Staff, Software Engineer

Position Summary...

About Team: Retail Tech Platforms:

The Retail Tech Platforms organization has been created with a mission to centrally and horizontally support the enterprise retail and data platforms. Retail Tech Platforms includes: the transaction, catalog content, market intelligence and data management platforms. We utilize enterprise platform infrastructure to build and deploy scalable, leverage-able capabilities and systems across the enterprise.

What you'll do...

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• Leads the work of other small groups of six to ten engineers, including offshore associates, for assigned Engineering projects by providing pertinent documents, direction, and examples.
• Implementing new architectural patterns; and performing design and code reviews of changes.
• Leads the discovery phase of medium to large projects to come up with high level design by partnering with the product management, Web Operations, project management, business and user experience teams; obtaining cross-function approvals; driving proof-of-concept; and implementing prototypes to validate ideas.
• Develops Innovation strategies, processes, and best practices by leading internal technical teams, partnering with cross-functional teams across the business.
• Leads and participates in medium- to large-scale, complex, cross-functional projects by reviewing project requirements.
• Supports business objectives by collaborating with business partners to identify opportunities; addressing high-priority initiatives (for example, business strategy, technical feasibility, implementation alternatives); identifying short- and long-term solutions; and leading cross-functional partnership.
• Utilizes industry research to improve Wal-Mart's technology environment by analyzing industry best practice.

What you'll bring:

• Knowledge and development experience building AI Models

• Experience developing/integrating with any public LLM models is a must

• Java 11 and above

• Big Table/ BigQuery

• Kafka with Schema Registry

• ReactJS + Living Design

• REST API

• Spring Boot

• Kubernetes and Docker

• GCP and Azure cloud technology awareness

• AVRO Model - Nice to have

• Proficiency in ETL/ ELT and SQL (any flavor) 
• Working knowledge of any Cloud (GCP, Azure, AWS); GCP preferred for Big Data; Azure for application dev 
• Data pipeline/workflow management tools such as Airflow, Automic or similar. 
• Data flow programming: Scala, Spark, Python 
• Ability to script – bash, ksh 
• Expertise in Big Data Ecosystem with experience in Hadoop, Hive, Spark, Scala, Streaming (Kafka or similar message bus) 
• Experience with Data Goverance tools such as Collibra etc. 
• Knowledge of Software Engineering best practices with experience on implementing CI/CD, Log aggregation/Monitoring/alerting for production system 
• Knowledge/ expertise in data management functions such as data quality, metadata management, data lineage, data security etc. 
• Deploy and monitor products on Cloud platforms and optimize cloud spend/cost 
• Develop and implement best-in-class monitoring processes to enable data applications/ products meet SLAs 
• Interact with Walmart engineering teams across geographies to collaborate, leverage expertise and contribute to the tech community 
• Identify right open source tools to deliver product features by performing research, POC/ Pilot and/or interacting with various open source forums 
• Engage with Product Management and Business to drive the agenda, set your priorities and deliver awesome product features to keep platform ahead of market scenarios.

Please note: “Immigration sponsorship is not available in this role”.

About Walmart Global Tech
Imagine working in an environment where one line of code can make life easier for hundreds of millions of people and put a smile on their face. That’s what we do at Walmart Global Tech. We’re a team of 15,000+ software engineers, data scientists and service professionals within Walmart, the worl