Job description 

What you will do:

As a Staff Engineer for Walmart , you’ll have the opportunity to

Design, build, test and deploy cutting edge solutions at scale, impacting millions of customers worldwide drive value from data at Walmart Scale

Experience performing root cause analysis on data and processes to answer specific business questions and identify opportunities for improvement.

Interact with Walmart engineering teams across geographies to leverage expertise and contribute to the tech community.

Engage with Product Management and Business to drive the agenda, set your priorities and deliver awesome product features to keep platform ahead of market scenarios.

Closely interact with Engineers from within Walmart to identify right tools to deliver product features by performing research, POC/Pilot.

Engage with Product Management and Business to support and build data solutions and develop expertise w.r.t data thereby being known as the true data analyst.

You also get to collaborate with team members to develop best practices and client requirements for the software.

You will show your skills in analysing and testing programs/products before formal launch to ensure flawless performance.

Software security is of prime importance and by developing programs that monitor sharing of private information, you will be able to add tremendous credibility to your work.

You will also be required to seek ways to improve the software and its effectiveness.

You will be called upon to support the coaching and training of other team members to ensure all employees are confident in the use of software applications.

What you will bring:

10 -14 years of experience in design and development of highly-scalable applications and platform development. 

Strong computer science fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, design patterns

Develop high performance and scalable solutions that extract, transform, and load Spark/big data.

Hands on experience in building Micro-services, ability to build REST services using Java, Spring Boot.

Experience on Cloud Architecture, Micro-services Architecture and container technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, etc.)

Hands-on experience with event-based system processing such as Kafka

Experience in deploying solutions on any of these cloud platforms (Azure, GCP)

Work exposure on Agile methodologies and DevOps would be added advantage.

Well versed with Testing frameworks like JUnits

CI/CD Automation experience with tools like Git, Maven, Jenkins & Azure DevOps

Strong hands on development skills to prototype technical & innovative solutions

Ability to balance the long-term "big picture" and short-term implications of design decisions

Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills - including negotiation, facilitation, and consensus building skills; ability to influence and persuade, without direct control

Practitioner of Agile (Scrum) methodology.

Technical Skills:

Core Skills : JAVA,J2EE, Scripting (Shell/Python)
Database: SQL Database - Must have
Messaging and communication: Kafka/RESTful – Strong debugging knowledge
App monitoring tools: Splunk, Dynatrace/AppDynamics - Strong debugging knowledge
Cloud Technologies: MS Azure, GCP and Open Stack - Strong debugging knowledge