Position Summary...
What you'll do...
We are seeking a talented and passionate Director of software engineering to join our team , you will serve as a visionary hands-on leader, actively coding, setting the technical direction and architectural standards across multiple domains specially for out AI/ML consumer health solutions. You will drive enterprise-wide technology strategy, influence senior stakeholders, and ensure that Walmart's solutions are innovative, scalable, secure to activate customers for healthier living and create value across multiple business segments. About the team: The Consumer Health and Data Solutions team consists of:
Incubation: includes Walmart Everyday Health Signals (EHS), a health insights product, and Walmart's Nutrition Hub, which supports personalized healthy eating powered by EHS
Digital Business Services: includes customer identity, digital engagement, and business analytics to support health and wellness lines of business
What You'll Do Set Technical Vision & Architecture
Define, communicate, and evolve a clear long-term technical vision aligned with business strategy and customer needs.
Architect and deliver cloud-native microservices, APIs, and data pipelines that power join, renewal, and churn-reduction experiences across digital and in-club channels.
Own system architecture decisions to ensure platforms meet performance, scalability, security, reliability, and compliance requirements.
Provide technical leadership for enterprise-scale, microservices-based and cloud-native platforms , ensuring extensibility and maintainability over time.
Partner with enterprise and domain architects to drive consistency, reuse, and architectural best practices across the organization.
Drive Engineering Excellence & Operational Maturity
Establish and champion engineering best practices, including CI/CD maturity, automation, testing strategies, and code quality standards to improve delivery speed and reliability.
Drive adoption of telemetry, monitoring, alerting, and observability aligned to domain and business requirements.
Continuously assess and improve system non-functional characteristics such as availability, reliability, performance efficiency, operability, and security .
Lead incident response and escalation , including technical impact analysis and root cause analysis (RCA), ensuring durable fixes and preventative measures.
Ensure platforms meet enterprise standards for security, data privacy, compliance, and resilience .
Leverage generative AI and emerging technologies to improve developer productivity, platform capabilities, and delivery velocity.
Lead, Develop, and Grow Talent
Build, lead, and mentor a strong leadership bench of Senior Engineering Managers and Architects .
Define and execute a long-term talent strategy , including hiring, onboarding, mentorship, workforce development, and succession planning.
Foster a culture of ownership, accountability, innovation, continuous learning, and psychological safety .
Coach leaders and teams to operate effectively at scale while maintaining high engineering standards.
Execution & Stakeholder Leadership
Own execution across multiple products and services, managing cross-team dependencies, risks, and trade-offs .
Ensure engineering roadmaps and milestones are aligned with product strategy, business priorities, and enterprise initiatives .
Partner effectively with stakeholders at all levels, providing clear communication, transparency, and data-driven updates.
Operate with rigor by defining and managing to KPIs, OKRs, and operational metrics , and presenting outcomes to senior leadership.
What You Bring
10+ years of experience in software architecture and engineering leadership, specializing in retail tech, large-scale AI, and health solutions. Proven ability to design, develop, and scale modular and extensible platforms for large user bases.
Proven experience leading large-scale engineering organizations and delivering complex, distributed systems in an enterprise environment.
Strong technical depth with the ability to make high-quality architectural decisions while balancing short-term delivery needs and long-term platform health .
A hands-on, ownership-driven leadership style with a strong bias for action, accountability, and results .
Expertise in modern architecture (microservices, event-driven, distributed computing) and cloud engineering (Azure, GCP, AWS). Deep proficiency in containerization (Kubernetes, Docker) and serverless architectures
Strong Experience designing and implementing self-service ML deployment platforms and API gateways for enterprise environments
Experience with high-scale transactional systems, and real-time data streaming.
Proficiency in database technologies and deep understanding their designs and limitations (SQL and NoSQL)
Proficiency in modern programming languages (Java, C++, Python, TypeScript).
Drives DevSecOps and CI/CD automation, focusing on observability and performance optimization. Strong grasp of CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitOps) and testing frameworks (Integration, Unit, etc.).
