Senior Manager, Software Engineering

Position Summary...

What you'll do...

What you'll do: 

• Manage a high performing team of 10-12 engineers who work across multiple technology stacks including OpenStack development or SAP 
• Drive design, development, implementation and documentation 
• Establish best engineering and operational excellence practices based on product, engineering and scrum metrics 
• Interact with Walmart engineering teams across geographies to leverage expertise and contribute to the tech community. 
• Engage with Product and Business stakeholders to drive the agenda, set the priorities and deliver scalable and resilient products. 
• Work closely with the Architects and cross functional teams and follow established practices for the delivery of solutions meeting QCD (Quality, Cost & Delivery) within the established architectural guidelines. 
• Work with senior leadership to chart out the future roadmap of the products 
• Participate in hiring, mentoring and building high performing agile teams. 
• Participating in organizational events like hackathons, demo days etc. and be the catalyst towards the success of those events 
• Interact closely for requirements with Business owners and technical teams both within USA and across the globe. 
• Foster a culture of ownership, technical excellence, collaboration, and innovation
• Ensure system reliability, availability, and performance across development and production environments.
• Drive incident management, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement in production operations.
• Implement effective observability strategies using monitoring, logging, and alerting tools.
• Collaboration & Cross-Functional Partnerships

What you'll bring: 

• Bachelor's/Master’s degree in Computer Science, engineering, or related field, with minimum 12+ years of experience in software development and at least 5+ years of experience in managing engineering teams. 
• Have prior experience in managing high performing agile technology teams.  
• Hands on experience building Java-Scala-Spark based backend systems is a must, and experience of working in cloud based solutions is desirable  
• A good understanding of CS Fundamentals, Microservices, Data Structures, Algorithms & Problem Solving  
• Should have exposed to CI/CD development environments/tools including, but not limited to, Git, Maven, Jenkins.  
• Strong in writing modular and testable code and test cases (unit, functional and integration) using frameworks like JUnit, Mockito, and Mock MVC 
• Should be experienced in microservices architecture. Possesses good understanding of distributed concepts, common design principles, design patterns and cloud native development concepts.  
• Hands-on experience in Spring boot, concurrency, garbage collection, RESTful services, data caching services and ORM tools.  
• Experience working with Relational Database and writing complex OLAP, OLTP and SQL queries.  
• Experience in working with NoSQL Databases like cosmos DB.  
• Experience in working with Caching technology like Redis, Mem cache or other related Systems.  
• Good knowledge in Pub sub system like Kafka.  
• Experience utilizing monitoring and alert tools like Prometheus, Splunk, and other related systems and excellent in debugging and troubleshooting issues.  
• Exposure to Containerization tools like Docker, Helm, Kubernetes.  
• Knowledge of public cloud platforms like Azure, GCP etc. will be an added advantage.
• Familiarity with disaster recovery principles and building resilient, fault-tolerant systems.

Nice to have are:

• Strong experience with RAG frameworks, vector search technologies and knowledge grounding techniques.
• Expertise in Python, ML frameworks (PyTorch, TensorFlow), and libraries like Hugging Face Transformers.
• Proficiency in distributed computing, cloud platforms (GCP, Azure), and scalable architectures.
• Experience with multi-modal models (text, image, video) and advanced optimization techniques (e.g., quantization, distillation).
• Experience with Generative AI models (e.g., GPT, Gemini) and their fine-tuning.
• Functional knowledge in Finance/Procurement area

At Walmart, we offer competitive pay as well as performance-based bonus awards and other great benefits for a happier mind, body