(USA) Principal Software Engineer - Tech

Walmart•Bentonville, AR

About The Position

As a Principal Software Engineer, you will lead the design and delivery of scalable SAP platform capabilities. You will oversee the full software development lifecycle across multiple teams, ensuring high availability, reliability, and performance. You will provide strategic technical leadership, mentor engineering teams, and collaborate with stakeholders to translate complex business needs into effective technical solutions. Your expertise will support Walmart’s long-term platform evolution while fostering continuous improvement and operational excellence. The Walmart Payroll Modernization Team is transforming how payroll technology is built, operated, and scaled for a large workforce. The team owns the strategy, design, implementation, and continuous evolution of next-generation payroll platforms, ensuring associates are paid accurately and on time while meeting complex regulatory and business requirements. Working across product, engineering, and payroll operations, the team modernizes payroll, builds new capabilities, simplifies legacy processes, supports large-scale business transformations, and establishes engineering and operational practices. The role contributes to a large Payroll Modernization program delivering payroll solutions that support more than 1.6 million associates each month. It defines and drives the strategic architecture of enterprise payroll solutions, with emphasis on scalability, compliance, security, and operational resilience across US payroll operations. It leads the design and implementation of payroll capabilities including payroll processing, retroactive accounting, taxation, garnishments, benefits deductions, time integration, off-cycle payments, and year-end processing.

Requirements

Option 1: Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or a related area and 5 years of experience in software engineering or a related area.
Option 2: 7 years of experience in software engineering or a related area.
Deep technical expertise in ABAP, ABAP HR, ABAP OO, CDS Views, AMDP, OData Services, Enhancements, Forms, Interfaces, Workflow, and SAP Integration technologies.
Proven experience designing and building scalable, high-performance applications and integrations across SAP and non-SAP platforms.
Experience with EPI-USE Variance Monitor and other SOLMAN/ALM tools.
Experience integrating SAP solutions with enterprise platforms such as Workday, ServiceNow, SAP Finance (FI), SuccessFactors, cloud services, and custom applications.
Strong understanding of software design principles, system architecture patterns, security, performance optimization, and operational excellence.

Responsibilities

Lead the design and delivery of scalable SAP platform capabilities.
Oversee the full software development lifecycle across multiple teams, ensuring high availability, reliability, and performance.
Provide strategic technical leadership and mentor engineering teams.
Collaborate with stakeholders to translate complex business needs into technical solutions.
Define and drive the strategic architecture of enterprise payroll solutions for scalability, compliance, security, and operational resilience.
Lead the design and implementation of payroll processing, retroactive accounting, taxation, garnishments, benefits deductions, time integration, off-cycle payments, and year-end processing.
Support continuous improvement and operational excellence across engineering initiatives.

Benefits

Competitive pay and performance-based bonus awards.
Medical, vision, and dental coverage.
401(k), stock purchase, and company-paid life insurance.
Paid time off, including sick leave, parental leave, family care leave, bereavement leave, jury duty, and voting leave.
Short-term and long-term disability.
Company discounts.
Military Leave Pay.
Adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement.
PTO and/or PPTO that can be used for vacation, sick leave, holidays, or other purposes.
Live Better U, a Walmart-paid education benefit program for eligible full-time and part-time associates, covering programs from high school completion to bachelor's degrees, English Language Learning, and short-form certificates, including tuition, books, and fees.