Distinguished, Software Engineer
WalmartAbout the role
Position Summary...
What you'll do...
About Team:
Our team works closely with our US stores and eCommerce business to better serve customers by empowering team members, stores, and merchants with technological innovation. From groceries and entertainment to sporting goods and crafts, Walmart U.S. offers an extensive selection that our customers value, whether they shop online at Walmart.com, through one of our mobile apps, or in-store. Focus areas include customers, stores and employees, in-store service, merchant tools, merchant data science, and search and personalization.
What you'll do:
- Architect Scalable Big Data Platforms
Design and evolve data architectures including data lakes, warehouses, and real-time pipelines (Lambda/Kappa) to support large-scale, business-critical analytics and AI use cases. - Promote Data and Engineering Excellence
Define and implement engineering KPIs for data systems, focusing on data quality, pipeline reliability, governance, and operational efficiency across ingestion, transformation, and delivery layers. - Lead Modernization of Data Ecosystems
Drive the transformation of legacy data systems into modern, agentic, cloud-native platforms using scalable services and best practices in event-driven architecture, microservices, and container orchestration. - Enable Cross-Functional Data Collaboration
Partner with product, analytics, and business teams to define and deliver trusted data products aligning data architecture with business priorities through collaborative design and roadmap planning. - Champion Governance and Reusability
Build reusable patterns for data access, lineage, and stewardship ensuring scalable governance, compliance, and self-service capabilities across the data ecosystem.
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What you'll bring:
- Exceptional Communication ; Influence
Able to clearly articulate complex technical concepts to both engineering and executive audiences, and drive alignment across cross-functional stakeholders. - Strong Business Acumen
Understands how data and technology translate into business value, particularly within financial domains, and uses that insight to guide architectural decisions. - Deep Technical Expertise with a Bias for Innovation
Demonstrates hands-on mastery of modern data architectures and consistently identifies innovative ways to solve problems, modernize platforms, and create scalable impact.
About Walmart Global Tech
Imagine working in an environment where one line of code can make life easier for hundreds of millions of people. That’s what we do at Walmart Global Tech. We’re a team of software engineers, data scientists, cybersecurity expert's and service professionals within the world’s leading retailer who make an epic impact and are at the forefront of the next retail disruption. People are why we innovate, and people power our innovations. We are people-led and tech-empowered. We train our team in the skillsets of the future and bring in experts like you to help us grow. We have roles for those chasing their first opportunity as well as those looking for the opportunity that will define their career. Here, you can kickstart a great career in tech, gain new skills and experience for virtually every industry, or leverage your expertise to innovate at scale, impact millions and reimagine the future of retail.
Walmart’s culture is a competitive advantage, and it’s fostered by being together. Working together in person allows us to collaborate, align quickly and innovate with greater speed. ¬â€ We use our campuses to create purposeful connection rooted in deepening understanding and investing in the development of
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