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...

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.

Team and Position Summary:

U.S. Technology: This business closely partners with our U.S. stores and eCommerce business to serve customers by empowering associates, stores and merchants with technology innovation. rom grocery and entertainment to sporting goods and crafts, Walmart U.S. provides the deep assortment that our customers appreciate — whether they're shopping online at Walmart.com, through one of our mobile apps or shopping in a store. The focus areas include customer, stores and associates, in-store service, merchant tools, merchant data science and search & personalization. 

Our org is responsible for Design, development, and operations of Availability platform encompassing multiple high qps low latency subsystems. We interact with multiple teams across the company to provide scalable robust technical solutions in said space.

What You will Do

As a Senior Engineering Manager, you’ll play a pivotal role in: building a passionate team and meaningful product that will fundamentally change the way people interact with e-commerce applications. You will be focused on driving part of strategic horizontal initiatives that advance the skills and capabilities of the organisation, while at the same time improving the level of enablement for partners and stakeholders. You will be responsible for growing the team; working closely with our engineering, design and product teams to deliver on our vision for the future and help evolve our apps.

• In this role you will be responsible to manage and grow fullstack team(s) of experienced and passionate engineers (Node, React, Java, ML)

• You will work closely with our product, design, and UX teams to create amazing and intuitive experiences that make it effortless to connect different apps together

• You will lead and participate in technical, design, and product discussions with leaders across the organization and company

• Build a world-class team by hiring exceptional talent, coaching and developing engineers, cultivating pragmatic data driven engineering decision-making, and leveraging your technical expertise to constantly raise the bar

• You will also be required to have strong communication & interpersonal skills to collaborate with & manage stakeholders and other cross-functional teams.

Our Ideal Candidate

You have a deep interest and passion for technology. You love owning new responsibilities and enjoy working with people who will keep challenging you at every stage. You have strong problem solving, analytic, decision-making and excellent communication with interpersonal skills. You are self-driven and motivated with entrepreneurial passion and desire to work in a fast -paced, results- driven agile environment with varied responsibilities. You have a passion to mentor and drive technical associates to deliver quality products in an agile environment. You have a flare to setup new process and bring in an innovative mindset to drive the team. 

What You Will Bring

Minimum qualifications:

• B.E./B. Tech/MS in Computer Science or related technical field.
• 12+ years of experience in design and development of highly scalable applications and plaxtform in product based companies / R&D divisions with 2+ years of managing and mentoring experience (including providing direct feedback, investing in the career growth of your team)
• Ability to balance the long-term "big picture" and short term implications of design decisions.
• Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills - including negotiation, facilitation and consensus building skills; ability to influence and persuade, without direct control.
• Proven experience of designing / leading scalable cloud native solutions which good grip on cloud platform, CI/CD and associated build pipelines.
• People management

Additional Qualifications:

• An eye for design and an ear for the customer; engineering leader who makes substantive contributions to product definition.
• Avid practitioner of Agile (Scrum) methodology & practices.
• A commitment to continuous improvement (yourself, your teammates, our software).
• Eagerness to share your own ideas, and openness to those of others.

About Walmart Global Tech

From entry-level to executive positions, Walmart provides limitless opportunities for growth, and career development. Walmart started small, with a single discount store and the simple philosophy of selling more for less. Today, we are a growing technology-enabled company founded on the same values as our first store. We establish clear expectations, empower associates to manage their work, and hold ourselves and one another to a high standard. Walmart's scale enables us to have an. No other company has the reach of Walmart, with 2.3 million associates worldwide and over 230 million weekly customers. Walmart is reshaping retail by investing in an expanding workforce. While technology is at the heart of our digital transformation, people are the reason we succeed and the force behind our innovations. We train our team in the skillsets of the future and bring in experts like you to help us grow.

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