Walmart is looking to solve technical challenges within its Enterprise Inventory, Order Management Systems, Event-Driven Fulfillment, Order Optimization, GeoDemand, Placements, and Smart Forecasting domains by migrating from legacy systems to next-gen platforms and ensuring scalability, reliability, and performance.
Requirements
- 15+ years of software engineering experience, with extensive experience architecting scalable and mission critical solutions
- Strong hands-on expertise in: Java required; Mainframe experience a plus.
- Kafka, message queues, event-driven architecture
- Cloud platforms: Azure or GCP
- Cosmos DB (or similar) and Cassandra
- CI/CD, observability, containerization (Docker), orchestration (Kubernetes)
- Data engineering background, including ETL Spark, and workflow tools such as Airflow
Responsibilities
- Delivering on ambitious business demands while ensuring scalability, reliability, and performance.
- Guiding the migration from legacy systems to next-gen platforms, aligning with Global Tech standards.
- Providing deep technical leadership, mentoring senior engineers and architects, and fostering a culture of excellence.
- Understanding the end-to-end business and data flows, enabling informed decision-making and simplification of complex systems.
- Partnering across peer domains to shape and execute a cohesive technical strategy that drives innovation and operational efficiency.
Other
- Experience influencing and aligning with senior engineering and business leaders spanning domain boundaries
- Ability to navigate complex technical landscape while maintaining clarity and decisiveness
- Deep understanding of system design, API governance, and security
- Ability to influence technical vision, platform standards, and engineering best practices
- Hybrid work model (primarily in office coupled with virtual when not onsite)
