Location: 

Bengaluru
About Global Tech
Imagine working in an environment where one line of code can make life easier for hundreds
of millions of people and put a smile on their face. That’s what we do at Walmart Global
Tech. We’re a team of 15,000+ software engineers, data scientists and service professionals
within Walmart, the world’s largest retailer, delivering innovations that improve how our
customers shop and empower our 2.2 million associates. To others, innovation looks like an
app, service or some code, but Walmart has always been about people. People are why we
innovate, and people power our innovations. Being human led sis our true disruption.
Our Team & Position Summary
International Technology: Focusing on customer, associate and business needs, this team
works with Walmart International, which includes more than 5,900 retail units, operating
outside the United States with 55 banners in 26 countries such as Africa, Argentina, Canada,
Central America, Chile, China, India, Japan, Mexico and United Kingdom to name a few.
 
The International Markets team contributes to key global eCommerce businesses including
ASDA & George (in the UK), Walmart Canada (in Canada), and Walmart Mexico, Sam’s
Club Mexico, Bodega Aurrera & Superama (in Mexico). We work on technologies that
intersect a wide variety of business models for grocery, general merchandise and the
warehouse format. Our focus is to build a continuous, seamless, omni-channel customer
experience across brick and digital channels, that is unique to Walmart and sets us apart
from our competition
eCommerce is a top priority and growth area for Walmart, all set to further accelerate with
growing internet penetration and smartphone adoption. Specifically, international markets
like ASDA (in the UK), Walmart Canada and Walmart Mexico provide a uniquely strategic
and time sensitive opportunity for Walmart eCommerce to gain a substantial lead over
competition. You can be a part of this high-growth, massive-scale, fast-paced environment,
building continuous, seamless, omni-channel customer experiences across physical stores,
eCommerce and mobile commerce, unique to Walmart.
 
As a Director of Engineering, you will be directly responsible to manage the International
Marketplace application platform teams at India Development Center
Position Responsibilities:
 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.

 
Position Requirements:

 Technical leadership in design, implementation, and support of core platform

products that are highly reliable, flexible, and scalable.
 Having good experience in the retail industry, referable building & managing large
scale eCommerce platforms/applications
 Having good experience in large scale cross-cutting platform product development
 In-depth Knowledge of Deployment pipeline, containers, Kubernetes, OpenStack,
and deployment patterns are desirable.
 Having good experience in Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment tools
and products. Design and architecture understanding of how to build these products
are added advantage.
 Extremely strong technical background with the capability of having design
conversations with the engineering team if required and earn the respect and ability
to mentor top individual technical talent.
 Have good experience in performance instrumentation, tuning, and optimization of
large-scale products
 Have good knowledge in design patterns while building cloud-native products.
 Experience in the 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.
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Additional Qualifications:

 Leadership Behavior like Bias for Customer, Growth Mindset, Collaboration - Bring
others along and Driving Results & Value should be well exhibited
 Good experience of working with globally distributed teams in a collaborative and
productive manner.
 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)
 Extremely strong technical background with the capability of having design
conversations with the engineering team if required and earn the respect and ability
to mentor top individual technical talent.
 Have good experience in performance instrumentation, tuning, and optimization of
large-scale products
 Have good knowledge in design patterns while building cloud-native products
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Walmart Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer – By Choice.

We believe we are best equipped to help our associates, customers and the communities
we serve live better when we really know them. That means understanding, respecting and
valuing diversity- unique styles, experiences, identities, ideas and opinions – while being
inclusive of all people