Position Summary...Drives the execution of multiple business plans and projects by identifying customer and operational needs; developing and communicating business plans and priorities; removing barriers and obstacles that impact performance; providing resources; identifying performance standards; measuring progress and adjusting performance accordingly; developing contingency plans; and demonstrating adaptability and supporting continuous learning. Provides supervision and development opportunities for associates by selecting and training; mentoring; assigning duties; building a team-based work environment; establishing performance expectations and conducting regular performance evaluations; providing recognition and rewards; coaching for success and improvement; and ensuring diversity awareness. Promotes and supports company policies, procedures, mission, values, and standards of ethics and integrity by training and providing direction to others in their use and application; ensuring compliance with them; and utilizing and supporting the Open Door Policy. Ensures business needs are being met by evaluating the ongoing effectiveness of current plans, programs, and initiatives; consulting with business partners, managers, co-workers, or other key stakeholders; soliciting, evaluating, and applying suggestions for improving efficiency and cost-effectiveness; and participating in and supporting community outreach events.
What you'll do...
Job Description Summary
We are seeking a highly skilled and passionate Data Engineer to join our dynamic team. This role is crucial in developing our next-generation Replenishment & Forecasting Platform that aims to revolutionize how we manage inventory for over 11,000 stores worldwide. By improving forecast accuracy, we can significantly reduce waste, particularly in perishable goods, and ensure better product availability—achievements that can save billions of dollars and enhance customer satisfaction..
About Team:
As part of the Replenishment & Forecasting team @Walmart, you’ll have the opportunity to work with some of the smartest engineers/architects/data scientist and will have the opportunity to solve one of the most critical problems for Walmart
We are looking for passionate Data Engineers to join our team & help us in building our next generation Replenishment & Forecasting Platform for Walmart. We drive $200B+ inventory replenishments annually. Improved forecast will help drive down the inventory days of supply and reduce waste for perishable grocery – savings measured in billions of dollars – while improving our in stocks. Effectively predicting demand involves learning from past sales and modelling the effects price, promotions, store placements, local events, weather etc. Replenishment ensures we have the effective distribution of the demand to the final destinations (Stores, DCs, etc.)
Doing this a Walmart scale – over 500 M store item combinations - makes it one of the largest and most challenging problems of its kind in the world while also being the most impactful. Talk to us if you are interested in taking up the challenge.
What you'll do:
Lead & mentor dynamic engineering teams to achieve results Constant focus on velocity, continuous improvement, engineering, and operational excellence Interact with other Walmart engineering teams across geographies to leverage expertise and contribute to the tech community. Cross-collaborate with inter-disciplinary product and engineering teams to solve some of the unique challenges in multi-channel shopping experience. Guide technical roadmaps for the team and help transition our platform to micro services architecture using next-gen technologies. Contribute to system modernization by migrating legacy apps without creating a blip on the customer’s radar Work with other technical leaders to ensure our coding and development processes are scaling and evolving with modern development practices Measuring and improving performance and making the systems more robust Help teams troubleshoot and find ways to move faster and raise the quality bar.
What you'll bring:
B.E/B.Tech with 10-15 yrs. of experience in software development Solid hands-on experience in development and growing, leading teams Experience with Big Data Systems like Hadoop, Spark Large scale distributed systems experience, including scalability, High Availability and fault tolerance Complete understanding of development and deployment systems, production architectures Exposure to cloud infrastructure, such as Open Stack, Azure, GCP, or AWS A continuous drive to explore, improve, enhance, automate, and optimize systems and tools. Well versed with Core Java and J2EE features with solid understanding of various Design Patterns at scale Hands on experience SQL or No SQL technologies Experience in handling complex production issues Tools for measuring metrics and performance Strong passion for developing elegant and well-designed frameworks.
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 expert's 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, 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.
Equal Opportunity Employer:
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 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 and 5 years’ experience in software engineering or related area. Option 2: 7 years’ experience in software engineering or related area.
2 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 3 years' experience in software engineering or related area.
Primary Location...4,5,6, 7 Floor, Building 10, Sez, Cessna Business Park, Kadubeesanahalli Village, Varthur Hobli , India
Top Skills
Walmart Global Tech Bangalore, Karnataka, IND Office
3rd Floor, Block B, Salarpuria Touchstone 15/1A, 14P7, Kadubeesanahalli, Outer Ring Road Bangalore, Bangalore, Bangalore, India
