Group Director, Software Engineering

Walmart Walmart · Retail · Bentonville, AR

Group Director of Financial Planning & Analysis Systems leading a global team to transform Walmart's enterprise FP&A technology into a unified, scalable platform ecosystem. This role partners with Finance, Product, and Technology executives to translate financial needs into technology solutions, enabling faster, more accurate financial decision-making. Key responsibilities include consolidating systems into a unified planning platform, developing claimant-facing capabilities for efficient adjudication, enabling finance transformation through Generative AI platforms, driving operational excellence, and ensuring engineering and business alignment. Requires 15+ years of experience in enterprise-scale planning platform deployments, expertise in ML/GenAI applied to financial systems, and experience managing regulated data environments.

What you'd actually do

  1. Consolidate fragmented and third-party systems into reusable, standardized platform capabilities. Lead the development of a unified planning and forecasting platform that delivers actionable reporting and insights across the enterprise.
  2. Lead the development of claimant- and claims adjudicator-facing capabilities that enable efficient, accurate adjudication — reducing costs for Walmart and driving fair, consistent outcomes for claimants. Build tight feedback loops with upstream systems to reduce incoming claims volume, while advancing a roadmap toward a proprietary platform.
  3. Enable finance transformation by building governed platforms that empower finance business teams to develop their own solutions using Generative AI — accelerating speed of decision-making and expanding analytical self-sufficiency across the organization.
  4. Increase delivery velocity and predictability; improve CI/CD pipelines, release cadence, and engineering throughput
  5. Ensure clear priorities, ownership, and measurable value delivery across all domains. Maintain strong alignment between engineering execution and business and product outcomes.

Skills

Required

  • 15+ years of experience leading enterprise-scale planning platform deployments and modernizing organizations away from legacy architectures
  • Deep expertise in Machine Learning, Generative AI, and semantic routing architectures applied to financial systems
  • Proven experience managing highly regulated, sensitive data environments with strict compliance requirements
  • Exceptional executive presence with demonstrated ability to align finance operations, business functions, and product engineering around a unified transformation strategy
  • Track record of leading and scaling globally distributed, cross-functional engineering teams
  • 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.
  • 10 years’ experience in software engineering or related area.
  • 5 years’ supervisory experience.

Nice to have

  • Master’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or related area.

What the JD emphasized

  • highly regulated, sensitive data environments with strict compliance requirements
  • Generative AI
  • Machine Learning
  • semantic routing architectures

Other signals

  • leading globally distributed teams
  • transforming enterprise FP&A technology
  • building governed platforms for Generative AI enablement
  • driving platform reuse and eliminating duplication
  • leading and scaling globally distributed, cross-functional engineering teams