Senior Manager, Software Engineering - Planning

Position Summary...

What you'll do...

Walmart’s Enterprise Business Services (EBS) is a powerhouse of seven exceptional teams delivering world-class technology solutions and services making a profound impact at every level of Walmart. As a key part of Walmart Global Tech, our teams set the bar for operational excellence and leverage emerging technology to support millions of customers, associates, and stakeholders worldwide. Joining EBS means embarking on a journey of limitless growth, relentless innovation, and the chance to set new industry standards that shape the future of Walmart. 

Are you passionate about leading high-impact software projects in the fast-evolving world of finance planning? As a Senior Manager of Software Engineering at Walmart, you’ll drive the planning, design, and delivery of innovative planning solutions that reach millions of customers. This is a unique opportunity to shape the future of walmart at scale, working with cutting-edge technologies and a talented team.

About Team:
Our team is focused on developing a streamlined, dependable company that includes service operations and technology solutions for Finance, People, and Associate Digital Experience (ADE). We also provide a variety of services such as procurement, supplier portfolio management, merchandising master data, and analytics. From developing HR chatbots and virtual assistants to creating invoice solutions and facilitating legal changes, we help drive efficiency across Walmart globally.

What you'll do:

• Manage a high performing team of 10-15 engineers who work across multiple technology stacks including OpenStack development 
• 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-Python based backend systems and React front end 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
• 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 concurrency, garbage collection, RESTful services, data caching services and performance improvements tools  
• Experience in working