Senior Distinguished I, Architect

Walmart Walmart · Retail · HERNDON, VA TECH FACILITY VA Herndon

This role is for a Senior Distinguished Architect at Walmart, focusing on designing and implementing enterprise-level architecture, coding standards, and deployment strategies across various products and platforms. It involves defining tech stacks, ensuring scalability, security, and performance, and guiding development teams. While it operates within an enterprise context that may utilize AI, the core responsibilities are architectural and engineering, not the direct creation or advancement of AI/ML models.

What you'd actually do

  1. Define the architecture blueprint for various functional products within a domain
  2. Define the architecture to build cross system interactions ensuring reusability consistency and integration
  3. Identify evaluate and recommend solutions and enhancement to framework to achieve desired performance and scalability
  4. Prepare technical papers broadly outlining the approaches to be taken in building multiple systems
  5. Define the tech stack for various products platforms and solutions highlighting the pros and cons of each and also providing recommendations for future solutions

Skills

Required

  • Architectural principles
  • Systems and environment behavior
  • Architectural Styles Patterns and plans
  • Architectural standards
  • Nonfunctional System performance parameters
  • Technology Strategy
  • Coding standards and guidelines
  • Coding languages Eg JavaScript Python C etc
  • frameworksEg ActiveXNet Cocoa Android application framework etc
  • toolsEg Mondaycom Linx Embold etc
  • Platforms Eg Microsoft Azure Apple IOS etc
  • Quality Safety and Security PCI etc standards
  • Emerging tools and technologies
  • Telemetry CI CD Code Management Tools SDLC Secure SDL frameworks and tools
  • Risk analysis methodologies
  • Cost Analysis
  • Business objectives
  • Classification of requirements
  • Domain Knowledge
  • User stories concepts
  • Functional NonFunctional Requirements
  • Scoping and Estimation
  • Database structure principles
  • Data modelling segmentation techniques
  • Prototyping process and models
  • Database design and archival
  • Migration techniques
  • Data analysis tools and processes
  • Telemetry
  • Container and Container Orchestration Platforms
  • Cloud Monitoring Solutions
  • DevOps CI CD Pipeline Tools
  • Planning and sizing metrics for various environments
  • On premise and cloudbased deployment
  • Hot Deployment Rolling Mode Deployment Blue Green Deployment
  • Secure Software Development
  • Data protection
  • Cryptography
  • Key management
  • Identity and Access Management
  • Industry Standard Authentication mechanisms
  • Cloud security and Governance tools
  • Audit compliance standards
  • Static Code Scanning