(IND) STAFF, 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...

What you'll do:

• Design, build, test and deploy cutting edge solutions at scale, impacting millions of customers worldwide drive value from data at Walmart Scale
• Develop high performance and scalable solutions/APIs that extract, transform, and load Spark/big data.
• Experience performing root cause analysis on data and processes to answer specific business questions and identify opportunities for improvement.
• Experience building and optimising ‘spark/big data’ data pipelines, architectures and data sets involving petabyte and terabyte of data.
• 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 product features to keep platform ahead of market scenarios.
• Closely interact with Engineers from within Walmart to identify right open-source tools to deliver product features by performing research, POC/Pilot.
• Engage with Product Management and Business to support and build data solutions and develop expertise w.r.t data thereby being known as the true data analyst.
• You also get to collaborate with team members to develop best practices and client requirements for the software.
• You will show your skills in analysing and testing programs/products before formal launch to ensure flawless performance.
• Software security is of prime importance and by developing programs that monitor sharing of private information, you will be able to add tremendous credibility to your work.
• You will also be required to seek ways to improve the software and its effectiveness.
• You will be called upon to support the coaching and training of other team members to ensure all employees are confident in the use of software applications.

What you'll bring:

• 10 -14 years of experience in design and development of highly-scalable applications and platform development. 
• Strong computer science fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, design patterns
• Develop high performance and scalable solutions that extract, transform, and load Spark/big data.
• Working knowledge of SQL /No-SQL and database technologies (Big Query, Data Bricks, Cosmos, Druid)
• Hands on experience in building Micro-services, ability to build REST services using Java, Spring Boot.
• Experience on Cloud Architecture, Micro-services Architecture and container technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, etc.)
• Hands-on experience with event-based system processing such as Kafka
• Experience in deploying solutions on any of these cloud platforms (Azure, GCP)
• Work exposure on Agile methodologies and DevOps would be added advantage
• Well versed with Testing frameworks like JUnits
• CI/CD Automation experience with tools like Git, Maven, Jenkins & Azure DevOps
• Strong hands on development skills to prototype technical & innovative solutions
• Ability to balance the long-term "big picture" and short-term implications of design decisions
• Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills - including negotiation, facilitation, and consensus building skills; ability to influence and persuade, without direct control
• Practitioner of Agile (Scrum) methodology.

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 4 years’ experience in software engineering or related area.Option 2: 6 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 2 years' experience in software engineering or related area

Primary Location...

G, 1, 3, 4, 5 Floor, Building 11, Sez, Cessna Business Park, Kadubeesanahalli Village, Varthur Hobli , India