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 Sams Club Team

As of 2021, Sam's Club operates around 599 stores in the United States, Mexico, China and Puerto Rico.

Sam's Club is a retail giant that operates a chain of membership-only warehouse clubs. The company offers a wide range of products, including electronics, furniture, groceries, and more, at discounted prices. Sam's Club has made significant investments in technology to enhance its supply chain, digital pharmacy, merchandising, and membership offerings.

We help people around the world save money and live better -- anytime and anywhere -- in retail stores, online and through their mobile devices. Each week more than 260+ million customers and members visit our 11600+ stores under 46 banners in 24 countries and e-commerce websites in 11 countries. With last fiscal year revenues of approximately $572 billion and 2.3 million employees worldwide, Walmart is simply the largest retail business in the world. And we also happen to be number one in Fortune 500 list.Sam’s club is a membership-based retail warehouse club owned and operated by Walmart.  With 597 physical clubs across different geographic region in US, Sam’s Club chain serves more than 50 million US members and is rated among the top retailers in US. 

Supply chain: Sam’s Tech has implemented advanced logistics systems that allow it to move products quickly and efficiently from its warehouses to its retail locations. This has helped the company to reduce costs, improve inventory management, and improve the customer experience. Additionally, Sam's Club has also implemented automated systems to manage its distribution centers, which has led to increased efficiency and reduced labor costs.

Position Responsibilities:

What you will do

•  Define engineering practices, product development patterns and drive products development to scale to Walmart requirements.
• Excellent understanding on how to build large scale product components in API Gateway, Service Mesh, Proxies and Identity management solution 
•  Strong expertise in telemetry solution, adopting the right products and tools to instrument application for monitoring and troubleshooting
•  Have insights in optimizing the DevOps pipeline and bring in best practices as the latest technology trend
• Good understanding of Openstack, Containers, Container management tools like Kubernetes and Docker swarm. 
• In depth experience in driving high performance engineering team who has built large scale platform products either on premise or on cloud
• Good understanding of building products from ground up using best practices like event driven cloud native architecture.
• Bring in best practices for product development to keep team and processes lean, deliver more and optimize the waste. 
•  Strong fundamentals of agile methodologies and program practices in product development lifecycle
•  Work with stakeholders to define the future roadmap of the product, adopt latest technology innovation wherever necessary 
• Build, own and mentor the team of high-performance engineering team, product owners and engineering managers, provide thought leadership across each of these functions to bring best efficiencies and quality. 
• Promote and support company policies, procedures, mission, values, and standards of ethics and integrity.

What you will bring

• 20+ years of experience in platform products development.
• Technical leadership in design, implementation and support of core platform products that are highly reliable, flexible, and scalable.
• Retail industry experience along with building & managing large scale Supply Chain / Retail platforms/applications
• Experienced in Platform / Product development at scale.
• In depth Knowledge of Microservices, Deployment pipeline, containers, Kubernetes, openstack and deployment patterns are desirable.
• Must be aware of Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment tools and products. Design and architecture understanding of how to build these products are added advantage.
• Strong technical background with the capability of having design conversation with the engineering team if required and earn the respect and ability to mentor top individual technical talent.
• Experience in performance instrumentation, tuning and optimization of large-scale products 
• Have the knowledge of design patterns that help building cloud native products.
• Experience in Supply Chain and eCommerce domain will be a huge positive.
• Good experience of working with globally distributed teams in a collaborative and productive manner.
• Provide & coach the team on non-functional requirements for world-class reliability and cost-efficiency throughout the product development lifecycle.
• Successful candidate will have experience managing and implementing Cloud architectures in a DevOps/Agile methodology.
• Drive a culture of automation, and self-service enablement for developers.
• Understand the product and project management space with Agile methodologies. 
• Excellent interpersonal skills, good with people, ability to negotiate.
• Experience with hiring and building teams from ground up Keen eye for new technology trends and how they can be used to help grow the business Experience building products that are powered by massive data
• Good academic record and graduated (B.E/ B.Tech / M.E / M.Tech/ MBA)

About Global Tech

Imagine working in an environment where one line of code can make life easier for hundreds of millions of people and put a smile on their face. That’s what we do at Walmart Global Tech. We’re a team of 15,000+ software engineers, data scientists and service professionals within Walmart, the world’s largest retailer, delivering innovations that improve how our customers shop and empower our 2.3 million associates. To others, innovation looks like an app, service or some code, but Walmart has always been about people. People are why we innovate, and people power our innovations. Being human led is our true disruption.

Ways of Working

Flexible, hybrid work

We use a hybrid way of working with primary in office presence coupled with an optimal mix of virtual presence. We use our campuses to collaborate and be together in person, as business needs require and for development and networking opportunities. This approach helps us make quicker decisions, remove location barriers across our global team, be more flexible in our 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.

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 to 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.

Qualification

⁃ Bachelor's or master's degree in Computer Science or equivalent

⁃ 20+ years of experience mentoring and leading teams.

⁃ Proven experience in building high-performance teams and scalable best practices in SaaS/Online/Enterprise Product engineering organization

⁃ Excellent logical and problem-solving skills.

⁃ Excellent verbal and written communication with stakeholders in a matrix environment. Building partnerships is a critical expectation for this role.

Technical Skills

⁃ Languages - Java/J2EE, Spring boot

⁃ Micro Services Architecture, Event-Driven Architectures

⁃ Cloud - Azure, GCP

⁃ Messaging Queues - Kafka, RabbitMQ, ApacheMQ

Mandatory Skills

Candidate must possess years of experience in leading engineering teams in a large retail enterprise. In addition to strong engineering experience, the candidate must be a people leader who can lead omni commerce enterprise strategy in delivering best in class omni channel platform. A leader of technology who is able to navigate the enterprise complexity and help in architecting and delivering capabilities that are truly member focussed and thereby amplifying member obsessed culture at Sams.

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 to 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.

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...

G, 1, 3, 4, 5 Floor, Building 11, Sez, Cessna Business Park, Kadubeesanahalli Village, Varthur Hobli , India