Senior Manager, Software Engineering

Position Summary...

Join the Talent Management Engineering Team as a Senior Manager, Software Engineering

We’re seeking a Senior Manager, Software Engineering to help accelerate the delivery of impactful, associate-facing applications and experiences within the People Tech pillar of EBS.

In this role, you’ll oversee the full software development lifecycle—from ideation and design to execution, delivery, and continuous iteration. As an engineering leader, you’ll set direction for the team, establish and uphold high standards, and drive operational and technical excellence across multiple initiatives.

You will guide the design and development of complex, scalable systems with a focus on reusability, maintainability, and long-term health. You’ll work closely with product, UX, and business stakeholders to align on vision, outcomes, and execution strategies, ensuring the solutions your teams deliver are extensible and impactful across the enterprise.

You’ll also play a key role in exploring and integrating AI and Generative AI capabilities to enhance user experiences, improve personalization, and streamline engineering workflows. Whether surfacing intelligent insights or embedding GenAI into core processes, you’ll shape how emerging technologies elevate our products.

Equally important, you’ll build and grow a collaborative and high-performing team culture. This includes mentoring senior and junior engineers, supporting career development, and promoting shared learning across development, debugging, and operational best practices.

If you’re passionate about leading engineering teams to deliver scalable solutions, applying the latest in AI to amplify business value, and fostering a culture of growth and innovation, we’d love to connect.

This role is NOT remote. This role is based out of Bentonville, AR. Relocation is mandatory if selected for this role.

What you'll do...

· Build, develop and guide a team of high-performing talent.

· Participate in technical design & reviews, PoCs.

· Be accountable for the engineering practices in the team like technical design, CI-CD, code quality, planning & delivering features

· Work with business stakeholders, architects, UX designers, product & program managers

· Work with global teams to deliver industry leading capabilities

· Able to identify & convey risks & issues to the leadership and help drive mitigate them.

· Raise the bar for the team on technology with predictable & consistent deliveries

· Good knowledge of Agile practices, Devops

· Partner with infrastructure teams

What you'll bring:

· Bachelor's or master's degree in Computer Science or equivalent

· 5-7 years of experience mentoring and leading teams

· Proven experience in building high-performance teams and scalable best-practices in SaaS/Online/Enterprise Product engineering organization

· Excellent logical and problem-solving skills.

· Experience in Distributed Systems Design for fault tolerance and high availability

· Experience in event based scalable async architecture

· Experience in Multi-threading for speeding up computations on multi-core processors

· Building for “as a service” model where components are multi-tenant, customizable and can be leveraged across Walmart’s business verticals

· Must have experience in cloud-native distributed application patterns and tools, micro-services architectures and web application frameworks (React, Java, Spring Boot, EDI, Kafka, NoSQL DB’s), application migrations to any cloud platform.

· Experience with CI/CD processes and design for high scale, availability, testability and extensibility.

· Excellent verbal and written communication

 

Technical Skills:

· Languages - Java/J2EE, Spring boot & Rest APIs

· Micro Services Architecture, Event Driven Architectures

· UI - JavaScript, ES6, HTML5/CSS3, Typescript, React

· Cloud - Azure, GCP

· Messaging Queues - Kafka, RabbitMQ

· Logging and Monitoring- Sp