(USA) Senior Manager, Software Engineering

Walmart • Sunnyvale, CA

11d

About The Position

Position Summary... What you'll do... Working at Sam’s Club means a career without boundaries. There’s always room to grow, to take on another challenge, to roll up your sleeves and contribute, and to find professional rewards for your hard work. Yes, we are a division of the Fortune #1 company, Walmart, Inc. But you’ll quickly find that we’re a company that wants you to feel comfortable bringing your whole self to work. A career at Sam’s Club is where the world’s most complex challenges meet a kinder way of life. From day one, you’ll be empowered and equipped to do the best work of your life. 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 unrivaled 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 centers, tire and battery centers, and a portfolio of business operations support services. Our Catalog Engineering team has built a highly scalable Omni Catalog Service. You will work on NextGen upstream integration, catalog migration to a new platform, and develop highly scalable catalog micro services. You’ll independently handle high impact, critical software/systems monitoring issues, troubleshoot business and production issues. As a member of this fast-moving and highly entrepreneurial team, you’ll be able to say that you work for the world’s largest retailer and contribute to innovation and development to best-in-class methodologies that impacted perception and drastically changed business as we know it. As a Senior Manager, Software Engineering part of Sam’s Global Technologies Team, you will make an impact by: Building and leading teams: Set and manage globally distributed engineering teams Providing cross-functional leadership: Working cross-functionally with product, engineering, program, and business teams to deliver omni-solutions across Sam’s Tech Developing and executing plans: Drive the execution of multiple business plans and tech initiatives. Effectively communicate execution, capacity, resource plans, and priorities Building strategic relationships: Partner with peer teams to help design omni-presence solution across clubs and online Operating with excellence: Set an example in managing code quality via reviews, coverage, automation for core application and peer teams. Contribute to technology backlog based on reviews. About Walmart Global Tech: Imagine working in an environment where one line of code can make life easier for hundreds of millions of people. Thats what we do at Walmart Global Tech. Were a team of software engineers, data scientists, cybersecurity experts 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. Weare 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. Living the Walmart Value: Focus on our Associates / Belonging - Identifies, attracts, and retains top talent; builds a high-performing team; embraces a culture of belonging

Requirements

• People Management with 6+ more direct reports
• Technology Background of Software Engineering with Java, Cloud Technologies, and Data Engineering
• In-depth knowledge of industry best practices, technologies, architectures, and emerging technologies specifically in retail systems landscape
• Experience delivering applications at scale leveraging public cloud.
• Experience in creating high performing teams through accountability, metrics, innovation, automation, and CI/CD
• Experience driving engineering teams using Agile process to drive innovation, accelerate decisions and outcomes while minimizing risk.
• Experience in making successful trade-offs that balance the short- and long-term goals and initiatives.
• Ability to work with cross-org stakeholders to plan and deliver critical services.
• A strong commitment to developing Associates and helping them achieve their personal and career goals.
• Executive presence skills to present to senior leadership
• Background experience with software language such as RESTful Services, Java/J2EE, JavaScript, Python, NoSql.
• Working knowledge of one or more cloud technologies such as AZURE, GCP, OpenStack
• Work with a team of highly skilled developers and testing professionals to deliver high quality test automation and products.
• Experience in internet-scale distributed technologies (e.g. Kafka, Mem Cache, etc.)
• Relevant experience with relational and no-sql databases (e.g. Cassandra, etc.)
• Advanced knowledge of complex software design, distributed system design, design patterns, data structures and algorithms.
• Understanding of Architecture and Design patterns
• Strong communication and presentation skills to influence others and gain alignment
• Foster culture of innovation, continuous learning & development among the team
• 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.

Nice To Haves

• 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.
• 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

• Building and leading teams: Set and manage globally distributed engineering teams
• Providing cross-functional leadership: Working cross-functionally with product, engineering, program, and business teams to deliver omni-solutions across Sam’s Tech
• Developing and executing plans: Drive the execution of multiple business plans and tech initiatives. Effectively communicate execution, capacity, resource plans, and priorities
• Building strategic relationships: Partner with peer teams to help design omni-presence solution across clubs and online
• Operating with excellence: Set an example in managing code quality via reviews, coverage, automation for core application and peer teams. Contribute to technology backlog based on reviews.
• Work on major architectural enhancements to achieve system uptime of 99.99% by making several microservices and infrastructure components fault tolerant and highly available system.
• Engage in development and maintenance of eCommerce applications.
• Design & develop highly scalable services and solve complex software systems problems by leveraging state-of-the-art technology.
• Gain exposure to various emerging technologies used in Advertising and E-commerce platforms.
• Provide technical direction, architecture leadership and expertise to the team.
• Lead by example. Show your chops as an exceptional and experienced developer.
• Drive projects of high visibility across the organization.
• Participate in medium- to large-scale, complex, cross-functional projects by reviewing project, product and business requirements; translating requirements into technical solutions; gathering requested information (for example, design documents, product requirement); designing robust and scalable architectures; writing and developing code; conducting unit testing; communicating status and issues to team members and stakeholders; collaborating with cross functional teams; troubleshooting open issues and bug-fixes; enhancing design to prevent re-occurrences of defects; ensuring on-time delivery;

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, 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 company 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: Mid Level