(USA) Senior Director, Software Engineering

Walmart • Bentonville, AR

1d • $160,000 - $320,000

About The Position

The Senior Director of Software Engineering will be a pivotal technology leader overseeing the delivery and people management for runtime teams.If you are inspired by the opportunity to solve complex platform problems at scale and make a difference for our customers and members, this is the right place to join. About the Team We are a dynamic engineering team focused on transformation of Runtime platforms (RTP) at Walmart. Runtime platform is the heart of Walmart’s Global Tech Platform (GTP), where the org supports Traffic Management, Container Management (k8s), VM management, Experimentation Platform, Identity Management, Configuration and Secrets Management. All the Walmart business run on this platform making it as one of the pivotal organizations. The team consists of highly motivated and talented associates who has best knowledge in respective domains. As part of Runtime platform, you'll play a key role in driving the Runtime organization owning the delivery of runtime products and initiatives. Today, the runtime platforms support every revenue generating application at Walmart, making it one of the mission critical software foundations to run Walmart business effectively serving our customers securely and reliably.

Requirements

• Extensive experience in managing large-scale experimentation platform
• Extensive experience in managing large-scale data pipeline, data stitching platforms
• Deep expertise and thorough understanding of ITIL concepts and processes
• Hands on experience of setting up and running production operations and processes
• Practical experience with cloud networking (Azure, GCP, AWS), Kubernetes networking, and service mesh technologies (Istio, Envoy, Linkerd).
• Over 10 years of experience in platform development, cloud solutions, and delivering large-scale web events.
• Proven track record of enhancing operational excellence and achieving service restoration within 5 minutes through observability and automation-enabled service recovery.
• Competent communication and presentation skills for driving vision, motivating teams, and engaging executive leaders.
• Strong collaboration and communication abilities, capable of building robust relationships across cross-functional teams and senior stakeholders.
• Demonstrated ability to influence across functional boundaries, build consensus, and align teams toward shared objectives.
• Success in hiring, mentoring, and developing top-tier engineering talent establishing high-performance and impactful teams.
• A strong inclination towards innovation, committed to advancing technology solutions and introducing new methods to address complex challenges.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or related area and 7 years’ experience in software engineering or related area.
• 9 years’ experience in software engineering or related area.
• 4 years’ supervisory experience.

Nice To Haves

• Master’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.
• We value candidates with a background in creating inclusive digital experiences, demonstrating knowledge in implementing Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 AA standards, assistive technologies, and integrating digital accessibility seamlessly.
• The ideal candidate would have knowledge of accessibility best practices and join us as we continue to create accessible products and services following Walmart’s accessibility standards and guidelines for supporting an inclusive culture.

Responsibilities

• Leading a team of senior engineering leaders and architects to design, build, and run the next-generation runtime platform.
• Building and nurturing a world-class engineering organization, including recruiting, mentoring, and developing senior architects and engineering leaders to foster a high-performing team.
• Proactively identifying and addressing customer issues, ensuring continuous improvement in platform performance, reliability, and user experience.
• Cultivating a culture of innovation, platform thinking, and engineering excellence, driving continuous improvement in both product development and operational efficiency.
• Enforce strong platform mindset to build products that support business innovation and growth keeping the operational excellence for business continuity
• Collaborate with your peers in runtime teams to build a cohesive and integrated offering across runtime technology stack.
• Collaborating with product, business, and operations leaders to define, prioritize, and execute the product and technology roadmap for runtime systems, ensuring alignment with broader business objectives.
• Constantly look for optimization in terms of cost, efficiency and improve the availability, performance and resiliency posture.
• Convert management level goals into roadmap and initiatives, drive the initiative through strategic decision. Define, design and deliver the objectives and key results with metrics driven success measure.
• This role requires a visionary leader who can balance technical expertise with strategic business acumen, and who is passionate about shaping the future of Walmart Global Technology Platform.

Benefits

• Beyond competitive pay, you can receive incentive awards for your performance.
• Other great benefits include a 401(k) match, stock purchase plan, paid maternity and parental leave, PTO, multiple health plans, flexible working hours, and more.
• Health benefits include medical, vision and dental coverage.
• Financial benefits include 401(k), stock purchase and company-paid life insurance.
• Paid time off benefits include PTO (including sick leave), parental leave, family care leave, bereavement, jury duty, and voting.
• Other benefits include short-term and long-term disability, company discounts, Military Leave Pay, adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, and more.
• Live Better U is a Walmart-paid education benefit program for full-time and part-time associates in Walmart and Sam's Club facilities. Programs range from high school completion to bachelor's degrees, including English Language Learning and short-form certificates. Tuition, books, and fees are completely paid for by Walmart.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director