Group Director, Software Engineering, Data Services

Walmart; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 3,500,000 - 6,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Walmart Global Tech in Bengaluru seeks a senior Data Platform leader to own Big Data, Analytics Data Services, and Data Warehousing platforms. You will drive a scalable data lake and analytics stack across cloud and private environments, aligning engineering strategy with business outcomes.

The role emphasizes GenAI-enabled platforms, platform consolidation, and cost-efficient operations while mentoring large engineering teams and shaping multi-year roadmaps.

Qualifications

• Data lake experience with Spark, Hadoop, Iceberg, Hudi, Hive, Ranger deployed at scale.
• Operational Excellence at scale.
• Operate large scale services with high availability and low costs.
• Leadership and building strong engineering teams with big data experience.
• Ability to drive complex OKRs and programs.
• Ability to mentor and grow teams.

Responsibilities

• Build and operate the infrastructure services for exabyte scale data lake at Walmart on Google, Azure, and Private clouds.
• Leverage and optimize data warehousing services BigQuery, Trino and other data warehousing services for data engineering, data science and analytics teams.
• Oversees execution of large-scale projects: manages complex projects and programs, budgets and expenditures.
• Hiring: develops strategies to attract, retain, and develop highly skilled engineering teams with mentorship and succession planning.
• Performance Monitoring: establishes metrics for availability, cost, security.

Skills

Data lake experience

Leadership

Project management

OKRs & programs

Performance monitoring

Strategic planning

Mentoring & coaching

Tools

Spark

Hadoop

Iceberg

Hudi

Hive

Ranger

BigQuery

Trino

Job description

Position Summary.

The role will functionally own the Big Data (Spark, Dataproc), Analytics Data Services and Data Warehousing (Big Query) services.

What you'll do.

About Team:

This position is responsible for leading the Data Services team in Bangalore, functionally responsible for all Big Data, Analytics and Data Warehousing services for Walmart.

The Group Director, Software Engineering Data Services, is responsible for defining and scaling the technology platforms that power Walmarts data lake, warehouse, and analytics services. This leader sets the long-term engineering vision and platform strategy for Big Data processing at Walmart.

This role operates at the intersection of Generative AI, platform engineering, distributed systems, data platforms, and operational excellence. The Group Director creates clarity on technical priorities, architectural tradeoffs, and execution sequencing across a complex ecosystem while ensuring platform reliability, scalability, and extensibility.

The role drives differentiated platform capability through GenAI native products, engineering excellence, data integration, measurement infrastructure, and closed-loop system design. The role drives significant impact through platform consolidation and unification.

• Build and operate the infrastructure services for exabyte scale data lake at Walmart on Google, Azure, and Private clouds.


• Leverage and optimize data warehousing services Big Query, Trino and other data warehousing services - to enable data engineering, data science and business analytics teams.


• Oversees execution of large-scale projects: Manages complex projects and programs, develops solutions and contingency plans, and manages budgets and expenditures.


• Hiring: Develops and implements strategies to attract, retain, and develop a highly skilled and engaged engineering teams, supporting mentorship, development, and succession planning.


• Performance Monitoring: Establishes metrics and systems to track success of operational initiatives, including Availability (TTD, TTR), Cost(Infra cost and utilization) and Security(Authentication, Authorization and Auditing).


• Strategic Planning: Develops multi-year plans to improve performance, profit and loss, and customer experience; supports LRP planning and budgeting.


• Learning & Development: Drives initiatives to enhance learning, training effectiveness, and agent proficiency.


• Cultivates an environment of integrity: Integrates company standards of integrity and ethics into all programs and practices, supports the Open Door Policy, and ensures compliance.


• Stakeholder Engagement: Builds relationships with key stakeholders, supports community outreach, and drives execution of business solutions.


• Risk Management: Identifies and mitigates operational risks, ensuring business continuity and consistent quality.

What You'll Bring.

• Data lake experience with Spark, Hadoop, Iceberg, Hudi, Hive, Ranger and related service deployments at scale.


• Operational Excellence at scale.


• Operate large scale services with high availability and low costs.


• Leadership.


• Build strong engineering teams with big data experience.


• Project Management.


• Ability to drive complex OKRs and Programs.


• Performance and Cost Monitoring.


• Ability to drive cost optimizations with infrastructure and application performance tuning.


• Strategic Planning.


• Ability to drive long term Big Data strategies enabling the next generation of AI driven applications.


• Learning & Development.


• Ability to mentor and grow teams.

Leadership Expectations

• Respect the Individual: Builds high-performing teams, embraces diversity, fosters belonging, and empowers associates.


• Act with Integrity: Maintains high standards of ethics and compliance, models company values, and supports sustainability and community initiatives.


• Serve Customers and Members: Delivers business results with a customer-first mindset, leveraging data and analytics.


• Strive for Excellence: Drives continuous improvement, innovation, and adoption of new technology.

About Walmart Global Tech

Imagine working in an environment where one line of code can make life easier for hundreds of millions of people. Thats what we do at Walmart Global Tech. Were a team of software engineers, data scientists, cybersecurity experts and service professionals within the worlds 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 Work

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