DIRECTOR, SOFTWARE ENGINEERING

Position Summary...

• Influence, coach, and be a servant leader to multiple integration teams focused on transformative products within our People Technology space.
• Builds strong and trusting relationships with the business stakeholders with more engagement, collaboration, and facetime beyond the 4ITB meetings.
• Provide guidance in applying the right architectural pattern for the modernization of the applications by analyzing the gaps between existing architecture and new business requirements.
• Drive automation using more adoption and maturity on the CICD stage gates for the applications.
• Drive implementation of telemetry features based on the domain requirements to improve the overall operational excellence of the application.
• Knowledge of Software architecture, Distributed systems, Scalability, Design patterns, Disaster Recovery.
• Technical leadership in building a complex microservices based platform or product that are highly reliable, and scalable.
• Drive technical impact analysis, conduct RCAs with corrective actions for both short & long term fixes and prevent them from re-occurring.
• Develop close partnerships with our Product, People API, and Workday teams to drive innovation as we deliver on commitments to our business customers.
• Operating with excellence – Set an example in managing to KPIs, delivering excellence, presenting at all levels, and developing yourself and others.
• Analyze system performance impacting the complete product for non-functional requirements like reliability, operability, performance efficiency and security. 
• Develops and implements strategies to attract and maintain a highly skilled and engaged workforce by diagnosing capability gaps; recruiting, selecting, and developing talent; supporting mentorship, workforce development, and succession planning; and leveraging the capabilities of new and existing talent.
• Cultivates an environment where associates respect and adhere to company standards of integrity and ethics by integrating these values into all programs and practices; developing consequences for violations or non-compliance; and supporting the Open Door Policy.

What You'Ll Do...

Job Summary

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.

Enterprise Business Services @ IDC Bangalore and Chennai in India are focused on data driven, highly optimized products and implementations in the areas of Finance, Procurement, Human Resources and Retail business functions for multiple Walmart markets with open stack technologies and other ERP tools.

As a Director, Software Engineering you will be part of the People Technology team within Walmart Global Tech. We are defining the leading edge of technology to provide innovative solutions to our business customers to help support the millions of Associates employed at Walmart.

As part of Compensation domain, we have embarked on an exciting journey of modernizing and transforming the Compensation and Total Rewards platform which supports the 1.6M US associates and international associates across 22 countries with their compensation, bonus and equity vesting every year.

What you will do

• Influence, coach, and be a servant leader to multiple integration teams focused on transformative products within our People Technology space.
• Builds strong and trusting relationships with the business stakeholders with more engagement, collaboration, and facetime beyond the 4ITB meetings.
• Provide guidance in applying the right architectural pattern for the modernization of the applications by analyzing the gaps between existing architecture and new business requirements. 
• Drive automation using more adoption and maturity on the CICD stage gates for the applications. 
• Drive implementation of telemetry features based on the domain requirements to improve the overall operational excellence of the application.
• Knowledge of Software architecture, Distributed systems, Scalability, Design patterns, Disaster Recovery. 
• Technical leadership in building a complex microservices based platform or product that are highly reliable, and scalable. 
• Drive technical impact analysis, conduct RCAs with corrective actions for both short & long term fixes and prevent them from re-occurring. 
• Develop close partnerships with our Product, People API, and Workday teams to drive innovation as we deliver on commitments to our business customers.
• Operating with excellence – Set an example in managing to KPIs, delivering excellence, presenting at all levels, and developing yourself and others.
• Analyze system performance impacting the complete product for non-functional requirements like reliability, operability, performance efficiency and security.  
• Develops and implements strategies to attract and maintain a highly skilled and engaged workforce by diagnosing capability gaps; recruiting, selecting, and developing talent; supporting mentorship, workforce development, and succession planning; and leveraging the capabilities of new and existing talent.
• Cultivates an environment where associates respect and adhere to company standards of integrity and ethics by integrating these values into all programs and practices; developing consequences for violations or non-compliance; and supporting the Open Door Policy.

What You'Ll Bring:

• Deep working knowledge of all aspects of Cloud native distributed system development. Azure/ GCP/ WCNP preferred.
• Technical Proficiency in one or more of the languages such as Java, Python, React Native, Node JS, React JS, GraphQL 
• Experience working on a compensation or total rewards platform
• Experience working with micro-services architecture and distributed systems.
• Experience in all areas of engineering including DevOps, Chaos Engineering, SRE, and on-call rotations to assure service availability and operational excellence.
• Experience managing software development engineers, leaders, architects and leading engineering projects, guiding engineering teams on engineering excellence & solid system design.
• Experience in 360º people management, growing & grooming teams and to ensure the happiness and productivity of the team’s software engineers.
• Experience partnering with cross-functional project development and in collaborating with other scrum teams, QA, Release Management, Program Management, and TechOps.

Additional Comments

Minimum Qualifications (Manager's Ideal Candidate Must-Haves (skills required))

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field and minimum 10-12 years’ experience in software engineering Or master’s degree in computer science or related field and 8-10 years of work experience
• Minimum 5-7 years of people manager experience (including managing leaders) in driving and retaining a high-performance team.
• Minimum 6-8 years of experience building highly scalable, high performance, responsive software Applications.
• Highly technical hands-on and an effective people leader
• Proven industry experience with large scale distributed systems

Preferred Qualifications (Manager's Preferred Qualifications (3-5 "nice to haves")

• Experience working in any Compensation, total rewards platforms.
• Experience building resilient Tier 0 production system operations (logging, telemetry, alerting etc.)
• Attitude to thrive in a fun, fast-paced start-up like environment.
• Excellent communication and problem-solving skills
• Has ambition and vigor to add value to a rapidly growing development team.

About Walmart Global Tech
Imagine working in an environment where one line of code can make life easier for hundreds of millions of people. Thats what we do at Walmart Global Tech. Were a team of software engineers, data scientists, cybersecurity experts and service professionals within the worlds 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.

Belonging

We aim to create a culture where every associate feels valued for who they are, rooted in respect for the individual. Our goal is to foster a sense of belonging, to create opportunities for all our associates, customers and suppliers, and to be a Walmart for everyone.

At Walmart, our vision is ''everyone included.'' By fostering a workplace culture where everyone isand feelsincluded, everyone wins. Our associates and customers reflect the makeup of all 19 countries where we operate. By making Walmart a welcoming place where all people feel like they belong, were able to engage associates, strengthen our business, improve our ability to serve customers, and support the communities where we operate.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Walmart, Inc., is an Equal Opportunities 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 unique styles, experiences, identities, ideas and opinions while being welcoming of all people.

Minimum Qualifications...

Outlined below are the required minimum qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no minimum qualifications.

Option 1: Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or related area and6 years’ experience in software engineering or related area.
Option 2: 8 years’ experience in software engineering or related area.
3 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 4 years' experience in software engineering or related area

Primary Location...

Rmz Millenia Business Park, No 143, Campus 1B (1St -6Th Floor), Dr. Mgr Road, (North Veeranam Salai) Perungudi , India