Senior Manager, Software Engineering

Walmart

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

Position Summary... As Senior Manager Engineering in Data Ventures, you will be leading a Dev Ops team of engineers. You will be responsible for strategy, delivery, people, and operations that cut across Data Ventures products with a good blend of technical leadership with people and process management. What you'll do... At Walmart, we help people save money, so they can live better. This mission serves as the foundation for every decision we make and drives us to create the future of retail. We can’t do that without the best talent – talent that is innovative, curious, and driven to create exceptional experiences for our customers. About Global Tech Imagine working in an environment where one line of code can make life easier for hundreds of millions of people and put a smile on their face. That’s what we do at Walmart Global Tech. We’re a team of 15,000+ software engineers, data scientists and service professionals within Walmart, the world’s largest retailer, delivering innovations that improve how our customers shop and empower our 2.3 million associates. To others, innovation looks like an app, service or some code, but Walmart has always been about people. People are why we innovate, and people power our innovations. Being human led is our true disruption. The India Development Center is a product & innovation hub for Walmart, with a diverse workforce spread across Bangalore, Chennai, and Gurgaon. Our teams collaborate across the global to build and deploy solutions that enhance our customer experience, improve the lives of our associates, and build value for our business. About our team - Data Ventures Data Ventures exists to unlock the full value of Walmart’s data by developing and productizing B2B data initiatives that empower merchants and suppliers to make better, faster decisions for the business. As part of this transformation, we’re seeking entrepreneurial individuals to help drive data productization from concept to deployment. Job Summary As Senior Manager Engineering in Data Ventures, you will be leading a Dev Ops team of engineers. You will be responsible for strategy, delivery, people, and operations that cut across Data Ventures products with a good blend of technical leadership with people and process management.

Requirements

• An Engineering Degree - B.E/B.Tech/MS in any stream – Computer Science preferred.
• 12 - 15 years of relevant experience in building highly resilient, highly scalable systems
• 3+ years of leadership/management experience with a team of 10+ engineers.
• A good understanding of Java and Microservices.
• Previous experience with Java, SpringBoot, Cloud (Azure/GCP/AWS ), Kafka (or other messaging service), Memcached/Redis or any caching technologies, relational DBMS ( MySQL, Oracle etc )
• Understand the product and project management space with Agile methodologies.
• CI/CD development environments/tools: Git, Maven, Jenkins.
• Demonstrated end-to-end ownership for development and design of least one cloud-based project - Experience in building extensible platforms, data pipelines is desirable.
• Strong desire to drive change, and ability to adapt to change quickly.
• Proficient in new and emerging technologies.
• Ability to balance the long-term "big picture" and short-term implications of design decisions.
• Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills - including negotiation, facilitation, and consensus building skills; ability to influence and persuade, without direct control.
• Mentoring/coaching Senior staff engineers and other Engineers.
• Focus on reusability, frameworks, patterns and configurations tools for faster development.
• Practitioner of Agile (Scrum) methodology
• 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

• Leads and participates in medium- to large-scale projects by reviewing project requirements, translating requirements into technical solutions, gathering requested information, writing and developing code, conducting unit testing.
• Communicating status and issues to team members and stakeholders.
• Collaborating with project team and cross functional teams.
• Troubleshooting open issues and bug-fixes, ensuring on-time delivery and hand-offs.
• Interacting with project manager to provide input on project plan.
• Troubleshoots business and production issues by gathering information (for example, issue, impact, criticality, possible root cause), engaging support teams to assist in the resolution of issues.
• Formulating an action plan, performing actions as designated in the plan.
• Interpreting the results to determine further action, performs root cause analysis to prevent future occurrence of issues and completing online documentation.
• Provides support to the business by responding to user's questions, concerns, and issues (for example, technical feasibility, implementation strategies).
• Facilitating resolutions and leading cross-functional partnership.
• Leads the discovery phase of medium to large projects to come up with high level design by partnering with the product management, project management, business and user experience teams and obtaining cross-function approvals.
• Demonstrates up-to-date expertise and applies this to the development, execution and improvement of action plans by providing expert advice and guidance to others.
• Supporting and aligning efforts to meet customer, business needs and building commitment for perspectives and rationales.
• Provides and supports the implementation of business solutions by building relationships and partnerships with key stakeholders.
• Identifying business needs, determining and carrying out necessary processes and practices.
• Monitoring progress and results and adapting to competing demands, organizational changes, and new responsibilities.
• Models compliance with company policies, procedures and supports company mission, values, and standards of ethics and integrity by incorporating these into the development and implementation of business plans
• Create software design and architecture for next software solution. This will be your channel to communicate your ideas with rest of the team. Not just one but evaluate multiple solutions
• Analyze competing requirements and articulate tradeoffs and lead discussions with business and development team, leading white board sessions with team.
• Drives the execution of multiple business plans and projects by identifying customer and operational needs.
• Developing and communicating business plans and priorities, removing barriers and obstacles that impact performance.
• Demonstrating adaptability and supporting continuous learning.
• Creates training documentation.
• Oversees the tasks of less experienced programmers and stipulates system troubleshooting supports.
• Ensures business needs are being met by evaluating the ongoing effectiveness of current plans, programs, and initiatives.
• Consulting with business partners, managers, co-workers, or key stakeholder.
• Soliciting, evaluating, and applying suggestions for improving efficiency and cost effectiveness and participating in and supporting community outreach events.
• Build, develop and guide high-performing talent for the Scintilla engineering team.
• Lead, mentor, and manage a team of DevOps engineers
• Define and execute the DevOps strategy aligned with business goals
• Own and evolve CI/CD pipelines to enable fast, reliable, and secure releases
• Oversee cloud infrastructure, scalability, availability, and performance
• Drive DevSecOps practices, including security automation and compliance
• Ensure high system reliability through monitoring, alerting, and incident management
• Lead post-incident reviews and drive root cause analysis and remediation
• Collaborate with engineering, QA, security, and product teams
• Establish and track DevOps metrics (DORA, uptime, MTTR, deployment frequency)
• Manage on-call rotations and operational readiness
• Optimize infrastructure and cloud costs using FinOps best practices
• Define standards, best practices, and governance for DevOps operations
• Support hiring, onboarding, performance management, and career development
• Communicate technical risks, progress, and outcomes to leadership
• Engage with leadership in SV (Sunnyvale) , BV (Bentonville) , Reston, Bengaluru centers and set up strategy and priorities to maintain the platform
• Promote and support company policies, procedures, mission, values, and standards of ethics and integrity.
• Provide supervision, mentoring and development opportunities for associates who report into you.

Benefits

• Beyond our great compensation package, you can receive incentive awards for your performance.
• Other great perks include a host of best-in-class benefits maternity and parental leave, PTO, health benefits, and much more.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 11-50 employees