(IND) Senior Manager, Software Engineering

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...

About Team:

This is the team which builds reusable technologies that aid in acquiring customers, onboarding and empowering merchants besides ensuring a seamless experience for both these stakeholders. We also optimize tariffs and assortment, adhering to the Walmart philosophy - Everyday Low Cost. In addition to ushering in affordability, we also create personalized experiences for customers the omnichannel way, across all channels - in-store, on the mobile app and websites.  

 

Marketplace is the gateway to domestic and international Third-Party sellers; we enable them to manage their end-to-end onboarding, catalog management, order fulfilment, return & refund management. Our team is responsible for design, development, and operations of large-scale distributed systems by leveraging cutting-edge technologies in web/mobile, cloud, big data & AI/ML.  We interact with multiple teams across the company to provide scalable robust technical solutions.  

 

What you’ll do:

As Senior Engineering Manager you would be responsible to: 

·       Understand Marketplace problems, through direct communication with product/business, by analysing data, and by working with other engineering/business/program/product stakeholders. 

·       Help define the technical roadmap to solve the business and product problems by building solutions as multi-tenant, scalable and extensible platform approach. 

·       Own the entire product delivery end to end. 

·       Work very closely with various business stakeholders to drive the execution of multiple business plans and technologies 

·       Responsible for leading one or more distributed scrum teams and accountable for their deliverables 

·       Work with senior leadership to chart out the future roadmap of the products 

·       Interact closely for requirements with Business owners and technical teams both within India and across the globe. 

·       Improve, optimize and identify opportunities for efficient software development processes 

·       Hire, Develop and Retain a strong team of high performing engineers 

·       Work closely with cross geo teams within Walmart. 

 

What you’ll bring:

Minimum qualifications: 

·       An Engineering Degree - B.E/B.Tech/MS/PhD in any stream – Computer Science preferred. 

·       13+ years of relevant experience in building highly resilient, highly scalable systems 

·       4+ years of leadership/management experience with a team of 10+ members, with experience of senior/lead engineers in the team.  

·       A good understanding of CS Fundamentals, Data Structures, Algorithms & Problem Solving 

·       Hands on experience with Java ( must to have), Nodejs or Python, Cloud ( AWS, Azure ), DevOps CICD tools, relational DBMS ( MySQL, Oracle etc ) & non-relational DBMS ( MongoDB, CosmosDB etc ) with big data technologies ( Kafka, Spark, Airflow etc ). 

·       Understand the product and project management space with Agile methodologies. 

·       Experience across the product development SDLC 

·       Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills – including negotiation, facilitation, and consensus building skills; ability to influence and persuade. 

·       Ability to balance the long-term "big picture" and short term implications of design decisions. 

·       Strong hands on development skills to prototype technical solutions. 

·       Strong desire to drive change, innovate and ability to adapt to change quickly. 

·       Proficient in new and emerging technologies. 

 

Additional Qualifications:  

·       Exposure to cloud infrastructures, such as Open Stack, Azure, GCP, or AWS 

·       Exposure to AI/ML, Data Analytics, Data Science is good to have.  

·       Experience with Full Stack development is desirable.  

 

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. 

 

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.

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

 

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 and 5 years’ experience in software engineering or related area. Option 2: 7 years’ experience in software engineering or related area.
2 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 3 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