Position Summary...
Provides overall direction by analyzing business objectives and customer needs; developing, communicating, building support for, and implementing business strategies, plans, and practices; analyzing costs and forecasts and incorporating them into business plans; determining and supporting resource requirements; evaluating operational processes; measuring outcomes to ensure desired results; identifying and capitalizing on improvement opportunities; promoting a customer environment; and demonstrating adaptability and sponsoring continuous learning. 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. Develops and leverages internal and external partnerships and networks to maximize the achievement of business goals by sponsoring and leading key community outreach and involvement initiatives; engaging key stakeholders in the development, execution, and evaluation of appropriate business plans and initiatives; and supporting associate efforts in these areas.
What you'll do...
About Team:
The SPI team is presently building out the next generation data platform and applications to enabling us to optimize our decisions and support Walmart’s EDLP/EDLC strategy. The team provides key insights and metrics to support the USD 132B+ sourcing business. Commodity trends and risk forecasting, raw materials tracking, surety of supply, supplier performance are some of the important areas that are supported by the data platform.
What you'll do:
- Define and execute a comprehensive data & analytics platform strategy to align with Walmart Sourcing business goals and vision.
- Drive innovation, ensure best practices, and lead the team to deliver high-quality solutions.
- Be a tech advisor for product managers, business, and leadership for key decisions on capability development, tech decisions, timeline/prioritization decisions and rollout strategy.
- Serve as a subject matter expert for data platform architecture, design patterns, and implementation. Stay current with industry trends and emerging technologies BigData systems.
- Designing, building, productionizing, optimizing, operating, and maintaining large scale Data systems for Walmart.
- Collaborate with architects to design scalable, secure, and robust analytics solutions that meet the evolving needs of our products and customers. Provide architectural oversight and ensure adherence to best practices.
- Work closely with cross-functional teams including Product Management, UI/UX Design, Quality Assurance, and DevOps to ensure seamless integration of data platform APIs and components within our product ecosystem.
- Identify potential security risks and compliance issues related to data platforms. Implement strategies to mitigate risks and ensure data protection and privacy.
- Interacting with downstream customers and core development team to define integration points and support model output management.
- Champion engineering & operational excellence and proactively lead technical decisions in the team. Coach/mentor the team to help them achieve their full potential.
- Working with Platform & Cloud Ops to size and optimize the infra & platform services required for the data platform and analytics applications.
- Lead a team of skilled engineers, architects, and developers focused on data platform and analytics application implementation. Provide mentorship, guidance, and professional development to team members.
What you'll bring:
- Proven experience in building high-performance teams and scalable best-practices in SaaS/Online/Enterprise Product engineering organization.
- 15+ years of overall experience with at least 5 years of experience as a people manager, handling teams of 20+ engineers.
- Strong technical aptitude and proven experience in architecture, design, and delivery of software systems.
- Experience with CI/CD processes and design for high scale, availability, testability, and extensibility.
- Excellent logical and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to organize, prioritize and schedule a high workload and multiple parallel projects efficiently.
- Excellent verbal and written communication with stakeholders in a matrixed environment. Building partnerships is a critical expectation for this role.
- Long term experience with at least one product from inception to completion and evolution of the product over multiple years.
- Building for “as a service” model where components are multi-tenant, customize-able and leverage-able across Walmart’s business verticals, and potentially with a partner ecosystem.
- Strong Experience working with big data technologies such as Spark/Storm/Hadoop/Data Lake Architectures will be a plus.
- Strong expertise in creating platform architecture for large scale Data engineering for full cycle development will be a plus.
Required Technical Skills
- Languages - Java/J2EE, Python, Scala
- Micro Services Architecture, Event Driven Architectures
- Cloud - GCP, Azure
- Messaging Queuing - ApacheMQ, Kafka, RabbitMQ
- Database - DB2, MSSQL, MySQL, Cassandra, Elastic Search
Desirable Technical Skills
- Data: Spark, Storm, and other similar distributed data/ML processing platforms
- ML/DL platforms: Spark
Leadership Expertise
- Stakeholder management, creating influence in the organization.
- Build and retain a world class engineering team!
- Transformational leadership, ability to understand/navigate and transform.
- Customer Obsessed and Results Driven.
- Manage Employee Relations & Performance Management.
- Drive innovation and speed in execution.
Our Ideal candidate
Our ideal candidate is energetic; self-motivated individual focused on solving customer problems. He/she is someone who thrives in a fun, fast-paced, dynamic environment.
- Should have deep interest and passion for technology.
- Should be enthusiastic and excited about cloud computing and its impact on solving business problems at scale.
- Should have strong problem solving, analytical, decision-making, communication, and interpersonal skills and should be a team player.
- Should have strong consulting and relationship skills to build long lasting relationships with Walmart business and technology teams.
About Walmart Global Tech
Imagine working in an environment where one line of code can make life easier for hundreds of millions of people. That’s what we do at Walmart Global Tech. We’re a team of software engineers, data scientists, cybersecurity expert's and service professionals within the world’s 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 that is primarily in office coupled with virtual when not onsite. Our campuses serve as a hub to enhance collaboration, bring us together for purpose and deliver on business needs. This approach helps us make quicker decisions, remove location barriers across our global team and be more flexible in our personal lives.
Benefits:
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.
Equal Opportunity Employer:
Walmart, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity 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 diversity- unique styles, experiences, identities, ideas and opinions – while being inclusive of all people.
The above information has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed in the role. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all responsibilities and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job. The full Job Description can be made available as part of the hiring process.
Minimum Qualifications...
Outlined below are the required minimum qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no minimum qualifications.
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...
Pardhanani Wilshire II, Cessna Business Park, Kadubeesanahalli Village, Varthur Hobli , India
