Walmart
2 days ago
Position Summary...
The Group Director, Software Engineering - Digital is a strategic senior technology leader who is responsible for shaping and leading the technology strategy, design & development for walmart.com - Discovery Experience. Discovery Experience includes Home Page, Deals, Search & Browse, Item Page, Subscriptions & CMS.In this role, you will lead a team of onshore and offshore engineering team, providing strong technical direction and operational excellence to ensure modern, scalable technology solutions. You will be responsible for attracting, developing, and growing top engineering talent while fostering a culture of innovation and high performance.
As a highly visible leader, you will work closely with executives and cross-functional stakeholders, including the SVP of Product, SVP of Technology, Digital Strategy teams, Product teams, UX teams, and external vendors. Your ability to build trust, drive collaboration, and execute at a large enterprise level will be critical to success in this role.
If you have a proven track record of leading large-scale technology teams, driving impactful digital transformation, and delivering world-class customer experiences, we invite you to join us in shaping the future of Walmart.com Discovery Organization.
What youll do...
About Team:
Our team creates reusable technologies to help with customer acquisition, onboarding, and empowering merchants, while ensuring a seamless experience for both of these stakeholders. We also optimize tariffs and assortment in accordance with Walmarts Everyday Low Cost philosophy. We not only create affordability, but we also deliver customized experiences for customers across all channels - in-store, mobile app, and websites.
What youll do:
Lead the digital technology strategy while collaborating closely with senior leadership on prioritization and future roadmap
Drive technical direction and delivery execution, ensuring engineering excellence across teams in coding practices, continuous integration, automated testing, etc.
Optimize the use of cloud services and other resources to maximize ROI.
Create and maintain an environment that drives innovation and challenges the team to explore and experiment with new ideas and technologies to grow the business
Develop team members who are business-savvy tech leaders and engineers
Foster an environment of acceptance and respect that strengthens relationships.
What youll bring:
Technology Leadership: Lead and inspire a high-performing engineering team responsible for building and maintaining the digital commerce platforms (website and mobile apps) using modern, cloud native technologies.
Strategic Partnership: Partner with the Digital Product and UX teams to deliver digital experiences that drive customer engagement & Sales.
Agile Product Delivery: Champion an agile product operating model, working with product management and scrum teams to continuously deliver customer-centric features and enhancements.
Platform Management: Ensure the e-commerce platforms operate with high availability, scalability, and security, leveraging cloud-native solutions and infrastructure.
Innovation & Optimization: Stay ahead of industry trends and emerging technologies to continuously improve the customer experience, increase site performance, and optimize for mobile-experiences.
Cross-functional Collaboration: Ability to influence and collaborate with stakeholders across business, marketing, operations, and customer service to ensure alignment on goals, timelines, and delivery expectations. Can communicate complex messages and highly technical information to all levels.
Technical Governance: Uphold best practices for software development, quality assurance, and operational excellence to ensure technology investments are maximized and deliver business value.
Team Leadership: Attract and retain talent; drive performance through people engagement; cultivating an environment which supports growth, continual feedback, and inclusion.
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 experts 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.
Walmart’s culture is a competitive advantage, and it’s fostered by being together. Working together in person allows us to collaborate, align quickly and innovate with greater speed. We use our campuses to create purposeful connection rooted in deepening understanding and investing in the development of our associates.
Our hubs: Walmart is a global company with offices across the United States and around the world. Our global headquarters is in Bentonville, Arkansas, with primary hubs in the San Francisco Bay area and New York/New Jersey.
Benefits:
Benefits: Beyond our great compensation package, you can receive incentive awards for your performance. Other great perks include 401(k) match, stock purchase plan, paid maternity and parental leave, PTO, multiple health plans, and much more.
Equal Opportunity Employer:
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.
The above information has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed in the role. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all responsibilities and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job. The full Job Description can be made available as part of the hiring process.
You will also receive PTO and/or PPTO that can be used for vacation, sick leave, holidays, or other purposes. The amount you receive depends on your job classification and length of employment. It will meet or exceed the requirements of paid sick leave laws, where applicable.
For information about PTO, see https://one.walmart.com/notices.
Live Better U is a Walmart-paid education benefit program for full-time and part-time associates in Walmart and Sams Club facilities. Programs range from high school completion to bachelors degrees, including English Language Learning and short-form certificates. Tuition, books, and fees are completely paid for by Walmart.
Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to a specific plan or program terms.
For information about benefits and eligibility, see One.Walmart.
Sunnyvale, California US-08479:The annual salary range for this position is $254,000.00-$481,000.00
Bentonville, Arkansas US-10735:The annual salary range for this position is $195,000.00-$370,000.00
Additional compensation includes annual or quarterly performance bonuses.
Additional compensation for certain positions may also include:
- Stock
Minimum Qualifications...
Outlined below are the required minimum qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no minimum qualifications.
Option 1: Bachelors degree in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or related area and8 years’ experience in software engineering or related area.
Option 2: 10 years’ experience in software engineering or related area.
5 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 6 years experience in software engineering or related area, We value candidates with a background in creating inclusive digital experiences, demonstrating knowledge in implementing Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 AA standards, assistive technologies, and integrating digital accessibility seamlessly. The ideal candidate would have knowledge of accessibility best practices and join us as we continue to create accessible products and services following Walmart’s accessibility standards and guidelines for supporting an inclusive culture.