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:

LMD stands for Last Mile Delivery which is Walmart’s platform Spark Program and responsible store for customer delivery with the help of mainly Spark Drivers. It provides a one-stop solution to help Walmart expand its last mile delivery network by connecting Walmart Stores to most of the US population.

Last Mile has been made available as a Service for external clients (outside of Walmart Network). This team owns and supports a complex system which is responsible for delivering more than million orders and providing best of experience to our customer, drivers and operations. It’s built upon some latest tech stack and multiple experiences powered by ML models.

What you will do:

• Hire, Develop and Retain a strong team of software engineers for GIF's newest expansion MFC

• You will work in our own internal open stack cloud, Azure, using several technologies including but not limited to JAVA, Spring, Kafka, Azure SQL DB, REST APIs, Python, Node JS, Golang etc.

• Help define Roadmap and own the entire delivery end to end

• Work very closely with different product and business stakeholders at various locations in US and India to drive the execution of multiple business plans and technologies

• Support business objectives by collaborating with business partners to define priorities, identify opportunities and drive resolutions

• Independently own and address and resolve applications issues, provide updates and drive root cause analysis including identifying issue patterns and working with Engg teams to address them

• Responsible for coming up with processes to improve developer productivity, incident support metrics like backlog, MTTR, INC SLAs etc

• Plan, execute and implement applications and configuration change procedures

• Drive Engineering and Operational Excellence for owned services

• Conceptualize the idea for process improvements and/or automation frameworks that will make for more effective Support engagement

• Exhibit strong leadership and communication skills to collaborate with product, engineering, support and management teams across different geographic locations

• Gain and maintain expertise in flow of application process and systems related to domain

• Flexibility - responsibilities may require occasional evening and weekend work

• demonstrating deep passion and curiosity for technology

What you will bring:

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

• 10+ years of relevant experience, Minimum of 7 years of experience with agile principles and practices. Experience in leading Scrum teams.

• Hands on experience in managing operations teams for scalable cloud native software platforms/applications

• Very strong understanding and experience in the area of software development lifecycle.

• Strong Java/J2EE, Spring skills.

• Working knowledge in a Cloud based service.

• Strong understanding of CS Fundamentals, Data Structures, Algorithms and Problem Solving

• Ability to code/Script in one of the languages (C#, Python and Java) and working knowledge of SQL and Databases is must

• Worked on monitoring (Dynatrace/Appdynamics) and alerting tools (Xmatters/PagerDuty)

• Mentoring team on technology and process for automation need

Technical Skills:
Core Skills : JAVA,J2EE, Scripting (Shell/Python) - Any one preferable
DataBase: SQL Database - Must have
Messaging and communication: Kafka/RESTful - Basic debugging knowledge
App monitoring tools: Splunk, Dynatrace/Appdynamics - Strong debugging knowledge
Cloud Technologies: MS Azure, GCP and Open Stack - Basic debugging knowledge

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. We are people-led and tech-empowered. We train our team in the skillsets of the future and bring in experts like you to help us grow. We have roles for those chasing their first opportunity as well as those looking for the opportunity that will define their career. Here, you can kickstart a great career in tech, gain new skills and experience for virtually every industry, or leverage your expertise to innovate at scale, impact millions and reimagine the future of retail

Flexible, hybrid work:

We use a hybrid way of working that is primarily in office coupled with virtual when not onsite. Our campuses serve as a hub to enhance collaboration, bring us together for purpose and deliver on business needs. This approach helps us make quicker decisions, remove location barriers across our global team and 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