Senior Director, Data Engineering

Walmart•Bentonville, AR

About The Position

As Senior Director of Engineering for Global Data Foundations at Walmart Global Tech, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the future of our data and analytics capabilities. Leading a talented and diverse team of data engineers distributed across the globe, you will spearhead the development and maintenance of cutting-edge data products that fuel our business growth and customer-centric initiatives. The Data Engineering team helps Walmart manage its vast volume of data by building pipelines and data lakes to prepare big data for analysis and unlocking actionable insights in real-time. The team also utilizes cross-departmental data and machine learning to build a holistic view of true profitability, aiming to save millions of dollars across item categories and geographies while assisting leadership in making faster, better decisions.

Requirements

Bachelor of Engineering degree or closely related discipline.
15+ years of experience in building data pipeline design, architecture and deployment review.
A strong understanding of data platforms, data and reporting engines, data modeling and warehousing, and data transformations and pipelines for supporting real time and batch-oriented events processing.
Experience with Big data technologies like Hadoop, Spark and cloud based solutions like Big Query.
Knowledge of tools like Airflow, Automic, Visualization tools like Power BI, Looker, tableau and languages like Spark, Scala.
Proactive business stakeholder management.
Translate business requirements into strategies and initiatives and drive the execution of deliverables.
Option 1: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and 7 years' experience in software engineering or related field.
Option 2: 9 years’ experience in software engineering or related field.
Option 3: Master's degree in Computer Science and 5 years' experience in software engineering or related field.
6 years' experience in data engineering, database engineering, business intelligence, or business analytics.
3 years' supervisory experience.

Nice To Haves

Data engineering, database engineering, business intelligence, or business analytics.
ETL tools and working with large data sets in the cloud.
Master’s degree in Computer Science or related field and 7 years' experience in software engineering.
Supervisory experience.
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.
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

Driving the Data engineering charter with AI first mindset, bring best practices, solve key enterprise problems for multiple markets.
Develop and leverage a consistent framework with a platform based approach to identify and prioritize uses cases based on business value.
Exhibit thought leadership to solve complex data problems (business & operational), pivotal to Walmart's business and drive actionable insights.
Demonstrate incremental solution based approach with agile and flexible ability to overcome practical problems.
Lead and collaborate with the team to assess customer needs and translate the business problem into an analytical problem.
Establish platform best practices and drive the use of state of art techniques.
Drive continuous improvement by researching industry best practices and incorporating it to our company.

Benefits

Competitive pay
Performance-based bonus awards
Health benefits (medical, vision and dental coverage)
401(k)
Stock purchase
Company-paid life insurance
Paid time off (PTO, including sick leave)
Parental leave
Family care leave
Bereavement
Jury duty
Voting leave
Short-term disability
Long-term disability
Company discounts
Military Leave Pay
Adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement
Live Better U (Walmart-paid education benefit program for full-time and part-time associates in Walmart and Sam's Club facilities, covering tuition, books, and fees for high school completion to bachelor's degrees, English Language Learning and short-form certificates)
Annual or quarterly performance bonuses
Stock