Position Summary...
Provides overall direction by analyzing business objectives and customer needs; developing, communicating, building support for, and implementing business strategies, plans, and practices; analyzing costs and forecasts and incorporating them into business plans; determining and supporting resource requirements; evaluating operational processes; measuring outcomes to ensure desired results; identifying and capitalizing on improvement opportunities; promoting a customer environment; and demonstrating adaptability and sponsoring continuous learning. Develops and implements strategies to attract and maintain a highly skilled and engaged workforce by diagnosing capability gaps; recruiting, selecting, and developing talent; supporting mentorship, workforce development, and succession planning; and leveraging the capabilities of new and existing talent. Cultivates an environment where associates respect and adhere to company standards of integrity and ethics by integrating these values into all programs and practices; developing consequences for violations or non-compliance; and supporting the Open Door Policy. Develops and leverages internal and external partnerships and networks to maximize the achievement of business goals by sponsoring and leading key community outreach and involvement initiatives; engaging key stakeholders in the development, execution, and evaluation of appropriate business plans and initiatives; and supporting associate efforts in these areas.
What you'll do...
Job Title: Senior Distinguished Architect
Job Summary
The Senior Distinguished Architect role is a hands-on leadership role that supports architectural designs and advisory with in Enterprise Business Services team in IDC. This is a highly technical role positioned uniquely to drive disruptive growth across key priorities by leveraging differentiated technical prowess. The right candidate would be required to go deep into specific application and services, and work on higher-level multi-domain system designs, transcending functional boundaries.
About The Team
The Enterprise People Technology team supports the successful deployment and adoption of new People technology across the enterprise. People Technology is one of the major segments of Walmart Global Tech’s Enterprise Business Services, which is invested in building a compact, robust organization that includes service operations and technology solutions for Finance, People, and the Associate Digital Experience.
Enterprise Business Services @ IDC Bangalore and Chennai in India are focused on data driven, highly optimized products and implementations in the areas of Finance, Procurement, Human Resources and Retail business functions for multiple Walmart markets with open stack technologies and other ERP tools.
What will you Do?
The Senior Distinguished Architect role is a hands-on role that supports architectural designs and advisory for retail domain areas owned by teams in IDC. Impact is to bring in technology leadership for technology solutions and platforms to solve business problems of Walmart and retail industry in general.
To begin with this role the incumbent should be setting new standards at enterprise level and eventually grow into path breaking tech solutions or standards for industry -EBS.
Providing direct support and engagement to engineering teams, will improve designs, reduce complexity, and contribute to adoption of better practices and strengthened expertise. Contribute towards larger systemic decoupling, and better shared standards. Work to elevate the entire engineering org and improve the overall quality, stability, and availability of our production systems.
This role has a huge impact to the business as the new designed platform will power the growth of the target market to multi-billion dollars.
Some key responsibilities include:
- Lead and inspire high-performing engineering teams in omni-channel retail to build and scale highly reliable, secure, and performant platform / products and frameworks.
- Own the technical design, realization and Devops for a complex micro services ecosystem for a large-scale warehouse retail company.
- Drive a results-oriented culture with a strong focus on engineering excellence, execution and propagate build for scale mindset.
- Develop trusted partnerships with developers, partners, and architecture leaders to drive optimized platform / product delivery.
- Lead complex technical and strategic discussions that involve multiple personas including engineering, architect, product, customer, and other stakeholders.
- Drive development and designs/solutions involving the integration of varied technologies and products to meet business objectives.
- Bring a strong industry perspective that can help shape and evolve the internal developer experience to be as good or better than other leading technology organizations.
- Drive effective, mature Agile practices and continuous execution improvements within your teams.
- Assess and leverage technology when appropriate from Global solutions existing in Walmart ecosystem to build / leverage scalable and innovative solutions.
- High sense of urgency to solve problems and in executing them with extreme ownership.
- Attitude to enjoy in a fun, fast-paced environment.
What you will bring
- 18+ years of experience of engineering experience with a focus large scale product development in open stack and microservices delivery environment
- Should have a keen eye for new technology trends and how they can be used to help grow the business, and a proven ability to be a game changer.
- A technical expert with in-depth knowledge in building distributed systems and products using hybrid cloud technology handling massive amounts of data. Should have built a complex microservices based platform or product.
- Strong knowledge about
- Azure or GCP
- Retail domain
- Digital transformation
- Strong technical background with the capability of being hands-on as required.
- Ability to set and drive technical vision and provide technical mentorship to all levels of engineering talent. Should have established credibility as a central resource, utilized by teams to seek advisory on complex technical issues and projects.
- Depth focus and an attitude to understand and resolve complex technical issues.
- Experience of working with globally distributed teams.
- Excellent interpersonal skills, good with people, ability to negotiate.
Preferred experiences and exposures:
- Understand the product and project management space with Agile methodologies.
- Have good experience in performance instrumentation, tuning, and optimization of large-scale products.
- Have good knowledge in design patterns while building cloud-native products.
- Experience in the eCommerce domain will be a huge positive.
Tech Skills - Languages - Java/J2EE, Spring boot
⁃ Micro Services Architecture, Event-Driven Architectures
⁃ Cloud - Azure, GCP
⁃ Messaging Queues - Kafka, RabbitMQ, Apache
Ways of Working
Flexible, hybrid work
We use a hybrid way of working with primary in office presence coupled with an optimal mix of virtual presence. We use our campuses to collaborate and be together in person, as business needs require and for development and networking opportunities. This approach helps us make quicker decisions, remove location barriers across our global team, be more flexible in our personal lives.
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.
Walmart Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer – By Choice. We believe we are best equipped to help our associates, customers, and the communities we serve to live better when we really know them. That means understanding, respecting, and valuing diversity- unique styles, experiences, identities, ideas, and opinions – while being inclusive of all people.
Minimum Qualifications...
Outlined below are the required minimum qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no minimum qualifications.
Option 1: Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or related area and 7 years’ experience in software engineering or related area.
Option 2: 9 years’ experience in software engineering or related area.
Preferred Qualifications...
Outlined below are the optional preferred qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no preferred qualifications.
Master’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.
Primary Location...
Pardhanani Wilshire II, Cessna Business Park, Kadubeesanahalli Village, Varthur Hobli , India
