Position Summary...

Join our dynamic and forward-thinking engineering organization as our Group Director Software Engineering relating directly to the Walmart people Tech team,
where you’ll be at the forefront of driving innovation, spearheading transformative projects and foundational improvements of our people systems. We are seeking a visionary leader who can seamlessly bridge the gap between business asks and architecting the technical landscape to deliver. Your projects will have tremendous impact, be scalable, and at the center of platform modernization efforts in building a world class Technology platform for Walmart Business.

What you'll do...

About Team:

The Enterprise People Technology team supports the successful deployment and adoption of new People technology across the enterprise. As a Fortune #1 company, our work impacts millions of associates globally. We strive to continuously improve people technology and products to help managers and associates so they can focus on what matters most - supporting our customers and members. People Technology is one of the major segments of Walmart Global Tech’s Enterprise Business Services, which is invested in building a compact, robust organization that includes service operations and technology solutions for Finance, People, and the Associate Digital Experience.

If you’re inspired by the opportunity to solve complex platform problems at scale and make a difference for our customers and members, this is the right place to join.

What you'll do:

The Group Director of Software Engineering / People Tech (IDC) is a senior technology and people leader responsible for driving global strategy, delivery excellence, and organizational maturity across critical People Tech platforms and services. This role provides unified global leadership across the Wellbeing and Global time & Attendance (GTA) portfolios, while also serving as the IDC site leader for People Tech and People Services.

This role is pivotal during a period of significant scale and transformation, requiring a leader who can balance visionary platform leadership, GenAI-driven innovation, operational rigor, and people leadership across large, globally distributed organizations. The Group Director will partner closely with product, Global People leadership, business, and operations leaders to deliver scalable, resilient, AI-enabled, and business-critical platforms, while building a strong and sustainable leadership pipeline for the future.

Key responsibilities for this role include:

• Owning the global technology vision, strategy, roadmap, and delivery for Wellbeing and GTA platforms, ensuring alignment with enterprise People Tech and business priorities.
• Leading a 230-associate global organization, aligning technology execution, delivery outcomes, and operational performance across regions and time zones.
• Driving platform-first thinking, standardization, and reuse to improve scalability, reliability, and speed of innovation.
• Strengthening governance, quality, security, and compliance in line with global standards and enterprise expectations.
• Ensuring seamless collaboration across product, HR, business, and operations partners, enabling clarity of ownership and execution consistency.
• Translating CxO-level objectives into actionable roadmaps, initiatives, OKRs, and metrics-driven success measures.
• Proactively identifying and mitigating delivery risks, dependencies, and execution challenges, ensuring predictable and high-quality outcomes.
• Serving as the IDC Location Leader for People Tech, representing and enabling 430 Technology Associates.
• Providing mentorship and leadership to Directors and senior leaders across Engineering, Product, and Services.
• Acting as the strategic bridge between global People Tech leadership and IDC teams, ensuring strong alignment and execution.
• Driving performance management, succession planning, and leadership pipeline development.
• Fostering a leadership culture centered on accountability, engagement, innovation, and inclusion.
• Representing the IDC leadership voice in global forums, ensuring strong two-way communication and alignment.
• Providing location leadership for 480 People Services associates as the organization transitions from setup to maturity.
• Driving operational excellence, productivity, quality, and adoption of tech-enabled optimization.
• Establishing structured governance, execution discipline, and performance metrics.
• Serving as the senior escalation point and unblocker, ensuring seamless coordination between global and local leadership.
• Championing process re-engineering, automation, and innovation through People Tech capabilities.
• Balancing global direction with local realities to ensure sustainable growth and organizational maturity.
• Building, mentoring, and retaining a world-class leadership team, fostering high performance and career growth.
• Creating a culture of engineering excellence, innovation, and continuous improvement.
• Promoting a strong platform and product mindset with a focus on customer experience and measurable business outcomes.
• Driving cost optimization, efficiency improvements, and operational resilience across portfolios.
• Ensuring transparency, accountability, and outcome-based execution across large-scale global organizations.

What you'll bring:

• 18+ years of experience in technology leadership, with significant experience leading large, global organizations.
• Proven success as a senior engineering or technology leader (L5 equivalent) managing complex portfolios.
• Strong experience in platform engineering, enterprise systems, or large-scale people/HR technology platforms.
• Demonstrated ability to translate business strategy into technology execution and measurable outcomes.
• Deep experience in people leadership, organizational design, and leadership development.
• Experience working in or leading large offshore/global delivery centers (IDC experience preferred).
• Strong executive presence with the ability to influence and partner at CxO and SVP levels.
• A strong inclination towards innovation, committed to advancing technology solutions and introducing new methods to address complex challenges.

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 experts 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 Work

Walmart’s culture sets us apart, and we know being together helps us innovate, learn and grow great careers. This role is based in our Bangalore office for daily work, with the flexibility for associates to manage their personal lives.

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.

Belonging

We aim to create a culture where every associate feels valued for who they are, rooted in respect for the individual. Our goal is to foster a sense of belonging, to create opportunities for all our associates, customers and suppliers, and to be a Walmart for everyone.

At Walmart, our vision is "everyone included." By fostering a workplace culture where everyone is—and feels—included, everyone wins. Our associates and customers reflect the makeup of all 19 countries where we operate. By making Walmart a welcoming place where all people feel like they belong, we’re able to engage associates, strengthen our business, improve our ability to serve customers, and support the communities where we operate.

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, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or related area and 8 years’ experience in software engineering or related area.
Option 2: 10 years’ experience in software engineering or related area.
5 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 6 years' experience in software engineering or related area, 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...

Pardhanani Wilshire Ii, Cessna Business Park, Kadubeesanahalli Village, Varthur Hobli , India