Associate Fellow I, Engineer

Walmart • Herndon, VA

21h

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 position supports architectural design and advisory work across enterprise business domains, contributes to technical strategy and architecture, and helps drive growth and innovation across business priorities. The role involves working deeply with specific applications and services as well as developing multi-domain system designs that cross functional boundaries.

The Associate Fellow supports engineering teams by improving designs, reducing complexity, and encouraging better practices and stronger technical expertise. The role contributes to systemic decoupling and shared standards while helping improve production-system quality, stability, and availability. It also includes building systems and engineering communities, mentoring and training engineers, and serving as a central technical resource for complex projects and issues.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or a related area and 10 years of technology or engineering experience working on large-scale, transaction-intensive products or product groups in a globally distributed work environment; or 18 years of such experience without the specified degree.
• Experience developing large-scale products in open-stack and microservices delivery environments.
• 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.
• Strong knowledge of packaged software releases and 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 creating inclusive digital experiences and implementing Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 AA standards.
• Knowledge of assistive technologies and digital accessibility best practices.

Responsibilities

• Lead and inspire engineering teams to build and scale reliable, secure, and performant platforms, products, and frameworks.
• Promote engineering excellence, effective execution, and a build-for-scale mindset.
• Develop partnerships with developers, business partners, product leaders, and architecture leaders to improve platform and product delivery.
• Lead complex technical and strategic discussions involving engineering, architecture, product, associates, and other stakeholders.
• Assess and leverage existing Walmart Global solutions where appropriate to create scalable and innovative solutions.
• Build, mentor, and teach a community of engineers, and provide technical advice on complex projects and issues.
• Support engineering teams by improving designs, reducing complexity, and encouraging better practices and stronger expertise.
• Contribute to systemic decoupling, shared standards, and improved production-system quality, stability, and availability.
• Take ownership of solving problems with a strong sense of urgency.

What This Job Offers

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