Position Summary...

What you'll do...

If you could spend 100% of your time painting the future of commerce on a canvas that will touch over one billion consumers, and had the strength of the #1 Fortune 500 Company behind you, what would it look like? 

By bringing together retail, online, mobile, and social with our 11,000+ stores and clubs around the world, Walmart is creating a seamless experience for customers and members to shop in the way that is most convenient for them—anytime and anywhere. When you combine our unmatched assets in retail with our commitment to building best-in-class commerce capabilities, we are positioned to serve customers in ways no one else can.

You will jump in and help design and architect systems that drive commerce around the world. You will solve complex technical challenges such as integrating multiple data systems via multiple protocols, implementing solutions that can provide real-time decisions for millions of our customers, and help migrating to public cloud. Your knowledge of databases, systems, API design, networking, security, and platforms will allow you to translate business requirements into live designs that will serve our customers around the world.  

You will use a lot of knowledge, negotiation with your partners, proof of concepts and some "magic”. You will need customer focus, obsession on great execution, and a data-driven approach to provide the best architectural designs.

What You will Do

• Design technical architecture solutions that span multiple commerce platform and include integration with multiple systems.
• Design the right interfaces and technologies to make solutions accessible by multiple teams.
• Focus on the end customer experience while making sure your designs are resilient.
• Provide technical leadership to the engineering teams
• Build partnerships with cross-discipline team members.
• Analyze current solution designs to optimize and provide design improvements to handle the growth of the business.
• Coordinate with the business teams to identify future needs and requirements
• Mentor teams to define design and development standards, engineering practices and incidents management.
• Leverage business and domain acumen to interpret and translate business requirements to architecture/technology plans.

Who You Are

• You are an architect with experience working in commerce and eCommerce products.
• You are customer focused and understand the architectural fundamentals for cloud-native solutions, preferably in Azure or GCP.
• You have a passion for large and complex platforms and how to optimize your customers’ experience.
• A technical mindset with great attention to detail.
• You understand how to use modern development methodologies.

Minimum Qualifications

• 10+ years experience in software development.
• 5+ years as a technical architect.
• Experience interacting with your business and product partners to gather the right requirements.
• Demonstrated experience in delivering software using Agile methodologies.
• Effective communication skills, both written and verbal

Preferred Qualifications
Master's degree or Ph.D. in Computer Science or related field.

• Expertise with cloud technologies such Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud Platform.
• Experience working with teams across multiple locations. Distributed office working experience with a US headquarters.
• Excellent technical abilities with strong business, organizational and analytical skill

About Walmart Global Tech
Imagine working in an environment where one line of code can make life easier for hundreds of millions of people. That’s what we do at Walmart Global Tech. We’re a team of software engineers, data scientists, cybersecurity expert's and service professionals within the world’s 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.

Flexible, hybrid work:
We use a hybrid way of working that is primarily in office coupled with virtual when not onsite. Our campuses serve as a hub to enhance collaboration, bring us together for purpose and deliver on business needs. This approach helps us make quicker decisions, remove location barriers across our global team and be more flexible in our personal lives.

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 diversity- 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 incentive 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 at https://bit.ly/3iOOb1J .

The annual salary range for this position is $192,000.00-$288,000.00

Additional compensation includes annual or quarterly performance incentives.

Additional compensation for certain positions may also include:

- Regional Pay Zone (RPZ) (based on location)

- Stock equity incentives

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 and6 years’ experience in software engineering or related area.
Option 2: 8 years’ experience in software engineering or related area.

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, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or related area and 4 years' experience in software engineering or related area

Primary Location...

640 W California Avenue, Sunnyvale, CA 94086-4828, United States of America