Software Engineer III

Position: Software Engineer III 

Job Location: 805 Moberly Lane, Bentonville, AR 72716 

Duties: Assists in providing guidance to small groups of two to three engineers, including offshore associates, for assigned Engineering projects by proving pertinent documents, directions, examples, and timeline. Provides support to the business by responding to user questions, concerns, and issues (for example, technical feasibility, implementation strategies); researching and identifying needed solutions; determining implementation designs; providing guidance regarding implications of new and enhanced systems; identifying short- and long-term solutions; and directing users to appropriate contacts for issues outside of associate's domain. Manages small to large-sized complex projects by reviewing project requirements; translating requirements into technical solutions; researching and identifying alternative solutions; determining needed solution based on return on investment and value add to the business; gathering requested information (for example, design documents, product requirements, wire frames); writing and developing code; conducting unit testing; communicating status and issues to team members and stakeholders; collaborating with project team and cross functional teams; identifying areas of opportunity; interpreting information and identifying a solution; ensuring solution is sustainable across implementation and use; troubleshooting open issues and bug-fixes; and ensuring on-time delivery and hand-offs. Troubleshoots business and production issues by gathering information (for example, issue, impact, criticality, possible root cause); performing root cause analysis to reduce future issues; engaging support teams to assist in the resolution of issues; developing solutions; driving the development of an action plan; performing actions as designated in the plan; interpreting the results to determine further action; and completing online documentation. Participates in the discovery phase of small to medium-sized projects to come up with high level design by partnering with the product management, project management, business, and user experience teams. 

Minimum education and experience required: Master's degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field. Position does not require specific years of experience but requires listed skills. 

Skills required: Must have experience with: Developing scalable and performant cloud native; Microservices and platforms with Kotlin/Spring Boot and Javascript/Node.js; Building front-end components with Svelte, React/Redux and GraphQL; Creating and maintaining fully automated CI/CD pipelines and scripts for application deployments using Looper/Jenkins and GitHub; Designing and building RESTful APIs using Java, Spring Boot, Hibernate and Spring Batch; Data modeling and querying in relational (SQL) and non-relational (NoSQL) database technologies (Big Query, Azure SQL, Cosmos DB, Cassandra); High volume, low latency messaging infrastructure and building real time and batch data driven applications with Spark, Kafka, Elasticsearch and Cassandra; DevOps focus with experience in building and deploying infrastructure and services with cloud deployment technologies in Azure and GCP; Developing web services and project-specific APIs/processes as per requirements with effective usage of object-oriented programming concepts, data structures/design patterns and algorithms; Utilizing open-source libraries, frameworks/packaging tools like Maven and NPM, SDKs, and testing (unit, integration, and performance testing with JUnit and Automation) to ensure service stability and optimize performance of applications; Production system operations including logging, telemetry and alerting utilizing tools like Splunk, Dynatrace, ELK, and Grafana; Building and maintaining ETL pipelines to migrate data from and to different data stores (DB2, Big Query, Google Cloud Storage and Elastic search) using Spark and/or Spring Batch. Employer will accept any amount of experience with the required skills. 

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Wal-Mart is an Equal Opportunity Employer.