Position Summary...
As the Director of Engineering for Global Data Foundations at Walmart Global Tech, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the future of our data and analytics capabilities. Leading a talented and diverse team of data engineers distributed across the globe, you will spearhead the development and maintenance of cutting-edge data products that fuel our business growth and customer-centric initiatives.
What you'll do...
About Team:
The Global Data Foundations pillar within the “AI and Data” organization establishes unified and reusable enterprise data for Walmart U.S., International and Sam’s—ensuring consistent customer, product and household understanding that downstream systems can depend on. The focus is on scalable data platforms, shared modeling capabilities and enterprise analytics that serve every experience domain.
What you'll do:
- Driving the Data engineering charter, bring best practices, solve key enterprise problems for multiple markets
- Coordinate across retail value chain functional teams of data scientists, analysts, product managers, engineers, and business operators on value realization initiatives.
- Develop and leverage a consistent framework to identify and prioritize uses cases based on business value.
- Play a key role to solve complex data problems (business & operational), pivotal to Walmart's business and drive actionable insights.
- Demonstrate incremental solution approach with agile and flexible ability to overcome practical problems.
- Lead and collaborate with the team to assess customer needs and translate the business problem into an analytical problem.
- Establish platform best practices and drive the use of state of art techniques.
- Manage development and support of data commercialization platform that caters to needs of real time events and batch data processing
- Manage end to end development of data products that include traditional RDBMS and big data platforms
- Build and lead a high-performing team of data engineers.
- Drive continuous improvement by researching industry best practices and incorporating it to our company
- Drive the execution of multiple business plans for your own project team and deliverables.
- 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
- Implement data quality frameworks and ensure compliance with data governance policies.
- Engage with leadership globally in setting up priorities for the team.
- Create a collaborative environment across geography for delivering best services to the customers around the globe.
What you'll bring:
- Bachelor of Engineering degree or closely related discipline.
- 15+ years of experience in building data integration and platform solutions involving Big Data technologies.
- A strong experience in driving data/engineering operations for end user applications.
- A strong understanding of data platforms, data and reporting engines, data modelling and warehousing, and data transformations and pipelines for supporting real time and batch-oriented events processing.
- Experience in leading large/medium distributed platform teams.
- Experience with relational databases (Oracle / My SQL), non-relational databases (Cassandra, HBase) and Big data technologies like Hadoop, Spark
- Experience in building end-to-end data products (DaaS) using latest technologies and architecture (like microservices architecture). This included good knowledge of DevOps.
- Experience with distributed real time / micro batch computation systems such as Spark
- Experience with leading data commercialization initiatives.
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...
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Minimum Qualifications:Option 1: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and 6 years' experience in software engineering or related field. Option 2: 8 years' experience in software engineering or related field. Option 3: Master's degree in Computer Science and 4 years' experience in software engineering or related field. 5 years' experience in data engineering, database engineering, business intelligence, or business analytics. 2 years' supervisory experience.
Preferred Qualifications...
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Primary Location...
Block- 1, Prestige Tech Pacific Park, Sy No. 38/1, Outer Ring Rd Kadubeesanahalli , India