(IND) Distinguished Software Engineer

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...

Job Summary

The Distinguished Engineer role is a hands-on leadership role that supports architectural designs and advisory with in International Tech team in IDC. This is a highly technical role positioned uniquely to drive disruptive growth across key priorities by leveraging differentiated technical prowess. The right candidate would be required to go deep into specific application and services, and work on higher-level multi-domain system designs, transcending functional boundaries. .

About The team

Advertisement Tech & Marketing Tech are core to Walmart's strategy of engaging customers across eCommerce as well as Brick and Mortar stores. The team owns the products which drives these capabilities across several International markets of Walmart with a net impact to the tune of 100s of Millions USD.

What will you Do?

Distinguished Engineer role is a hands-on role that supports architectural designs and advisory for retail domain areas owned by teams in IDC. The role will lead overall tech strategy & architecture across International Tech.

We are looking for a strong Distinguished Engineer who can drive design & architecture of next generation AdTech/MarTech products keeping scalability, robustness & security aspects in focus while catering to the various requirements for internal/external stakeholders.

As a part of this team based in Bangalore team, your designs and solutions will have a significant impact on day-to-day running of Walmart. You will be challenged with unparalleled complex business problems that spans across multiple countries, large number of users and data.

Some key responsibilities include:

• Drive design, development, implementation and documentation  
• Build, test and deploy cutting edge solutions at scale, impacting associates of Walmart worldwide.  
• Interact with Walmart engineering teams across geographies to leverage expertise and contribute to the tech community.  
• Engage with Product Management and Business to drive the agenda, set your priorities and deliver awesome products.  
• Drive the success of the implementation by applying technical skills, to design and build enhanced processes and technical solutions in support of strategic initiatives.  
• Work closely with other Architects and cross functional teams and follow established practices for the delivery of solutions meeting QCD (Quality, Cost & Delivery), Within the established architectural guidelines.
• Convert Operational Excellence & Engineering Excellence goals into tech milestones.
• Work with senior leadership to chart out the future roadmap of the products  
• Participate in hiring and build teams enabling them to be high performing agile teams.  
• Interact closely for requirements with Business owners and technical teams both within India and across the globe. You will use your engineering experience and technical skill to define design and overall architecture for highly scalable and robust solutions.  
• You will work with engineering teams to create high level and low level designs, drive design discussion and technical decisions.  
• You will come up with quality, best practices, other Non-functional standards and guide the teams to execute them along with helping them on overall technical and design aspects. 
• You will help implement cutting edge models and algorithms that operate on massive amounts of data and Interact with Walmart cross functional engineering teams across geographies to leverage technical expertise and contribute to the engineering community.     
• You will help and participate with the teams that leverage and contribute to opensource technologies to make impact on a global scale.   
• Represent the team in internal/external forums.
• Drive Intellectual property generation initiatives in the org - experience with filing patents/publications will be important.

What you will bring

• B.Tech. / B.E. / M.Tech. / M.S. in Computer Science or relevant discipline 
• 18+ years of experience in design and development of highly scalable distributed applications and platforms - particularly on multi-tenant, SaaS products.
• Deep understanding of Advertisement/Marketing Technology domain.
• Experience building a 'Code, Deploy, Run' pipeline using DevOps best practises by leveraging the best available CI/CD tools.
• Strong computer science fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, design patterns.  
• Own Tech Debt/Tech Modernization - Ability to balance the long-term "big picture" and short-term implications of design decisions. 
• Having proficiency in at least a couple of language like Java, Scala, Golang 
• Hands on experience in Microservices, RESTful webservices development in Java/NodeJS(SpringBoot, Dropwizard or equivalent framework).  
• Good knowledge in messaging systems: Kafka / RabbitMQ 
• In depth knowledge of Cloud Native Architecture, Microservice Architecture and related stacks (Service Registry, ELK / Splunk, service registry, VMs, etc.) and container technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, etc.) 
• Knowledge of at least one of Azure/Google Cloud Platforms with an ability to learn fast where required.
• Self-Starter with the ability to multitask across several priority areas in the face of fuzzy situations.
• Demonstrated end-to-end ownership for development and design of multiple cloud-based projects with 4 9s reliability.  
• Strong hands-on development skills to prototype technical solutions. 
• Strong desire to drive change, and ability to adapt to change quickly. Proficient in new and emerging technologies. 
• Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills - including negotiation, facilitation, and consensus building skills; ability to influence and persuade, without direct control. 
• Mentoring/coaching Principal Engineers - respected tech leader that rockstar engineers can look up to.
• Focus on reusability, frameworks, patterns and configurations tools for faster development. 
• Contributing back to opensource. 
• Practitioner of Agile (Scrum) methodology 

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.

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...

Pardhanani Wilshire II, Cessna Business Park, Kadubeesanahalli Village, Varthur Hobli , India