Director, Software Engineering

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 Team:

Last Mile Delivery which is Walmart’s own platform Spark Program and enables deliveries from Walmart to customer door step with the help of Spark Drivers. It provides a one-stop solution to help Walmart expand its last mile delivery network by connecting Walmart Stores to most of the US population.

Last Mile has been made available as a Service for external clients (outside of Walmart Network). This team owns and supports a complex system which is responsible for delivering more than million orders and providing best of experience to our customer, drivers and operations. It’s built upon the latest tech stack, cloud platform and powers multiple capabilities and experiences using ML models.

If you are looking for high impact, high growth opportunity with interesting engineering challenges in a fast-paced environment, this is the role for you. This role requires innovative and strong technical acumen.

In this role, you will lead a team responsible to build multi-tenant systems that that integrate with a large number of applications and become a strong stakeholder for planning and vision with product / business counterparts.

You'll sweep off our feet by ...

-       being a leader who can guide teams to solve complex problems

-       driving innovation and being a out of the box thinker bringing new ideas to table

-       showing ability to manage ambiguity and bring clarity methodically

-       being a leader who has built and mentored and sustained high performance teams

-       demonstrating deep passion and curiosity for technology

-       being a leader who develops strategy by analysing competitive trends and patterns; identifying opportunity areas in current systems, evaluating short-term and long-term implications; and getting alignment with stakeholders.

What you'll do:

 - building and leading highly productive teams by mentoring managers and team members

 - driving execution of multiple large cross pillar initiatives working with stakeholders

 - building end-to-end systems that integrate distributed systems, combinatorial-optimisation systems and Machine-Learning systems

 - continuously improving business KPI working with business and product 

 - making data driven decisions, tracking and showing continuous improvement in engineering-excellence and operational-excellence metrics 

 - define and execute associate training and development plan, career plan, goal settings, regular performance reviews and feedback, development opportunities, performance appraisal and promotions.

What you'll bring:

⁃      Bachelor's or master's degree in Computer Science or equivalent

⁃      15+ years of experience mentoring and leading teams. At least 5 years of experience as a second- level managers handling multiple teams of engineers.

⁃      Proven experience in building high-performance teams and scalable best-practices in SaaS/Online/Enterprise Product engineering organization

⁃      Excellent logical and problem-solving skills.

⁃      Excellent verbal and written communication with stakeholders in a matrix environment. Building partnerships is a critical expectation for this role.

⁃      Experience in Distributed Systems Design for fault tolerance and high availability

⁃      Experience in multi-threading for speeding up computations on multi-core processors

⁃      Building for “as a service” model where components are multi-tenant, customizable and can be leveraged across Walmart’s business verticals, and potentially with a partner ecosystem

⁃      Experience in working with big data technologies such as Spark/Storm/Hadoop/Data Lake Architectures is a big plus.

⁃      Experience with CI/CD processes and design for high scale, availability, testability and extensibility.

Technical Skills

⁃      Languages - Java/J2EE, Spring boot

⁃      Hands on experience in Micro Services Architecture and Event Driven Architectures

⁃      Cloud - Azure, GCP

⁃      Engineering & Operational Excellence – CI/CD pipelines, Telemetry, DevOps automation of infra/app/services deployment & tear down, Performance monitoring of throughput & latency, scale and stability of services, Rigor in change management (code/config/infra) to improve change success rate

⁃      Messaging Queues - Kafka, RabbitMQ, ApacheMQ

⁃      Scripting - Unix, Shell and python

⁃      Database - Cassandra, MySQL/AzureSQL, Elastic Search

Mandatory Skills

People Management, Distributed Systems, Cloud, Open Source, Architecture

Years Of Experience

15 – 20 Years

Education/Qualification

BE

Minimum Qualifications...

Outlined below are the required minimum qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no minimum qualifications.

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.



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.

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...

4,5,6, 7 Floor, Building 10, Sez, Cessna Business Park, Kadubeesanahalli Village, Varthur Hobli , India