Introduction

It’s exciting time to join our Walmart journey. We are seeking a Sr Manager of Software Engineer  I to support the Data Strategy and Insights Organization.  

At Walmart, we help people save money, so they can live better. This mission serves as the foundation for every decision we make and drives us to create the future of retail. We can’t do that without the best talent Ã¢â‚¬â€œ talent that is innovative, curious, and driven to create exceptional experiences for our customers.   

  Do you have boundless energy and passion for engineering data used to solve dynamic problems that will shape the future of retail? With the sheer scale of Walmart’s environment comes the biggest of big data sets. As a Walmart Data Engineer, you will dig into our mammoth scale of data to help unleash the power of retail data science by imagining, developing, and maintaining data pipelines that our Data Scientists and Analysts can rely on.  You will be responsible for contributing to an orchestration layer of complex data transformations, refining raw data from source into targeted, valuable data assets for consumption in a governed way. You will partner with Data Scientists, Analysts, other engineers and business stakeholders to solve complex and exciting challenges so that we can build out capabilities that evolve the retail business model while making a positive impact on our customers’ lives.    

About the Data Strategy and Insights Organization: 

Our organization focuses on managing and delivering world-class data assets, including creating and maintaining data standards, driving policy compliance, creating partnerships, and developing pipelines and self-service tools. We empower our business to leverage data to fuel growth, driving revenue in our core and building new business model opportunities.  

  About Data Ventures:  

Data Ventures exists to unlock the full value of Walmart’s data by developing and productizing B2B data initiatives that empower merchants and suppliers to make better, faster decisions for the business.  As part of this transformation, we’re seeking entrepreneurial individuals to help drive data productization from concept to deployment. 

What you’ll do…

As a Sr Manager of Software Engineer I

• Hands on leader with proficient in Software Application Development and lifecycle.
• Manage software development engineers and lead engineering projects
• In-depth knowledge of technologies such as:
  • Docker
  • Kubernetes
  • Nodejs (Apollo server) - Backend
  • ReactJS (UI with Apollo client & Material UI)
  • Graph-QL API's
  • Azure & GCP Cloud Services
  • Java Spring Boot services
  • Jest / Storybook framework for writing test cases
  • Jenkins Pipelines
  • GitHub
  • Unix Scripting
  • Event driven design
  • Messaging Technologies
  • SonarQube 
• Engage in technical design and discussions and help drive technical architecture
• Ensure the happiness and productivity of the team’s software engineers
• Help mitigate risk (technical, product, personnel)
• Provide guidance and influence in other areas of the Engineering (e.g. DevOps and Test Engineering)
• Communicate the vision of our product to external entities
• Participate in relevant Engineering and Technical Operations workgroups and on-call rotations to assure service availability
• Foster, enable and promote innovation
• Define team metrics and meet productivity goals of the organization
• Mentor software engineers through their career growth
• You’re experienced leading teams and implementing technology globally
• Comfortable influencing others, leading team, managing stakeholders, getting buy-in from leadership, and communicating clearly
• You’re stimulated by challenges and are ready to engage at Fortune 1 scale
• Having good people management skills and a client service mentality is a must.  Essentially, this is a mix between being a technical manager and a relationship manager.
• You will help give architecture guidance as well. 
• Having several years of management experience of a tech team is helpful, but any management experience will do, as well as a solid knowledge base of process.
• Be able to build relationships with other areas of the business (Product, UX, Ops) and partner with them to build technical solutions for our Associates and Members.
• Ensure Software Quality Engineering by keeping the engineers up to date on best practices, automated code testing, alerts, reporting, and taking a proactive approach to production running app support.
• Work closely with the Program and Product Manager to ensure engineering work is pointed and prioritized correctly.

What you’ll bring…

Must Have:

• Strong experience managing and leading a software development
• 2+ years of managing people directly
• 4+ years of professional experience with Node.js development.
• Experience leading a team of engineers through various projects at a given time.
• Expert with Java/J2EE stack
• Strong interpersonal skills that allow you to effectively solve problems and work through production issues.
• Experience building and retaining high performance teams and leading global software engineering product teams.
• Proven ability to earn respect, trust and influence from people you work with and to mentor top technical talent.
• Technical leadership experience in design, implementation, and support of core database services that are highly reliable, flexible, and scalable.

Benefits & Perks

Beyond competitive pay, you can receive incentive awards for your performance. Other great perks include 401(k) match, stock purchase plan, paid maternity and parental leave, PTO, multiple health plans, and much more.

Who We Are

What started small, with a single discount store and the simple idea of selling more for less, has grown over the last 50 years into the largest retailer in the world. Each week, over 260 million customers and members visit our 11,695 stores under 59 banners in 28 countries and e-commerce websites in 11 countries. With fiscal year 2017 revenue of $485.9 billion, Walmart employs approximately 2.3 million associates worldwide. Walmart continues to be a leader in sustainability, corporate philanthropy and employment opportunity. It's all part of our unwavering commitment to creating opportunities and bringing value to customers and communities around the world.

Equal Opportunity Employer 
Walmart, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer – By Choice. We believe we are best equipped to help our associates, customers, and the communities we serve live better when we really know them. That means understanding, respecting, and valuing diversity- unique styles, experiences, identities, ideas and opinions – while being inclusive of all people.

About 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 world’s largest retailer, delivering innovations that improve how our customers shop and empower our 2.2 million associates. To others, innovation looks like an app, service or some code, but Walmart has always been about people. People are why we innovate, and people power our innovations. Being human-led is our true disruption. 

We’re virtual 

Working virtually this year has helped us make quicker decisions, remove location barriers across our global team, be more flexible in our personal lives and spend less time commuting.  Today, we are reimagining the tech workplace of the future by making a permanent transition to virtual work for most of our team. Of course, being together in person is an important part of our culture and shared success. We’ll collaborate in person at a regular cadence and with purpose. 

Minimum Qualifications...

Outlined below are the required minimum qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no minimum qualifications.

As permitted by applicable law, provide evidence of full vaccination as defined by CDC guidelines OR secure approval of medical or religious accommodation for the vaccination mandate., Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and 4 years’ experience in software engineering or related field OR 6 years’ experience in software

engineering or related field.

1 year’s supervisory experience.

Preferred Qualifications...

Outlined below are the optional preferred qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no preferred qualifications.

Master’s degree in Computer Science or related field and 3 years' experience in software engineering

Primary Location...

603 MUNGER AVE STE 400, DALLAS, TX 75202, United States of America