Senior Manager, Software Engineering

Walmart • Bentonville, AR

1d • $110,000 - $220,000 • Onsite

About The Position

The Senior Manager, Software Engineering leads platform-level execution of software, ensuring alignment with strategic priorities and roadmap milestones. This role oversees infrastructure, tooling, and frameworks that support scalable, secure development while driving full lifecycle management across multiple teams. The position champions DevOps practices, cloud cost optimization, and technical excellence to deliver high-availability systems. Collaborating across engineering, product, and data teams, the manager guides architectural decisions, mentors engineers, and manages complex initiatives to achieve business objectives with a focus on continuous improvement and operational efficiency. This is techno-functional and leadership role, which needs hands-on and rolled up sleeves to actively code and design. The Senior Manager, Software Engineering steers architecture decisions and leads team towards stabilizing complex platforms while laying the foundation for next-generation modernization.

Requirements

• Experience: 7–10+ years in Data Engineering, building and operating large-scale, distributed, fault-tolerant data platforms, with at least 3+ years in a leadership role.
• Data Engineering Mastery: Deep-rooted expertise in Data Fundamentals. You must be an expert in data modeling (Star/Snowflake, Data Vault), storage formats (Parquet, Avro), and distributed computing concepts (sharding, replication, and CAP theorem).
• Real-Time Expertise: Deep experience with Kafka and event-driven architectures. You understand how to manage state, schema evolution, and consistency in streaming environments (Kafka Streams, Flink, or Spark Streaming).
• Semantic & AI: Familiarity with the modern AI stack—specifically Vector Databases (Pinecone, Milvus), Knowledge Graphs, and framework orchestration (LangChain, LlamaIndex, CrewAI).
• Cloud Scale Mastery: Proven track record in GCP or Azure, utilizing BigQuery, Dataflow, and Pub/Sub to handle petabyte-scale workloads.
• Engineering Rigor: Fluency in Python, Java, or Scala, with a deep engineering mindset around testability, maintainability, and high-performance system design.
• Proven experience leading platform engineering and software development lifecycle across multiple teams.
• Strong expertise in DevOps architecture, CI/CD practices, and cloud financial management (FinOps).
• Demonstrated ability to manage complex technical initiatives with effective stakeholder collaboration.
• Proficiency in project management, milestone tracking, and technology roadmap execution.
• Skilled in guiding architectural reviews and ensuring system scalability, maintainability, and performance.
• Ability to mentor engineers, promote technical excellence, and foster continuous improvement.

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

• Own end-to-end delivery of small to medium platform initiatives from discovery through production, ensuring clear requirements, strong designs, and on-time delivery.
• Lead design and delivery of scalable, reliable batch and streaming data platforms, services, and APIs aligned to long-term platform needs.
• Drive strong engineering practices across data modeling, schemas, API contracts, performance, security, and observability.
• Modernize the Finance Data Factory by consolidating point solutions into a cohesive platform with built-in data quality, lineage, metadata, and automation.
• Be accountable for production quality and reliability, including testing strategy, observability, incident response, RCA, and preventive actions.
• Ensure teams align to reference architectures, engineering standards, and platform patterns through design and code reviews.
• Partner closely with product, business, and peer engineering leaders to align on outcomes, timelines, dependencies, and delivery commitments.
• Proactively manage execution risks, communicate status and trade-offs, and ensure smooth cross-team handoffs.
• Mentor and develop engineers by setting technical direction, providing feedback, and growing ownership and technical depth across the team.

Benefits

• At Walmart, we offer competitive pay as well as performance-based bonus awards and other great benefits for a happier mind, body, and wallet.
• Health benefits include medical, vision and dental coverage.
• Financial benefits include 401(k), stock purchase and company-paid life insurance.
• Paid time off benefits include PTO (including sick leave), parental leave, family care leave, bereavement, jury duty, and voting.
• Other benefits include short-term and long-term disability, company discounts, Military Leave Pay, adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, and more.
• You will also receive PTO and/or PPTO that can be used for vacation, sick leave, holidays, or other purposes.
• Live Better U is a Walmart-paid education benefit program for full-time and part-time associates in Walmart and Sam's Club facilities. Programs range from high school completion to bachelor's degrees, including English Language Learning and short-form certificates. Tuition, books, and fees are completely paid for by Walmart.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Number of Employees: 1-10 employees