Position Summary...Provides overall direction by analyzing business objectives and customer needs; developing, communicating, building support for, and implementing business strategies, plans, and practices; analyzing costs and forecasts and incorporating them into business plans; determining and supporting resource requirements; evaluating operational processes; measuring outcomes to ensure desired results; identifying and capitalizing on improvement opportunities; promoting a customer environment; and demonstrating adaptability and sponsoring continuous learning. Develops and implements strategies to attract and maintain a highly skilled and engaged workforce by diagnosing capability gaps; recruiting, selecting, and developing talent; supporting mentorship, workforce development, and succession planning; and leveraging the capabilities of new and existing talent. Cultivates an environment where associates respect and adhere to company standards of integrity and ethics by integrating these values into all programs and practices; developing consequences for violations or non-compliance; and supporting the Open Door Policy. 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.
What you'll do...
About Team :
You will play a pivotal role in architecting and constructing custom-grade applications and products in the People Technology sphere. Your primary focus will be on crafting innovative front-end solutions that directly impact over two million Walmart associates worldwide. Leading multiple teams, you'll mentor, motivate, and provide technical guidance, ensuring our projects thrive. Additionally, your input will be instrumental in fostering innovative ideas, implementing best designs, and mitigating technical risks with simple, effective solutions.
In addition to leading technical initiatives, you'll provide overall direction by analyzing business objectives and customer needs. This involves developing, communicating, and implementing business strategies, plans, and practices, while evaluating operational processes and measuring outcomes to ensure desired results. Your role extends to cultivating an environment where associates respect and adhere to company standards of integrity and ethics, integrating these values into all programs and practices. Furthermore, you'll develop and implement strategies to attract and maintain a highly skilled and engaged workforce, supporting mentorship, workforce development, and succession planning initiatives.
Position Responsibilities:
What you will do:
- A visionary technologist dedicated to leveraging technology for enhancing workplace experiences and operational efficiencies, with a comprehensive understanding of architectural principles, systems, and environment behavior.
- A champion of user-centered design, adept at developing streamlined, captivating solutions, backed by a strong acumen in defect management, troubleshooting, and root cause analysis.
- A strategic thinker with a keen understanding of technology's broad influence on organizational culture and productivity, proficient in requirement and scoping analysis to align solutions with business objectives and priorities.
- A problem solver with a knack for designing top-tier user experiences for mobile platforms, emphasizing an offline-first approach, and possessing advanced expertise in solution design and coding standards.
- Possess a sharp eye for detail, capable of articulating the nuances of quality design while upholding engineering principles, demonstrated through expertise in testing methodologies and program monitoring.
- Organized, disciplined, and adept at managing multiple large-scale projects concurrently, with a deep understanding of DevOps orientation and continuous improvement methodologies.
What you will bring:
- Drive Engineering Acceleration through platformization, automated testing, and CI/CD deployments on modern tech stacks such as GraphQL, Azure/GCP, and React.js, utilizing architectural acumen to define architectural specifications and blueprint for various components.
- Implement strategies for reusable components and standardized frameworks to enhance development efficiency and scalability, with a focus on defect management and troubleshooting to prevent recurrence of issues.
- Collaborate cross-functionally to establish and enforce engineering standards, ensuring consistency and excellence across the development lifecycle, while also driving requirement and scoping analysis to prioritize product enhancements and updates.
- Translate requirements into mobile solutions for multiple endpoints (such as iPhone, Android, Web), gathering essential information such as design documents, product requirements, and wireframes, with a strong emphasis on solution design and coding excellence.
- Lead coding initiatives to drive optimization and reduce errors, leveraging expertise in software architecture and distributed systems to create modular, extensible designs.
- Develop entry and exit criteria for testing phases, ensuring comprehensive test coverage for functionality, performance, security, and integration, and drive execution of test cases to detect errors and defects.
- Provide support to relevant stakeholders to drive adherence to performance metrics of the program, manage CICD processes, and define metrics for effective monitoring of application performance.
- Foster a culture of learning, innovation, and continuous improvement, promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion, while embodying Walmart's values and culture of servant leadership, curiosity, courage, and customer focus.
Position Requirements:
Minimum Qualifications
· Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field and minimum 18 years’ experience in software engineering Or master’s degree in computer science or related field and 15 years of work experience
· Over 18 years of experience in building mobile & desktop user experiences, demonstrating advanced knowledge of front-end design patterns, data structures, and algorithms.
· Deep experience in using React, GraphQL, with a proven track record of creating functional automation testing using Appium or other open source automation frameworks.
· Ability to write critical path code, scaffolds, and reusable components to accelerate engineering velocity, coupled with experience in cloud-native technology and CI/CD deployments.
· Superior analytical skills with a good problem-solving attitude, alongside a genuine passion for technology and a commitment to continuous learning.-
Preferred Qualifications
· Experience building resilient Tier 0 production system operations (logging, telemetry, alerting etc.)
· Attitude to thrive in a fun, fast-paced start-up like environment.
· Excellent communication and problem-solving skills
· Nice to have Backend experience in either Java or Node.js development.
About Global Tech
Imagine working in an environment where one line of code can make life easier for hundreds of millions of people and put a smile on their face. That’s what we do at Walmart Global Tech. We’re a team of 15,000+ software engineers, data scientists and service professionals within Walmart, the world’s largest retailer, delivering innovations that improve how our customers shop and empower our 2.3 million associates. To others, innovation looks like an app, service or some code, but Walmart has always been about people. People are why we innovate, and people power our innovations. Being human led is our true disruption.
Ways of Working
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.
Walmart Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer – By Choice.
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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 and6 years’ experience in software engineering or related area.
Option 2: 8 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 4 years' experience in software engineering or related area
Primary Location...Rmz Millenia Business Park, No 143, Campus 1B (1St -6Th Floor), Dr. Mgr Road, (North Veeranam Salai) Perungudi , India
Top Skills
What We Do
Walmart has a long history of transforming retail and using technology to deliver innovations that improve how the world shops and empower our 2.2 million associates. It began with Sam Walton and continues today with Global Tech associates working together to power Walmart and lead the next retail disruption. We’re a high-performing, primarily virtual workforce that is human-led and tech-empowered. Our world-class software engineers, data scientists and engineers, cybersecurity professionals, product managers and business service professionals work with top talent on cutting-edge technologies that create unique and innovative experiences for our associates, customers and members across Walmart, Sam’s Club and Walmart International. At Walmart Global Tech, one line of code or bold idea can make life easier for hundreds of millions of people – talk about epic impact at a global scale.
