Staff, Data Engineer

Company Description

Join Walmart and your work could help over 275 million global customers live better every week. Yes, we are the Fortune #1 company. But you’ll quickly find we’re a company who wants you to feel comfortable bringing your whole self to work. A career at Walmart is where the world’s most complex challenges meet a kinder way of life. Our mission spreads far beyond the walls of our stores. 

Job Description

• You will lead the work of other small groups of ten to twelve engineers, including offshore associates, for assigned Engineering projects by providing pertinent.
  documents, direction, and examples; identifying short- and long- term solutions and timeline; reviewing and approving proposed solutions.
• You will drive the execution of multiple business plans and projects by identifying customer and operational needs, developing, and communicating business. 
• Leads and participates in medium- to large-scale, complex, cross-functional projects by reviewing project requirements, translating requirements into
  technical solutions; gathering requested information (for example, design documents, product requirements, wire frames); writing and developing.
  code; conducting unit testing; communicating status and issues to team members and stakeholders; collaborating with project team and cross.
  functional teams; troubleshooting open issues and bug-fixes; enhancing design to prevent re-occurrences of defects; ensuring on-time delivery and
  hand-offs: interacting with project manager to provide input on project plan; and providing leadership to the project team.
  plans and priorities; removing barriers and obstacles that impact performance; providing resources; identifying performance standards; measuring.
  progress and adjusting performance; accordingly, developing contingency plans; and demonstrating adaptability and supporting continuous learning.
• Implementing new architectural patterns; and performing design and code reviews of changes.
• Promotes and supports company policies, procedures, mission, values, and standards of ethics and integrity by training and providing direction to
  others in their use and application; ensuring compliance with them; and utilizing and supporting the Open Door Policy.
• Ensures business needs are being met by evaluating the ongoing effectiveness of current plans, programs, and initiatives, consulting with business.
  partners, managers, co-workers, or other key stakeholders; soliciting, evaluating, and applying suggestions for improving efficiency and cost effectiveness.
  and participating in and supporting community outreach events.

Qualifications

What you'll bring:

• 7-10 years of hands-on experience with Hadoop, Hive, Apache Spark .
• Experience in building highly scalable Big Data solutions and ETL ecosystems.
• Proven track record coding with at least one programming language e.g., Scala (preferred), Python
• Expert in cloud computing platforms and offerings from Google Cloud Platform (GCP) (preferred), Microsoft Azure.
• Evangelize an extremely high standard of code quality, system reliability, and performance  
• Experience with the integration tools like Automic, Airflow 
• Skilled in data modeling & data migration protocols  
• Working knowledge of CI/CD pipelines.
• Ability to write designs for data architecture of data warehouse or data lake solutions or end to end pipelines 
• Expert in data architecture principles, distributed computing 
• Intake prioritization, cost/benefit analysis, decision making of what to pursue across a wide base of users/stakeholders and across products, databases and services, 
• Should be able to communicate complex technical solutions and ideas to both technical and non-technical team members. 
• Ability to lead our technical relationship with partners and mentor senior software developers in multiple initiatives.

Nice to have

• Knowledge of Databricks, Snowflake is an added advantage.
• Experience with ThoughtSpot, Druid, Big Query and ClickHouse is added advantage. 
• Hands on knowledge in NoSQL like Cosmos DB along with RDBMS like MySQL, Postgres is plus.
• Hands on working experience in any messaging platform like Kafka is preferred.
• Increase the efficiency of the team by setting right Processes of Software Development, Requirement Intake, Effort Estimation
• Demonstrating creative, critical thinking & troubleshooting skills.

Additional Information

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 with primary in office presence coupled with an optimal mix of virtual presence. We use our campuses to collaborate and be together in person, as business needs require and for development and networking opportunities. This approach helps us make quicker decisions, remove location barriers across our global team, be more flexible in our personal lives.