Position Summary...

What you'll do...

We are seeking a talented and passionate Distinguished Architect to join our team, you will serve as a visionary hands-on leader, actively coding, setting the technical direction and architectural standards across multiple domains specially for out AI/ML consumer health solutions. You will drive enterprise-wide technology strategy, influence senior stakeholders, and ensure that Walmart’s solutions are innovative, scalable, secure to activate customers for healthier living and create value across multiple business segments. About the team: The Consumer Health and Data Solutions team consists of:

• Incubation: includes Walmart Everyday Health Signals (EHS), a health insights product, and Walmart's Nutrition Hub, which supports personalized healthy eating powered by EHS
• Digital Business Services: includes customer identity, digital engagement, and business analytics to support health and wellness lines of business

What you'll do: Architectural Strategy & Vision

• Define and champion architectural blueprints, standards, and best practices for consumer health solutions. 
• Architects AI services that deliver a healthier customer experience across all digital and in-store touchpoints.
• Set the vision for cross-domain and cross-platform integration, ensuring reusability, consistency, and future-readiness.

Technical Leadership & Execution 

• Lead the design and implementation of complex, enterprise-scale AI systems with a focus on performance, security, and maintainability
• Mentors senior engineering staff on advanced architectural patterns, trends, and coding standards. Drives engineering excellence and solid system design through hands-on guidance and project leadership.
• Design and oversee the development and deployment of automation, and CI/CD pipelines at scale.

Governance, Security, & Culture

• Influences the engineering vision for future architecture and technology stack evolution in health solutions, ensuring alignment with a strong security vision for data protection and compliance and robust security architecture across all products and platforms.
• Ensure compliance with security, privacy, and regulatory standards while optimizing system performance and reliability. 

What you'll bring:

• 10+ years of experience in software architecture and engineering leadership, specializing in retail tech, large-scale AI, and health solutions. Proven ability to design, develop, and scale modular and extensible platforms for large user bases.
• Expertise in modern architecture (microservices, event-driven, distributed computing) and cloud engineering (Azure, GCP, AWS). Deep proficiency in containerization (Kubernetes, Docker) and serverless architectures
• Strong Experience designing and implementing self-service ML deployment platforms and API gateways for enterprise environments 
• Experience with high-scale transactional systems, and real-time data streaming. 
• Proficiency in database technologies and deep understanding their designs and limitations (SQL and NoSQL)
• Proficiency in modern programming languages (Java, C++, Python, TypeScript). 
• Drives DevSecOps and CI/CD automation, focusing on observability and performance optimization. Strong grasp of CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitOps) and testing frameworks (Integration, Unit, etc.).
• Ability to influence senior executives, engineering teams, and cross-functional stakeholders and passion for growing engineering talent
• experienced in running large-scale data platforms. Skilled in writing clear design documentation and performing deep analysis and diagnosis of production issues
• Experienced in cross-functional collaboration (Scrum, QA, Release, Program, TechOps). Possesses strong business acumen, integrating technical vision with strategic insights, and demonstrates exceptional communication skills.

Bonus points:

• Familiar with machine learning and deep learning frameworks (TensorFlow, PyTorch). Experience with enterprise-scale production ML deployment.
• Expertise in agentic AI systems, multi-agent frameworks, and LLM-based agents. Skilled in architecting and implementing these AI solutions for complex challenges.
• Experience building intelligent observability and monitoring systems that use ML for anomaly detection 
• Experience developing self-healing infrastructure platforms that leverage AI to predict, prevent, and automatically resolve system issues before they impact customers or business operations across any Walmart system.

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.
 

Benefits:
Benefits: Beyond our great compensation package, 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 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. At Walmart, we offer competitive pay as well as performance-based bonus awards and other great benefits for a happier mind, body, and wallet. Health benefits include medical, vision and dental coverage. Financial benefits include 401(k), stock purchase and company-paid life insurance. Paid time off benefits include PTO (including sick leave), parental leave, family care leave, bereavement, jury duty, and voting. Other benefits include short-term and long-term disability, company discounts, Military Leave Pay, adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, and more. You will also receive PTO and/or PPTO that can be used for vacation, sick leave, holidays, or other purposes. The amount you receive depends on your job classification and length of employment. It will meet or exceed the requirements of paid sick leave laws, where applicable. For information about PTO, see https://one.walmart.com/notices. Live Better U is a Walmart-paid education benefit program for full-time and part-time associates in Walmart and Sam's Club facilities. Programs range from high school completion to bachelor's degrees, including English Language Learning and short-form certificates. Tuition, books, and fees are completely paid for by Walmart.
Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to a specific plan or program terms.
For information about benefits and eligibility, see One.Walmart.
The annual salary range for this position is $169,000.00 - $338,000.00 Additional compensation includes annual or quarterly performance bonuses. Additional compensation for certain positions may also include :
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Minimum Qualifications...

Outlined below are the required minimum qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no minimum qualifications.

Option 1: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field and 6 years' experience in data engineering, solution architecture, business intelligence, business analytics or related field. Option 2: 8 years' experience in data engineering, solution architecture, business intelligence, business analytics or related field. Option 3: Master's degree in Computer Science and 4 years' experience in data engineering, solution architecture, business intelligence, business analytics or related field.
2 years' supervisory experience.

Preferred Qualifications...

Outlined below are the optional preferred qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no preferred qualifications.

Data architecture/software architecture/data modeling, Master’s degree in Computer Science or related field and 6 years' experience in software engineering, Relevant industry experience (for example, retail, supply chain, eCommerce, healthcare, etc.), Solution Architecture, Supervisory, 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.

Primary Location...

809 11th Ave, Sunnyvale, CA 94089-4731, United States of America

Walmart and its subsidiaries are committed to maintaining a drug-free workplace and has a no tolerance policy regarding the use of illegal drugs and alcohol on the job. This policy applies to all employees and aims to create a safe and productive work environment.