(IND) STAFF, SOFTWARE ENGINEER
Walmart Global Tech · Posted Oct 14
Software development, cloud infrastructure, and retail technology services for Walmart
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About the role
The Walmart Payroll Modernization Team owns the strategy, design, implementation, and continuous evolution of next-generation payroll platforms that pay more than 1.6 million associates accurately and on time while meeting complex regulatory requirements. The team works at the intersection of product, engineering, and payroll operations, building and integrating SAP Payroll capabilities with HR, finance, tax, banking, and third-party systems. This Staff Software Engineer role leads the design, development, and support of SAP ABAP and SAP Payroll solutions, including payroll calculations, taxation, year-end activities, and enterprise-scale integrations.
What you will do
- Be part of one of the world's largest Payroll Modernization programs, delivering payroll solutions that support more than 1.6 million associates every month across a highly complex enterprise ecosystem.
- Design, build, and enhance payroll capabilities across SAP Payroll, supporting accurate, compliant, and timely payroll processing at enterprise scale.
- Lead the design and implementation of payroll features including payroll calculations, retroactive accounting, taxation, garnishments, benefits deductions, time integration, off-cycle payments, payroll corrections, and year-end activities.
- Collaborate with Product, Engineering, HR, Finance, Tax, and Compliance teams to translate business requirements into scalable and supportable payroll solutions.
- Support complex payroll requirements, including multi-state taxation, federal, state, and local tax regulations, supplemental payments, wage attachments, and evolving legislative requirements.
- Drive payroll solution quality through detailed design reviews, impact assessments, payroll testing strategies, and production readiness activities.
- Investigate and resolve complex payroll issueecs by performing root cause analysis,
- Partner with cross-functional teams to deliver seamless integrations between payroll, time management, HR systems, finance applications, tax providers, banking partners, and third-party vendors.
- Contribute to payroll modernization efforts by identifying opportunities to simplify processes, reduce technical debt, improve automation, and enhance payroll operational efficiency.
- Support payroll year-end activities, Upgrades, HRSP implmenetation
- Champion operational excellence by improving payroll reliability, scalability, performance, observability, and supportability while maintaining a strong focus on associate experience and business outcomes.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- 10+ years of experience in designing, developing, and delivering enterprise-scale SAP solutions, with strong expertise in SAP ABAP, SAP ABAP HR and related SAP technologies.
- Deep technical expertise in ABAP, ABAP HR, ABAP OO, CDS Views, AMDP, OData Services, Enhancements, Forms, Interfaces, Workflow, and SAP Integration technologies.
- Proven experience in designing and building scalable, high-performance applications and integrations across SAP and non-SAP platforms.
- Experience in tools such as EPI-USE Variance Monitor, and other SOLMAN/ALM Tools.
- Solid understanding of SAP Payroll architecture and payroll processing lifecycle including Payroll Functions/operations,
- Experience integrating SAP solutions with enterprise platforms such as Workday, ServiceNow, SAP Finance (FI), SuccessFactors, cloud services, and custom applications.
- Demonstrated ability to translate complex business requirements into robust, scalable, and maintainable technical solutions.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to effectively engage technical and business stakeholders.
- Strong collaboration, stakeholder management, and influencing skills, with experience working across products, engineering, architecture, and business teams.
- Experience working in agile product organizations and supporting highly available, business-critical payroll services.
- Experience supporting payroll populations exceeding 50,000 employees in complex enterprise environments.
- Demonstrated experience leading critical payroll initiatives through design, testing, deployment, and production stabilization.
Benefits and support
- Incentive awards for performance
- Maternity and parental leave
- PTO
- Health benefits
About Walmart Global Tech
Walmart Global Tech is the technological powerhouse and engineering arm of Walmart Inc., responsible for building and managing foundational technologies, cloud infrastructure, and software systems. The organization powers global retail operations across Walmart U.S., Sam's Club, and Walmart International, delivering customer experiences and enterprise services worldwide. Operating across multiple global hubs, it unites engineering, data science, product design, and artificial intelligence to digitally transform retail.
- Industry
- Information Technology
- Company size
- 25000+ employees
- Founded
- 2011
- Location
- Bentonville, Arkansas, USA
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Leadership
Executive Vice President, Global Chief Technology Officer and Chief Development Officer
Executive Vice President, AI Acceleration, Product and Design
Senior Vice President and Tech Operating Partner, Walmart International