Senior Manager, Software Engineering

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...Position title: Engineering Manager - JavaExperience range: 9 to 14 years

About Team: 
Sam's Club is our membership warehouse club, a business model that provides our members with high-quality products at prices that are unrivalled by traditional retail. Sam's Club provides a carefully curated assortment of items, as well as developing and leading technologies and services such as Scan & Go, Club Pickup, and home delivery service in select markets. Sam's Club also provides travel, auto purchasing, pharmacy, optical, hearing aid centres, tire and battery centres, and a portfolio of business operations support services. 
What you'll do:

• You will be the responsible for building and scaling the next generation Membership platform, that will drive the fortune #1 company's Membership offerings, with a team of 10+ software engineers
• You will work in our own internal open stack cloud, Azure, GCP, using several technologies including but not limited to JAVA, Spring, Kafka, Cosmos DB, REST APIs, GraphQL, etc.
• Help define Technical Roadmap and own the entire product delivery end to end.
• Work very closely with different product and business stakeholders at various locations in US and India to drive the execution of multiple business plans and technologies
• Support business objectives by collaborating with business partners to define priorities, identify opportunities and drive resolutions
• Improve, optimize and identify opportunities for efficient software development processes
• Hire, Develop and Retain a strong team of software engineers.
• Exhibit strong leadership and communication skills to collaborate with product, engineering and management teams across different geographic locations
• Promote and support company policies, procedures, mission, values, and standards of ethics and integrity.
• Lead and direct large-scale, complex, cross-functional projects by reviewing project requirements; translating requirements into technical solutions; directing and reviewing
• Design artifacts (for example, proof of concepts, prototypes); write and develop code; oversee software design; review unit test cases; communicate status and issues to team members and stakeholders; direct project team and cross functional teams; enhance design to prevent recurrences of defects; ensure on-time delivery and hand-offs; interact with project manager to provide input on project plan; and provide leadership to the project team.

What you'll bring:

• An Engineering Degree - B.E/B.Tech/MS in any stream – Computer Science preferred.
• 10+ years of relevant experience, Minimum of 5 years of experience with agile principles and practices. Experience in leading Scrum teams.
• Deep expertise in Architecture and Design Patterns, Cloud Native Microservices Development, Developing resilient, reliable & quality software.
• Hands on experience in building scalable cloud native software platforms/applications
• Very strong understanding and experience in the area of software development lifecycle.
• Strong Java/J2EE, React, iOS and Android development track record
• Strong understanding of CS Fundamentals, Data Structures, Algorithms and Problem Solving
• Certified Scrum Master (CSM) / PMP certification preferred.
• Desirable skills:
• Experience in leading and delivering full-stack customer facing applications would be desirable.
• Problem Solving, Building and Leading High Performing Teams, Thought Leadership
• Technical mindset and product development driven experience and ability to deep dive on technical issues and provide guidance to the team.
• Exposure in Program Management, dependency and development tracking of the product across the teams.
• Passion for quick learning and adapting in a fast-paced global environment
• Strong sense of ownership, focus on quality, responsiveness, efficiency and innovation
• Great communication skills, ability to work with other teams and people. Good stake holder management skills.
• A proven track record for ability to work with distributed teams in a collaborative and productive manner
• Retail / E-Commerce background is an advantage.

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...G, 1, 3, 4, 5 Floor, Building 11, Sez, Cessna Business Park, Kadubeesanahalli Village, Varthur Hobli , India