Director Software Engineering
Walmart
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Position Summary... Provides overall direction by analyzing business objectives and customer needs; developing, communicating, building support for, and implementing business strategies, plans, and practices; analyzing costs and forecasts and incorporating them into business plans; determining and supporting resource requirements; evaluating operational processes; measuring outcomes to ensure desired results; identifying and capitalizing on improvement opportunities; promoting a customer environment; and demonstrating adaptability and sponsoring continuous learning. Develops and implements strategies to attract and maintain a highly skilled and engaged workforce by diagnosing capability gaps; recruiting, selecting, and developing talent; supporting mentorship, workforce development, and succession planning; and leveraging the capabilities of new and existing talent. Cultivates an environment where associates respect and adhere to company standards of integrity and ethics by integrating these values into all programs and practices; developing consequences for violations or non-compliance; and supporting the Open Door Policy. Develops and leverages internal and external partnerships and networks to maximize the achievement of business goals by sponsoring and leading key community outreach and involvement initiatives; engaging key stakeholders in the development, execution, and evaluation of appropriate business plans and initiatives; and supporting associate efforts in these areas. What you'll do... About Sams Club Team As of 2021, Sam's Club operates around 599 stores in the United States, Mexico, China and Puerto Rico. Sam's Club is a retail giant that operates a chain of membership-only warehouse clubs. The company offers a wide range of products, including electronics, furniture, groceries, and more, at discounted prices. Sam's Club has made significant investments in technology to enhance its supply chain, digital pharmacy, merchandising, and membership offerings. We help people around the world save money and live better -- anytime and anywhere -- in retail stores, online and through their mobile devices. Each week more than 260+ million customers and members visit our 11600+ stores under 46 banners in 24 countries and e-commerce websites in 11 countries. With last fiscal year revenues of approximately $572 billion and 2.3 million employees worldwide, Walmart is simply the largest retail business in the world. And we also happen to be number one in Fortune 500 list.Sam’s club is a membership-based retail warehouse club owned and operated by Walmart. With 597 physical clubs across different geographic region in US, Sam’s Club chain serves more than 50 million US members and is rated among the top retailers in US. Supply chain: Sam’s Tech has implemented advanced logistics systems that allow it to move products quickly and efficiently from its warehouses to its retail locations. This has helped the company to reduce costs, improve inventory management, and improve the customer experience. Additionally, Sam's Club has also implemented automated systems to manage its distribution centers, which has led to increased efficiency and reduced labor costs. Position Responsibilities: What you will do Define engineering practices, product development patterns and drive products development to scale to Walmart requirements. Excellent understanding on how to build large scale product components in API Gateway, Service Mesh, Proxies and Identity management solution Strong expertise in telemetry solution, adopting the right products and tools to instrument application for monitoring and troubleshooting Have insights in optimizing the DevOps pipeline and bring in best practices as the latest technology trend Good understanding of Openstack, Containers, Container management tools like Kubernetes and Docker swarm. In depth experience in driving high performance engineering team who has built large scale platform products either on premise or on cloud Good understanding of building products from ground up using best practices like event driven cloud native architecture. Bring in best practices for product development to keep team and processes lean, deliver more and optimize the waste. Strong fundamentals of agile methodologies and program practices in product development lifecycle Work with stakeholders to define the future roadmap of the product, adopt latest technology innovation wherever necessary Build, own and mentor the team of high-performance engineering team, product owners and engineering managers, provide thought leadership across each of these functions to bring best efficiencies and quality. Promote and support company policies, procedures, mission, values, and standards of ethics and integrity. What you will bring 20+ years of experience in platform products development. Technical leadership in design, implementation and support of core platform products that are highly reliable, flexible, and scalable. Retail industry experience along with building & managing large scale Supply Chain / Retail platforms/applications Experienced in Platform / Product development at scale. In depth Knowledge of Microservices, Deployment pipeline, containers, Kubernetes, openstack and deployment patterns are desirable. Must be aware of Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment tools and products. Design and architecture understanding of how to build these products are added advantage. Strong technical background with the capability of having design conversation with the engineering team if required and earn the respect and ability to mentor top individual technical talent. Experience in performance instrumentation, tuning and optimization of large-scale products Have the knowledge of design patterns that help building cloud native products. Experience in Supply Chain and eCommerce domain will be a huge positive. Good experience of working with globally distributed teams in a collaborative and productive manner. Provide & coach the team on non-functional requirements for world-class reliability and cost-efficiency throughout the product development lifecycle. Successful candidate will have experience managing and implementing Cloud architectures in a DevOps/Agile methodology. Drive a culture of automation, and self-service enablement for developers. Understand the product and project management space with Agile methodologies. Excellent interpersonal skills, good with people, ability to negotiate. Experience with hiring and building teams from ground up Keen eye for new technology trends and how they can be used to help grow the business Experience building products that are powered by massive data Good academic record and graduated (B.E/ B.Tech / M.E / M.Tech/ MBA)
