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Join Walmart as Director, Software Engineering – Finance Technology in our Global Technology EBS team. Your work could help over 240 million global customers live better every week. Yes, we are the Fortune #1 company. But you'll quickly find we're a company who wants you to feel comfortable bringing your whole self to work. A career at Walmart is where the world's most complex challenges meet a kinder way of life. Our mission spreads far beyond the walls of our stores. Join us and you'll discover why we are a world leader in belonging, sustainability, and community involvement. From day one, you'll be empowered and equipped to do the best work of your life.

Walmart's Enterprise Business Services (EBS) is a powerhouse of seven exceptional teams delivering world-class technology solutions and services making a profound impact at every level of Walmart. As a key part of Walmart Global Tech, our teams set the bar for operational excellence and leverage emerging technology to support millions of customers, associates, and stakeholders worldwide. Joining EBS means embarking on a journey of limitless growth, relentless innovation, and the chance to set new industry standards that shape the future of Walmart.

About the Team:

As a Director, Software Engineering in the Finance Tech teams at Walmart, you will be instrumental in defining the architectural vision and strategy for our Fin Tech systems and implementing them. Your primary responsibility will be to design, develop, and oversee the implementation of robust, scalable, and efficient architectural solutions for Finance associates.

What You'll Do:

As a director, you will be instrumental in defining the technical vision and architecture of systems, ensuring they meet performance, security, and scalability requirements. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, guide engineering efforts, and lead the adoption of cutting-edge technologies to build reliable, high-quality software solutions that are loved by your customers. You will own attracting, developing, and growing top engineering talent while fostering a culture of innovation and high performance.

• Build, develop and guide high-performing talent. Define a long term talent strategy cutting across technology. Provide supervision, mentoring and development opportunities for the team who report into you.
• 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 CI/CD stage gates for the applications
• Drive implementation of telemetry features based on the domain requirements to improve the overall operational excellence of the application
• 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
• 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

What You'll Bring:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or related area and 15+ years experience in software engineering or related area.
• Deep working knowledge of all aspects of Cloud native distributed system development: Azure/ GCP/ WCNP preferred
• Experience working with micro-services architecture and distributed systems.
• Experience managing software development engineers, leaders, architects and leading engineering projects, guiding engineering teams on engineering excellence ; solid system design
• Experience partnering with cross-functional project development and in collaborating with other scrum teams, QA, Release Management, Program Management, and TechOps
• Proven experience in the design, development, and scaling of software platforms for large user bases, focusing on modularity and extensibility.
• Platform-focused decision-making, balancing technical and business needs in fast-paced, complex environments to ensure performance and scalability.
• Experience collaborating with geographically distributed teams to align on platform goals.
• Strong business acumen, integrating technical vision with strategic business insights.

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 & Perks

Beyond competitive pay, you can receive incentive awards for your performance. Other great perks include 401(k) match, stock purchase plan, paid maternity and parental leave, PTO, multiple health plans, 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.