not only an abundance of experiences in technologies, but an abundant curiosity to innovate.

What you'll do:

You’ll make an impact by:

• Build data-driven platforms and capabilities to power Personalization experiences across site, app, stores, voice commerce.
• Architect systems and workflows to process and manage petabyte scales of features data.
• Collaborate with team leads to deliver end-to-end scalable architecture for cross-functional projects.
• Work closely with business and product stakeholders to define strategy, vision and roadmap for top

initiatives in Personalization and Recommendations.

• Actively propose, review and present technical solutions including architecture design, implementation details and customer and business impacting KPIs.
• Actively contribute to research community through participation at conferences, seminar and workshops.

What you'll bring:

You’ll sweep us off our feet if:

• You have experience in building large-scale distributed systems that process large volume of data focusing on scalability, latency, and fault-tolerance.
• Leadership and Influence: The ability to lead by example, mentor junior engineers, and influence decision-making processes at all levels of the organization is vital. This includes promoting a culture of technical excellence, encouraging continuous learning, and fostering collaboration across teams.
• Strategic Thinking: A strategic mindset to align technical initiatives with business goals is essential. This involves understanding the broader business context, anticipating future trends and challenges, and making decisions that balance short-term needs with long-term objectives.
• Excellent Problem-Solving Skills: You are expected to tackle some of the most challenging problems in the organization. This requires exceptional analytical skills, creativity, and the ability to develop innovative solutions that are scalable, efficient, and effective.
• Effective Communication and Collaboration: Strong communication skills are necessary to articulate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and effectively negotiate and resolve conflicts. This also includes the ability to listen to and incorporate diverse perspectives and feedback.
• You have advanced knowledge of complex software design, distributed system design, design patterns, data structures and algorithms.
• You have experience in building systems that orchestrate and execute complex workflows in big-data leveraging Apache Spark, Apache Kafka, and Hadoop stack preferably in Google Cloud Platform.

Minimum Qualifications...

Outlined below are the required minimum qualifications for this position.

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field and 16+ years industry experience, or master’s degree in Computer Science or related field and 6+ years industry experience.
• Experience in building large scale distributed systems with scalability and fault tolerance.
• Experience in multi-cloud production environment deployment and maintenance.
• 6 years' supervisory experience.

Preferred Qualifications...

Outlined below are the optional preferred qualifications for this position.

• Master’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or related area and 12+ years' experience in software engineering or related area

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 sis 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 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