(IND) DIRECTOR, SOFTWARE ENGINEERING
Walmart Global Tech India
Location
Bangalore | India
Job description
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...
Job Title: Director Engineering
Career Level : IN7_F About Team The Enterprise People Technology team supports the successful deployment and adoption of new People technology across the enterprise. As a Fortune #1 company, our work impacts millions of associates globally. We strive to continuously improve people technology and products to help managers and associates so they can focus on what matters most - supporting our customers and members. People Technology is one of the major segments of Walmart Global Tech's Enterprise Business Services, which is invested in building a compact, robust organization that includes service operations and technology solutions for Finance, People, and the Associate Digital Experience.
Enterprise Business Services @ IDC Bangalore and Chennai in India are focused on data driven, highly optimized products and implementations in the areas of Finance, Procurement, Human Resources and Retail business functions for multiple Walmart markets with open stack technologies and other ERP tools.
Job Summary As a Director, Software Engineering you will be part of the People Technology team within Walmart Global Tech. We are defining the leading edge of technology to provide innovative solutions to our business customers to help support the millions of Associates employed at Walmart.
As part of EBS Tech we have embarked on an exciting journey of modernizing and transforming the legacy applications into future tech stack to help build a Tier 0 high available, resilient systems for the stores and facilities across US and international markets to increase their productivity.
What you'll do: Influence, coach, and be a servant leader to multiple integration teams focused on transformative products within our People Technology space.
- Develop close partnerships with our Product, Data Science, API, and Middleware teams to drive innovation as we deliver on commitments to our business customers through the lens of experience in design, development, and delivery of software products, provide thought leadership and guidance to your teams around middleware and engineering best practices
- Operating with excellence – Set an example in managing to KPIs, delivering excellence, presenting at all levels, and developing yourself and others.
- Drive, build and optimize CI/CD (continuous integration and development) pipeline for faster delivery.
- 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.
What you'll bring: - Deep working knowledge of all aspects of Cloud native distributed system development. Azure/ GCP/ WCNP preferred.
- Experience working with micro-services architecture and distributed systems.
- Experience in all areas of engineering including DevOps, Chaos Engineering, SRE, and on-call rotations to assure service availability and operational excellence.
- Experience managing software development engineers, leaders, architects and leading engineering projects, guiding engineering teams on engineering excellence & solid system design.
- Experience partnering with cross-functional project development and in collaborating with other scrum teams, QA, Release Management, Program Management, and TechOps.
Additional Comments Minimum Qualifications (Manager's Ideal Candidate Must-Haves (skills required))- Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field and minimum 10-12 years' experience in software engineering Or master's degree in computer science or related field and 8-10 years of work experience
- Minimum 5-7 years of people manager experience (including managing leaders) in driving and retaining a high-performance team.
- Minimum 6-8 years of experience building highly scalable, high performance, responsive software Applications.
- Highly technical hands-on and an effective people leader
- Proven industry experience with large scale distributed systems
Preferred Qualifications (Manager's Preferred Qualifications (3-5 'nice to haves'))- Experience working in any benefits, total rewards or other health and wellness platforms.
- 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
- Has ambition and vigor to add value to a rapidly growing development team.
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. We believe we are best equipped to help our associates, customers and the communities we serve to live better when we really know them. That means understanding, respecting and valuing diversity- unique styles, experiences, identities, ideas and opinions – while being inclusive of all people. 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.
3 years' supervisory experience.
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... Pardhanani Wilshire II, Cessna Business Park, Kadubeesanahalli Village, Varthur Hobli , India R-1766583
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