(IND) PRINCIPAL, SOFTWARE ENGINEER

Position Summary...

Drives the execution of multiple business plans and projects by identifying customer and operational needs; developing and communicating business plans and priorities; removing barriers and obstacles that impact performance; providing resources; identifying performance standards; measuring progress and adjusting performance accordingly; developing contingency plans; and demonstrating adaptability and supporting continuous learning. Provides supervision and development opportunities for associates by selecting and training; mentoring; assigning duties; building a team-based work environment; establishing performance expectations and conducting regular performance evaluations; providing recognition and rewards; coaching for success and improvement; and ensuring diversity awareness. Promotes and supports company policies, procedures, mission, values, and standards of ethics and integrity by training and providing direction to others in their use and application; ensuring compliance with them; and utilizing and supporting the Open Door Policy. Ensures business needs are being met by evaluating the ongoing effectiveness of current plans, programs, and initiatives; consulting with business partners, managers, co-workers, or other key stakeholders; soliciting, evaluating, and applying suggestions for improving efficiency and cost-effectiveness; and participating in and supporting community outreach events.

What you'll do...

Our Team
Our team supports cross divisional programs for Transactional Systems as a part of the Enterprise Business Services area. This also helps us provide a lot of unique value added services to the clients via Directed Spend initiative. Our services will be consumed by various markets across many geographies (US, Mexico, UK, Canada, China etc.)

What you'll do: 

- Architect machine learning solutions given an abstract business problem.

- Perform hands-on data exploration, processing, and analysis on massive data sets.

- Use state-of-the-art machine learning, deep learning, and data mining techniques to develop proof-of-concept predictive models.

- Lead MLOPs lifecycle from end-to-end, including solution design, feature engineering, solution development, tools, testing, tuning, and monitoring.

- Design scalable, low-latency services to host predictive models; productionize prototypes on the cloud

- Communicate the results to stakeholders and present the projects in internal or external conferences.

- Research and develop advanced algorithms and techniques that address complex business problems.

- Utilize the broad and deep knowledge of Machine Learning and Software Engineering to contribute to the team's core machine learning capabilities.

- Mentor, coach and strengthen the technical expertise within the team.

What you’ll bring: 

- Technical expertise in machine learning, deep learning, statistical analysis, and software development.

- Proficient in data mining, machine learning, and deep learning packages in Python/Tensorflow/Keras.

- Experience working with large data sets and cloud computing (Hive, Spark, GCP, or Azure).

- Proficient in coding SQL, Python, Java, or Javascript. 

- A proven track record of leading innovation such as Medium Blog, patents, or conference presentation is preferred.

- Advanced degree (Master or PhD) in any STEM field plus 14+ years of related experience.

- Ability to work in a fast-paced, iterative development environment.

- Good communication skills, ability to work with cross-functional teams of technical and non-technical associates.

- 8+ years of experience providing technical and architectural guidance in a technical lead or architect role.

- Experience in MLOps is a plus.

- Experience with GCP services like Vertex AI and Kubeflow are desirable but not required.

- Exposure to core Java, spring suite of products, complex microservice integration design patterns, messaging and pub sub frameworks is a plus.

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 2.3 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. 

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 many best-in-class benefits like maternity and parental leave, PTO, health benefits, and more. 

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 and5 years’ experience in software engineering or related area.
Option 2: 7 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 3 years' experience in software engineering or related area.

Primary Location...

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