Position Summary...

Principal Software Engineer for the Item Data Management team in the Sam’s Merchandising and AI Labs Department

What you'll do...

About the team

Sam's Club is our membership warehouse club, a business model that provides our members with high-quality products at prices that are unrivalled by traditional retail. Sam's Club provides a carefully curated assortment of items, as well as developing and leading technologies and services such as Scan & Go, Club Pickup, and home delivery service in select markets. Sam's Club also provides travel, auto purchasing, pharmacy, optical, hearing aid centres, tire and battery centres, and a portfolio of business operations support services. 

The Merchandising Technology team builds products, provides solutions and support to the merchants and business users who work on various areas like product sourcing, costing, negotiations, assortment planning, store and planogram layouts, item setup, pricing, promotions/discounts, product insights etc. The technology team is spread across US and India geographies, and works closely with the product and business teams.

What You’ll Do

Our ideal candidate is an energetic, self-motivated individual focused on solving customer problems. He/she is a responsive team player who can proactively contribute for building technical strategies for applications and systems by promoting an understanding of the technology and business roadmap. When you add the numbers, you will realize that this role will probably help influence the largest pool of customers anywhere in the world. If that gives you goose bumps – then you are the kind of candidate, we want.

• You will be responsible for development of merchant, vendor and associate facing applications that are used to manage item life-cycle in Sam’s.
• You will work in our own internal open stack cloud, Azure, GCP, using several technologies including but not limited to JAVA, Spring, Kafka, Cosmos DB, REST APIs, GraphQL, etc.
• Help define Technical Roadmap and work very closely with the Engineering Leader to own the entire product delivery end to end.
• Work very closely with different product and business stakeholders at various locations in US and India to drive the execution of multiple business plans and technologies
• Support business objectives by collaborating with business partners to define priorities, identify opportunities and drive resolutions
• Improve, optimize and identify opportunities for efficient software development processes
• Help to Hire, Develop and Retain a strong team of software engineers.
• Exhibit strong leadership and communication skills to collaborate with product, engineering and management teams across different geographic locations
• Promote and support company policies, procedures, mission, values, and standards of ethics and integrity.
• Lead and direct large-scale, complex, cross-functional projects by reviewing project requirements; translating requirements into technical solutions; directing and reviewing the solutions.
• Design artifacts (for example, proof of concepts, prototypes); write and develop code; oversee software design; review unit test cases; communicate status and issues to engineering manager, team members and stakeholders; enhance design to prevent recurrences of defects; ensure on-time delivery and hand-offs; interact with engineering manager to provide input on project plan.

What You’ll bring

• Expertise in understanding customer requirements in detail and translating them into architectural requirements that are relevant for all products within a domain and in-line with other domains, to meet customer expectations.
• Ability to decompose the product architecture into multiple components and modules and define architectural specifications for each module
• Expertise in designing solutions that encompasses multiple applications / modules / business processes / functionality for large scale programs consisting of multiple products (for the product suite)
• Ability to define success criteria and guiding principles to evaluate solution design.
•  Proficient knowledge of design patterns and architecture best practices
• Ability to
  • Demonstrate Instances where you owned the design and architecture
  • Demonstrate low maintainability, high availability, high scalability, simplicity, modularity, extensibility and resiliency of your design/solve when the systems evolved or new things got added over time
  • Evangelize best practice through brown bags or talks
• Proficient knowledge of code review guidelines, branching strategies, logging best practices
• Awareness of
  • Acceptance criteria, logging best practices, security standards, unit test coverage, static code analyzer, automation, coding standards, reusability
  • NFRs, performance needs, meetings business requirements
  • Exception handling, connection pooling
  • Evolving coding standards in the industry
• Deep expertise in Architecture and Design Patterns, Cloud Native Microservices Development, Developing resilient, reliable & quality software
• Problem Solving, Building and Leading High Performing Teams, Thought Leadership
• Technical mindset and product development driven experience and ability to deep dive on technical issues and provide guidance to the team.
• Passion for quick learning and adapting in a fast-paced global environment
• Strong sense of ownership, focus on quality, responsiveness, efficiency and innovation
• Great communication skills, ability to work with other teams and people. Good stake holder management skills.
• A proven track record for ability to work with distributed teams in a collaborative and productive manner
• Retail / E-Commerce background is an advantage

Mandatory Skills:

• An Engineering Degree - B.E/B.Tech/MS in any stream – Computer Science preferred.
• At least 15+ years of relevant experience, Minimum of 8 years of experience with agile principles and practices. Experience of working in Scrum teams.
• Azure or Google Cloud certification, Architect certification preferred.
• Hands on experience in building scalable cloud native software platforms/applications
• Very strong understanding and experience in the area of software development lifecycle.
• Strong understanding of CS Fundamentals, Data Structures, Algorithms and Problem Solving
• Should demonstrate proficient knowledge of technology platforms, databases, applications, industry trends.
• Propose alternate frameworks, platforms, tools and environments for different contexts and different application/product features
• Propose frameworks, tools, methodologies that can be adopted to drive automation across the organization
• Build the culture of learning and innovation in the team
• Drive adoption of new AI tools for development and testing. (Codeium, Github co-pilot etc.)
• Monitor and control high level product specifications with attention to system integration and feasibility, ensuring adherence to architecture design and coding standards
• Should demonstrate proficient knowledge of 
  • Logging techniques, logging levels
  • Engineering dashboard metrics - latency, CPU, memory, etc.
  • Engineering dashboard tools - Grafana, AppDynamics, NewRelic
  • CI, CD, logging frameworks

Mandatory Technology skills

• Proficiency in Java 17, Spring Boot, RxJava, Python, React with NodeJS
• Experience in working on NoSQL databases like Cassandra, Azure Cosmos or MongoDB.
• Experience in working with SQL DBs like Azure SQL, PostgreSQL, MariaDB, MySQL
• Experience in working with Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform
• Caching frameworks – Memcached, Redis
• Data pipeline orchestrators – Azure Data Factory, Apache Airflow
• Data warehouse tools – Google Big Query, Azure Synapse Analytics (formerly Azure SQL Data Warehouse)
• Streaming frameworks – Apache Spark, Kafka
• Application Performance Monitoring – Splunk/AppDynamics/New Relic
• Observability – Grafana, Dynatrace
• Good to have: Experience in GraphQL, DB2, Item Data Management or Master Data Management systems

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 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.

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.

Minimum Qualifications:Option 1: Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or related area and5 years’ experience in software engineering or related area.
Option 2: 7 years’ experience in software engineering or related area.

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 3 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