SENIOR DIRECTOR, SOFTWARE ENGINEERING
Walmart Global Tech · Posted Oct 1
Software development, cloud infrastructure, and retail technology services for Walmart
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About the role
Global Catalog sits at the heart of Walmart's commerce ecosystem, powering product experiences across online and in-store journeys for millions of customers worldwide and enabling suppliers and sellers to create and manage product experiences. The Senior Director of Engineering, based in the Bengaluru office, will lead a core area within Global Catalog, working with peer engineering leaders and partners across Product, Business, and Data Science to modernize product content processing and advance scalable catalog capabilities. The role owns engineering strategy and execution for product content processing systems, scalable content pipelines, platform architecture including emerging agentic interactions, and the technology roadmap supporting Walmart's global commerce experiences.
What you will do
- Own the engineering strategy and execution for core product content processing systems, which serve as a source of truth for product content used across Walmart's digital product experiences, including product detail pages.
- Lead the evolution of scalable pipelines that process product content from suppliers, sellers, and external brand sources, including images and videos, within defined service-level expectations, while advancing reusable capabilities for matching, ranking, merging, variants, and relationship processing to improve the accuracy, consistency, and quality of product content at scale.
- Guide the architecture for emerging agentic interactions where they intersect with Catalog, partnering with enterprise teams to align on reusable patterns and platform capabilities.
- Define and execute the technology roadmap for this portfolio, balancing foundational platform investments with near-term business priorities and customer outcomes.
- Partner with Product, Business, Data Science, and Operations leaders to clarify priorities, make informed trade-offs, and deliver measurable outcomes for customers, sellers, suppliers, merchants, and associates.
- Lead the design and operation of scalable, reliable, secure, and resilient distributed systems across the assigned Global Catalog portfolio.
- Develop engineering leaders and senior technical talent, fostering clear ownership, sound engineering practices, operational discipline, and continuous improvement.
- Improve platform effectiveness, catalog quality, engineering productivity, and cost efficiency through data, automation, and appropriate use of AI.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- 18+ years of technology and engineering leadership experience, leading engineering managers, senior engineers, and architects. Strong experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems, with a focus on reliability, availability, performance, security, and operational excellence.
- Experience leading platform, commerce, marketplace, or enterprise product engineering teams and delivering meaningful business and customer outcomes at scale.
- Provides architectural guidance and solution review across multiple backend (for example, Java, Python, Go, Rust), technologies.
- Drive standardization and reuse of architectural patterns, frameworks, and AI tooling across domains to accelerate time-to-market, reduce technical debt, and ensure architectural integrity.
- Strong technical and architectural judgment across modern software platforms, cloud technologies, data-intensive systems, AI/ML-enabled capabilities, and platform engineering practices.
- Ability to define and execute multi-year technology roadmaps while balancing foundational investments, operational priorities, and near-term delivery commitments.
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, with experience building alignment across Engineering, Product, Business, Data Science, and Operations through collaboration and influence.
- Proven ability to build and develop high-performing engineering teams, strengthen leadership capability, and foster a culture of accountability and engineering excellence.
- BS/MS in Computer Science or a related technical field, with experience in eCommerce, marketplace, commerce platforms, or large-scale product organisations preferred.
- This is an opportunity to lead a core Global Catalog engineering portfolio and help strengthen the product content capabilities that support Walmart's customers, sellers, suppliers, and associates worldwide.
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