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Director, Software Engineering
Walmart
Sunnyvale, CA, United States
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Position Description
As a Director, Data Engineering you'll be responsible for Managing the Search, Big data and Analytics teams overseeing data quality, design, development and operations of large-scale data systems operating at petabytes scale. You will be focusing on real-time indexing pipelines, streaming analytics, distributed machine learning infrastructure and other tasks as part of Search BigData and Analytics team. You'll interact with the engineers, product managers and architects to provide scalable robust technical solutions.
Responsibilities include:
• Effectively handle multiple initiatives and be accountable for delivering multiple releases on schedule with highest quality standards
• Work closely with engineering and product leadership to prioritize initiatives to deliver the greatest value to the business
• Technical Leadership: Drive high-level architectural decisions and designs based on business priorities and requirements
• People Management: Coach and mentor first-level managers and tech leads
• Identify, implement, and communicate best practices for engineering
• Build a high-performance team
Minimum Qualifications
• 10 plus years experience as an established technical leader of software engineering teams
• Demonstrated experience leading positive change, empowering people, cultivating product technology visions and innovative solutions, and fostering effective engineering teams.
• Adept at articulating the product vision and drive the future roadmap with strong business acumen
• Ability to think and act strategically for all stakeholders
· 4+ years experience leading geographically distributed engineering teams of 15+ engineers, and coaching, mentoring first level managers and engineers to grow in their career. Strong problem-solving skills – both in the technology and leadership/influence areas.
· 10+ years of object-oriented programming experience in Java or Scala.
· 7+ years of experience in building of large scale data pipelines using big data technologies (i.e. Spark/Kafka/Cassandra/Hadoop/Hive/Presto/Airflow).
· 5+ years of experience in systems design, algorithms, and distributed systems.
· 4+ years of experience in scripting languages (e.g. Python), and SQL.
· Bachelor's or Master’s degree in Computer Science or related technical field.
Company Summary
The Walmart eCommerce team is rapidly innovating to evolve and define the future state of shopping. As the world’s largest retailer, we are on a mission to help people save money and live better. With the help of some of the brightest minds in technology, merchandising, marketing, supply chain, talent and more, we are reimagining the intersection of digital and physical shopping to help achieve that mission.