Associate Fellow I, Engineer

Walmart • Herndon, VA

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About The Position

The Associate Fellow I is a hands-on technical role on Walmart Global Tech’s Corporate Tech Strategy (CTS), Finance Technology team. The role supports architectural designs and provides advisory across enterprise business domains, while helping set technology strategy and architecture for a business area. It involves deep technical work on applications and services, higher-level system designs spanning functional boundaries, building systems, and serving as a central technical resource.

The position works directly with engineering teams to improve designs, reduce complexity, encourage better practices, and strengthen technical expertise. It contributes to systemic decoupling and shared standards, with the goal of improving production-system quality, stability, and availability. The role also builds, mentors, and trains an engineering community, and supports reliable, secure, and performant platforms, products, and frameworks.

The position requires a bachelor’s degree in a relevant computing field and 10 years of relevant technology or engineering experience in large-scale, transaction-intensive products or product groups in a globally distributed work environment, or 18 years of such experience in lieu of the degree. The listed primary location is Herndon, Virginia.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or a related area, plus 10 years of technology/engineering experience focused on large-scale, transaction-intensive products or product groups in a globally distributed work environment; alternatively, 18 years of such experience without the degree.
• Experience developing large-scale products in an open-stack and microservices delivery environment.
• In-depth knowledge of building distributed systems and products using hybrid cloud technology and handling massive amounts of data.
• Experience building a complex microservices-based platform or product.
• Knowledge of packaged software releases.
• Knowledge of open-stack technology capabilities, such as Python, Spark, and Skala.
• Strong data integration capability, such as data engineering.
• Experience or demonstrated ability to drive technical vision and provide technical mentorship to engineering talent at all levels.
• Established credibility as an advisor on complex technical issues and projects.
• Experience working with globally distributed teams.
• Familiarity with new technology trends.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with Agile methodologies.
• Experience with performance instrumentation, tuning, and optimization of large-scale products.
• Good knowledge of design patterns for building cloud-native products.
• Hybrid workplace domain experience.
• Knowledge of WCAG 2.2 AA standards, assistive technologies, digital accessibility best practices, and accessibility standards and guidelines.

Responsibilities

• Lead and inspire engineering teams building and scaling reliable, secure, and performant platforms, products, and frameworks.
• Promote engineering excellence, execution, and a build-for-scale mindset.
• Build trusted partnerships with developers, business partners, product leaders, and architecture leaders to improve platform and product delivery.
• Lead complex technical and strategic discussions with engineering, architecture, product, associates, and other stakeholders.
• Assess and leverage existing Walmart Global solutions to build scalable and innovative solutions.
• Build, mentor, and teach a community of engineers, and advise on complex projects and issues.
• Take ownership and act with urgency to solve problems.
• Support engineering teams with architectural design and advisory, reduce complexity, improve practices, and strengthen technical expertise.
• Contribute to systemic decoupling, shared standards, and improvements to production-system quality, stability, and availability.

What This Job Offers

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