Position Summary...
We are looking for a strong Distinguished Engineer who can drive design & architecture of next generation AdTech/MarTech products keeping scalability, robustness & security aspects in focus while catering to the various requirements for internal/external stakeholders. As a part of this team based in Bangalore team, your designs and solutions will have a significant impact on day-to-day running of these products. You will be challenged with unparalleled complex business problems that spans across multiple countries, large number of users and data.
What you'll do...
About the Team
Advertisement Tech & Marketing Tech are core to Walmart's strategy of engaging customers across eCommerce as well as Brick and Mortar stores. The team owns the products which drives these capabilities across several International markets of Walmart with a net impact to the tune of 100s of Millions USD.
What you'll do:
- Drive design, development, implementation and documentation
- Be the thought leader in the Gen AI journey for the team.
- Build, test and deploy cutting edge solutions at scale, impacting associates & customers of Walmart across multiple International markets.
- Interact with Walmart engineering teams across geographies & segments to leverage expertise and contribute to the tech community.
- Engage with Product Management and Business to drive the agenda, set your priorities and deliver awesome products - should be super comfortable with hard negotiations.
- Drive the success of the implementation by applying technical skills, to design and build enhanced processes and technical solutions in support of strategic initiatives.
- Work closely with other Architects and cross functional teams and follow established practices for the delivery of solutions meeting QCD (Quality, Cost & Delivery), Within the established architectural guidelines.
- Convert Operational Excellence & Engineering Excellence goals into tech milestones.
- Work with senior leadership to chart out the future roadmap of the products
- Participate in hiring and build teams enabling them to be high performing agile teams.
- Interact closely for requirements with Business owners and technical teams both within India and across the globe. You will use your engineering experience and technical skill to define design and overall architecture for highly scalable and robust solutions.
- You will work with engineering teams to create high level and low level designs, drive design discussion and technical decisions.
- You will come up with quality, best practices, other Non-functional standards and guide the teams to execute them along with helping them on overall technical and design aspects.
- You will help implement cutting edge models and algorithms that operate on massive amounts of data and Interact with Walmart cross functional engineering teams across geographies to leverage technical expertise and contribute to the engineering community.
- You will help and participate with the teams that leverage and contribute to opensource technologies to make impact on a global scale
- Represent the team in internal/external forums
- Drive Intellectual property generation initiatives in the org - experience with filing patents/publications will be important.
What you will bring:
- B.Tech. / B.E. / M.Tech. / M.S. in Computer Science or relevant discipline
- 15+ years of experience in design and development of highly-scalable distributed applications and platforms - particularly on multi tenant, SaaS products built with a platform mindset.
- Demonstrated experience as an architect of large engineering teams with 50+ engineers.
- Deep understanding of Advertisement/Marketing Technology domain.
- Thought leader on GenAI - should be able to show clear examples where the candidate lead GenAI usage/PoCs.
- Experience building a 'Code, Deploy, Run' pipeline using DevOps best practises by leveraging the best available CI/CD tools.
- Strong computer science fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, design patterns.
- Own Tech Debt/Tech Modernization - Ability to balance the long-term "big picture" and short-term implications of design decisions.
- Having proficiency in at least a couple of language like Java, Scala, Golang
- Hands on experience in Microservices, RESTful webservices development in Java/NodeJS(SpringBoot, Dropwizard or equivalent framework).
- Good knowledge in messaging systems: Kafka / RabbitMQ
- In depth knowledge of Cloud Native Architecture, Microservice Architecture and related stacks (Service Registry, ELK / Splunk, service registry, VMs, etc.) and container technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, etc.)
- Knowledge of at least one of Azure/Google Cloud Platforms with an ability to learn fast where required.
- Self Starter with the ability to multitask across several priority areas in the face of fuzzy situations.
- Demonstrated end-to-end ownership for development and design of multiple cloud-based projects with 4 9s reliability.
- Strong hands on development skills to prototype technical solutions.
- Strong desire to drive change, and ability to adapt to change quickly. Proficient in new and emerging technologies.
- Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills - including negotiation, facilitation, and consensus building skills; ability to influence and persuade, without direct control.
- Mentoring/coaching Principal Engineers - respected tech leader that rockstar engineers can look up to.
- Focus on reusability, frameworks, patterns and configurations tools for faster development.
- Contributing back to opensource.
- Practitioner of Agile (Scrum) methodology
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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Option 1: Bachelor'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. Option 2: 8 years’ experience in software engineering or related area.
Preferred Qualifications...
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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, 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...
BLOCK- 2, PRESTIGE TECH PACIFIC PARK, SY NO. 38/1P, OUTER RING ROAD KADUBEESANAHALLI, , India