Senior Software Engineer

Walmart • Bentonville, AR

1d • $90,000 - $180,000 • Onsite

About The Position

The Senior Software Engineer performs solution design and software architecture work, including distributed systems, scalability, design patterns, disaster recovery, technology stacks, MVPs, non-functional requirements, and telemetry. The role helps design solutions so processes and applications work together across product components, evaluates design trade-offs against business requirements, and helps translate high-level designs into detailed module designs using mock screens, pseudocode, and functional logic.

The role performs requirements and scope analysis, including traceability, risk and cost analysis, business objectives, requirement classification, and user stories. It identifies gaps between customer or business expectations and existing solutions, anticipates risks during requirements gathering, informs stakeholders, and recommends corrective steps. It contributes user stories for components, applications, and complex work in Agile settings.

The engineer reviews coding standards, languages, frameworks, tools, platforms, and quality, safety, and security standards; selects appropriate languages and development tools; and develops or configures code to meet business and technical requirements. The role builds automation scripts for CI/CD, testing, and other repetitive processes; independently implements telemetry features as required; and applies security policies during development and configuration.

The position also plans and performs testing, including test preparation, objectives, strategy, test types, tools, and environments. It maps customer requirements to test objectives, creates and executes component-level test cases, uses appropriate testing tools, and conducts root-cause analysis to identify errors and defects. Required expertise includes administration, performance tuning, patching, migration, high availability, automation, and disaster recovery for SAP HANA.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field.
• At least 3 years of experience in software engineering or a related field is stated as the minimum education and experience requirement; the employer will accept any amount of experience with the required skills.
• Experience with SAP HANA database performance monitoring, fine-tuning and optimization, workload classes, software patching, backups, and recovery.
• Experience installing and uninstalling SAP HANA support patches, upgrading patches, and performing HANA database migrations.
• Experience using SAP Notes on HANA Database to address index server issues.
• Experience conducting HANA health checks using SAP Mini-check, custom scripts, and automated tasks.
• Experience with system administration using SAP HANA Cockpit and HANA Studio.
• Experience operating HANA on multiple nodes with Pacemaker for high availability.
• Experience with HANA data-volume defragmentation and table partitioning.
• Experience with HANA DB start/stop processes and automation with Lama.
• Experience developing, implementing, and maintaining disaster recovery plans in compliance with departmental and organizational requirements.
• Experience automating and simplifying HANA delivery processes to meet project timelines.
• Experience supervising and managing SAP HANA security certificates and licenses.

Responsibilities

• Perform solution design covering software architecture, distributed systems, scalability, design patterns, disaster recovery, technology stacks, MVPs, non-functional requirements, and telemetry.
• Design solutions that coordinate processes and applications across product components and evaluate design trade-offs against business requirements.
• Translate high-level designs into detailed designs using mock screens, pseudocode, and module-level functional logic.
• Perform requirements and scope analysis, including traceability, risk and cost analysis, business objectives, requirement classification, and user stories.
• Identify gaps between customer or business expectations and existing solutions; anticipate risks, inform stakeholders, and recommend corrective steps.
• Contribute user stories for components, applications, and complex work in Agile methodologies.
• Review coding standards, languages, frameworks, tools, platforms, and quality, safety, and security standards; assist with selecting languages, standards, and tools.
• Create or configure code to meet business and technical requirements, including non-functional requirements, availability, and scalability needs.
• Build scripts to automate repetitive tasks in CI/CD, testing, or other processes.
• Implement telemetry features as required and apply security policies during code development or configuration.
• Plan and perform testing, map customer requirements to test objectives, create and execute component-level test cases, and conduct root-cause analysis.
• Monitor, fine-tune, and optimize SAP HANA database performance, workload classes, patching, backups, and recovery.
• Install, uninstall, and upgrade SAP HANA support patches; perform HANA database migrations and use SAP Notes to resolve index server issues.
• Conduct HANA health checks using SAP Mini-check, custom scripts, and automated tasks; administer systems using SAP HANA Cockpit and HANA Studio.
• Operate HANA across multiple nodes with Pacemaker for high availability; defragment data volumes and partition tables; manage database start/stop processes and automation with Lama.
• Develop, implement, and maintain disaster recovery plans in compliance with departmental and organizational requirements.
• Automate and simplify HANA delivery processes to produce quick, consistent results within project timelines.
• Supervise and manage SAP HANA security certificates and licenses.

Benefits

• 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 time.
• Short-term and long-term disability.
• Education assistance, including 100% company-paid college degrees.
• Company discounts, military service pay, and adoption expense reimbursement.
• Performance-based incentive awards, including annual or quarterly performance incentives.

What This Job Offers

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