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:

The Enterprise People Technology team supports the successful deployment and adoption of new People technology across the enterprise. As a Fortune #1 company, our work impacts millions of associates globally. We strive to continuously improve people technology and products to help managers and associates so they can focus on what matters most - supporting our customers and members. People Technology is one of the major segments of Walmart Global Tech’s Enterprise Business Services, which is invested in building a compact, robust organization that includes service operations and technology solutions for Finance, People, and the Associate Digital Experience

What you'll do:

• Manage a high performing team of 8-10 engineers who work across multiple technology stacks including Java and NodeJs
• Drive design, development, implementation and documentation
• Establish best engineering and operational excellence practices based on product, engineering and scrum metrics
• Interact with Walmart engineering teams across geographies to leverage expertise and contribute to the tech community.
• Engage with Product and Business stakeholders to drive the agenda, set the priorities and deliver scalable and resilient products.
• Work closely with the Architects and cross functional teams and follow established practices for the delivery of solutions meeting QCD (Quality, Cost & Delivery) within the established architectural guidelines.
• Work with senior leadership to chart out the future roadmap of the products
• Participate in hiring, mentoring and building high performing agile teams.
• Participating in organizational events like hackathons, demodays etc. and be the catalyst towards the success of those events
• Interact closely for requirements with Business owners and technical teams both within India and across the globe.

What you'll bring:

• Bachelor's/Master’s degree in Computer Science, engineering, or related field, with minimum 12+ years of experience in software development and at least 5+ years of experience in managing engineering teams.
• Have prior experience in managing high performing agile technology teams.
• Hands on experience building Java-Scala-Spark based backend systems is a must, and experience of working in cloud based solutions is desirable
• Proficient in Javascript, NodeJS, ReactJS and NextJS.
• A good understanding of CS Fundamentals, Microservices, Data Structures, Algorithms & Problem Solving
• Should have exposed to CI/CD development environments/tools including, but not limited to, Git, Maven, Jenkins.
• Strong in writing modular and testable code and test cases (unit, functional and integration) using frameworks like JUnit, Mockito, and Mock MVC
• Should be experienced in microservices architecture. Possesses good understanding of distributed concepts, common design principles, design patterns and cloud native development concepts. 
• Hands-on experience in Spring boot, concurrency, garbage collection, RESTful services, data caching services and ORM tools. 
• Experience working with Relational Database and writing complex OLAP, OLTP and SQL queries. 
• Experience in working with NoSQL Databases like cosmos DB. 
• Experience in working with Caching technology like Redis, Mem cache or other related Systems. 
• Good knowledge in Pub sub system like Kafka. 
• Experience utilizing monitoring and alert tools like Prometheus, Splunk, and other related systems and excellent in debugging and troubleshooting issues. 
• Exposure to Containerization tools like Docker, Helm, Kubernetes. 
• Knowledge of public cloud platforms like Azure, GCP etc. will be an added advantage.

About Walmart Global Tech
Imagine working in an environment where one line of code can make life easier for hundreds of millions of people.  That’s what we do at Walmart Global Tech. We’re a team of software engineers, data scientists, cybersecurity expert's and service professionals within the world’s leading retailer who make an epic impact and are at the forefront of the next retail disruption. People are why we innovate, and people power our innovations. 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 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...

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