Senior Manager, Software Engineering

Position Summary...

What you'll do...

Walmart's People.AI team is seeking an experienced Senior Manager to lead the GenAI Platform Engineering team. At People.AI, we use our large and unique datasets about our employees to model, augment, automate, and reimagine all aspects of their digital experience.  

This is a vital role on the team with significant growth prospect, reporting directly to the Director of GenAI Platform. You will be part of an Agile team dedicated to developing platform capabilities to support GenAI/AI/ML applications at scale. You’ll focus on the platform architectural design, develop and review model and application code, and ensure high availability and performance of our systems using existing and emerging cloud technologies. We are looking for someone who is eager to lead the development of cutting-edge GenAI platform alongside talented modelers and engineers, as well as a strong architect with a track record for designing APIs used in large-scale production environments who can create simple, reusable abstractions for performing complex machine learning tasks.

About Team:
The Enterprise People Technology team supports the successful deployment and adoption of new People technology across the enterprise. As a Fortune #1 company, our work impacts millions of associates globally. We strive to continuously improve people technology and products to help managers and associates so they can focus on what matters most - supporting our customers and members. 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.

What you'll do:

• Recruit, lead, and mentor a strong team.
• Shape the platform roadmap using an understanding of product requirements, GenAI technology stack, and software architecture.
• Dive deeply with members of your team to provide coaching that ensures their success, providing hands-on technical guidance and direction in critical high-impact areas as needed.
• Partner and collaborate closely with People.AI product and business leaders.
• Work cross-functionally with product, science, and peer engineering teams to prioritize efforts that will bring your team’s work to life. Identify new opportunities, develop prototypes, achieve buy-in from partners, and communicate staffing needs.
• Effectively communicate your team’s work to other senior leaders and the executive team on a regular basis.
• Leverage or build cloud-based architectures, technologies, and/or platforms to deliver optimized ML models at scale.
• Model the MLOps ways-of-working by leveraging CI/CD best practices, including test automation, automated deployments, model retraining, and monitoring to ensure successful deployment and continuous operation of ML systems and pipelines.
• Stay up to date with the latest state-of-the-art techniques in use and deployment of machine learning applications/models and foster a culture of learning within the organization.

What you'll bring:

• Python Guru that embraces Pythonic way of thinking. Python is the primary language with sprinkle of JavaScript. You will be responsible for code reviews and setting code quality standards for the team.
• Experience leading teams both technically and in a formal management capacity.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to understand and synthesize requirements across multiple do