Ability to influence senior executives, engineering teams, and cross-functional stakeholders and passion for growing engineering talent
experienced in running large-scale data platforms. Skilled in writing clear design documentation and performing deep analysis and diagnosis of production issues
Experienced in cross-functional collaboration (Scrum, QA, Release, Program, TechOps). Possesses strong business acumen, integrating technical vision with strategic insights, and demonstrates exceptional communication skills.
Bonus points:
Familiar with machine learning and deep learning frameworks (TensorFlow, PyTorch). Experience with enterprise-scale production ML deployment.
Expertise in agentic AI systems, multi-agent frameworks, and LLM-based agents. Skilled in architecting and implementing these AI solutions for complex challenges.
Experience building intelligent observability and monitoring systems that use ML for anomaly detection
Experience developing self-healing infrastructure platforms that leverage AI to predict, prevent, and automatically resolve system issues before they impact customers or business operations across any Walmart system.
About Walmart Global Tech:
Imagine working in an environment where one line of code can make life easier for hundreds of millions of people. Thats what we do at Walmart Global Tech. Were a team of software engineers, data scientists, cybersecurity experts and service professionals within the worlds leading retailer who make an epic impact and are at the forefront of the next retail disruption. People are why we innovate, and people power our innovations. We are people-led and tech-empowered. We train our team in the skillsets of the future and bring in experts like you to help us grow. We have roles for those chasing their first opportunity as well as those looking for the opportunity that will define their career. Here, you can kickstart a great career in tech, gain new skills and experience for virtually every industry, or leverage your expertise to innovate at scale, impact millions and reimagine the future of retail.
Walmart's culture is a competitive advantage, and its fostered by being together. Working together in person allows us to collaborate, align quickly and innovate with greater speed. We use our campuses to create purposeful connection rooted in deepening understanding and investing in the development of our associates.
Our hubs: Walmart is a global company with offices across the United States and around the world. Our global headquarters is in Bentonville, Arkansas, with primary hubs in the San Francisco Bay area and New York/New Jersey.
Benefits:
Benefits: Beyond our great compensation package, 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.
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 unique styles, experiences, identities, ideas, and opinions - while being inclusive of all people.
The above information has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed in the role. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all responsibilities and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job. The full Job Description can be made available as part of the hiring process. At Walmart, we offer competitive pay as well as performance-based bonus awards and other great benefits for a happier mind, body, and wallet. Health benefits include medical, vision and dental coverage. Financial benefits include 401(k), stock purchase and company-paid life insurance. Paid time off benefits include PTO (including sick leave), parental leave, family care leave, bereavement, jury duty, and voting. Other benefits include short-term and long-term disability, company discounts, Military Leave Pay, adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, and more. You will also receive PTO and/or PPTO that can be used for vacation, sick leave, holidays, or other purposes. The amount you receive depends on your job classification and length of employment. It will meet or exceed the requirements of paid sick leave laws, where applicable. For information about PTO, see https://one.walmart.com/notices . Live Better U is a Walmart-paid education benefit program for full-time and part-time associates in Walmart and Sam's Club facilities. Programs range from high school completion to bachelor's degrees, including English Language Learning and short-form certificates. Tuition, books, and fees are completely paid for by Walmart.
Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to a specific plan or program terms.
For information about benefits and eligibility, see One.Walmart (https://one.walmart.com/) .
The annual salary range for this position is $169,000.00 - $338,000.00 Additional compensation includes annual or quarterly performance bonuses. Additional compensation for certain positions may also include :
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Minimum Qualifications...
Outlined below are the required minimum qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no minimum qualifications.
Option 1: Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or related area and 6 years' experience in software engineering or related area.
Option 2: 8 years' experience in software engineering or related area.
3 years' supervisory experience.
Preferred Qualifications...
Outlined below are the optional preferred qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no preferred qualifications.
Primary Location...
809 11th Ave, Sunnyvale, CA 94089-4731, United States of America
Walmart and its subsidiaries are committed to maintaining a drug-free workplace and has a no tolerance policy regarding the use of illegal drugs and alcohol on the job. This policy applies to all employees and aims to create a safe and productive work environment.
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, abilities, ideas and opinions- while being inclusive of all people.
