GROUP DIRECTOR, SOFTWARE ENGINEERING
Walmart · Posted Oct 4
Retail, e-commerce, grocery, pharmacy, and membership warehouse services
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About the role
The Data Services team in Bangalore is functionally responsible for all Big Data, Analytics and Data Warehousing services for Walmart, operating infrastructure services for an exabyte-scale data lake across Google, Azure, and Private clouds. The organization's work spans Big Data processing, data warehousing (Big Query, Trino), distributed systems, platform engineering, and Generative AI native products. This Group Director role owns the long-term engineering vision and platform strategy, leading the team that builds and scales Walmart's data lake, warehouse, and analytics platforms while driving platform consolidation, reliability, cost, and security.
What you will do
- Build and operate the infrastructure services for exabyte scale data lake at Walmart on Google, Azure, and Private clouds.
- Leverage and optimize data warehousing services – Big Query, Trino and other data warehousing services - to enable data engineering, data science and business analytics teams.
- Oversees execution of large-scale projects: Manages complex projects and programs, develops solutions and contingency plans, and manages budgets and expenditures.
- Hiring: Develops and implements strategies to attract, retain, and develop a highly skilled and engaged engineering teams, supporting mentorship, development, and succession planning.
- Performance Monitoring: Establishes metrics and systems to track success of operational initiatives, including Availability (TTD, TTR), Cost(Infra cost and utilization) and Security(Authentication, Authorization and Auditing).
- Strategic Planning: Develops multi-year plans to improve performance, profit and loss, and customer experience; supports LRP planning and budgeting.
- Learning & Development: Drives initiatives to enhance learning, training effectiveness, and agent proficiency.
- Cultivates an environment of integrity: Integrates company standards of integrity and ethics into all programs and practices, supports the Open Door Policy, and ensures compliance.
- Stakeholder Engagement: Builds relationships with key stakeholders, supports community outreach, and drives execution of business solutions.
- Risk Management: Identifies and mitigates operational risks, ensuring business continuity and consistent quality.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- Data lake experience with Spark, Hadoop, Iceberg, Hudi, Hive, Ranger and related service deployments at scale.
- Operational Excellence at scale. Operate large scale services with high availability and low costs.
- Leadership. Build strong engineering teams with big data experience.
- Project Management. Ability to drive complex OKRs and Programs.
- Performance and Cost Monitoring. Ability to drive cost optimizations with infrastructure and application performance tuning.
- Strategic Planning. Ability to drive long term Big Data strategies enabling the next generation of AI driven applications.
- Learning & Development. Ability to mentor and grow teams.
- Respect the Individual: Builds high-performing teams, embraces diversity, fosters belonging, and empowers associates.
- Act with Integrity: Maintains high standards of ethics and compliance, models company values, and supports sustainability and community initiatives.
- Serve Customers and Members: Delivers business results with a customer-first mindset, leveraging data and analytics.
- Strive for Excellence: Drives continuous improvement, innovation, and adoption of new technology.
- Option 1: Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or related area and 8 years’ experience in software engineering or related area.
- Option 2: 10 years’ experience in software engineering or related area.
- 5 years’ supervisory experience.
Preferred qualifications
- Master’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or related area and 6 years' experience in software engineering or related area, We value candidates with a background in creating inclusive digital experiences, demonstrating knowledge in implementing Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 AA standards, assistive technologies, and integrating digital accessibility seamlessly. The ideal candidate would have knowledge of accessibility best practices and join us as we continue to create accessible products and services following Walmart’s accessibility standards and guidelines for supporting an inclusive culture.
Benefits and support
- Incentive awards for performance
- Maternity and parental leave
- PTO
- Health benefits
- Flexibility for associates to manage their personal lives
About Walmart
Walmart Inc. is an American multinational retail corporation that operates a chain of hypermarkets, discount department stores, and grocery stores. As one of the world's largest companies by revenue, it serves millions of customers daily through physical stores and robust e-commerce platforms. The company is driven by a commitment to everyday low prices and an expanding suite of digital and convenience-focused services.
- Industry
- Retail
- Company size
- 2000000+ employees
- Founded
- 1962
- Location
- Bentonville, Arkansas, USA
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Leadership
President and CEO
Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Executive Vice President, Global Chief Technology Officer and Chief Development Officer
Executive Vice President and Chief Growth Officer
President and CEO, Walmart U.S.
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