Associate Fellow I, Engineer

Walmart Global Tech; Bellevue (WA); On-site; USD 192,000 - 384,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Stock purchase plan

PTO

Live Better U education benefits

Job summary

Walmart Global Tech is seeking an Associate Fellow I to lead architectural designs and provide advisory across enterprise domains. This role drives growth through technical leadership, deep system knowledge, and mentoring a broad engineering community.

You will collaborate with engineering teams to improve designs, reduce complexity, and adopt best practices. The role focuses on scalable, robust production systems and cross-functional partnership.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, or related field required.
• 18+ years of technology/engineering focus in large-scale and distributed environments OR 20 years total experience.
• Experience leading multi-domain architectural discussions and mentoring engineers.

Responsibilities

• Lead and inspire high-performing engineering teams to build reliable, secure, and scalable platform products and frameworks.
• Drive a results-oriented culture with focus on engineering excellence and scalable delivery.
• Develop trusted partnerships with developers, product and architecture leaders to optimize platform delivery.
• Lead complex technical discussions across multiple personas including engineering, architecture, product, and business partners.
• Mentor and build a vibrant engineering community, providing advisory on complex projects.

Skills

Distributed systems

Microservices

Architectural design

Mentorship

Open stack

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/CE/IS/Software Engineering

Tools

Python

Spark

Scala

Job description

Position Summary...

What you'll do...The Associate Fellow I is a highly technical, hands-on role within the Walmart Global Tech team, responsible for supporting architectural designs and advisory across multiple enterprise business domain areas. The role uniquely drives disruptive growth across key priorities by leveraging differentiated technical prowess and leading the overall tech strategy and architecture across a business area. The right candidate would be required to delve deep into specific applications and services, work on higher-level multi-domain system designs that transcend functional boundaries, and act as a central resource. Additionally, they will be responsible for building systems, driving holistic outcomes, and curating, mentoring, and training a vibrant engineering micro-community within the team. In this role on the Global Technology Platforms team, you will provide direct support and engagement to engineering teams, improve designs, reduce complexity, and contribute to adoption of better practices and strengthened expertise. This role contributes towards larger systemic decoupling, and better shared standards. You will work to elevate the entire engineering organization and improve the overall quality, stability, and availability of our production systems.

Some key responsibilities include:

• Lead and inspire high-performing engineering teams to build and scale highly reliable, secure, and performant platform / products and frameworks.
• Drive a results-oriented culture with a strong focus on engineering excellence, execution and propagate build for scale mindset.
• Develop trusted partnerships with developers, business partners, product, and architecture leaders to drive optimized platform / product delivery.
• Lead complex technical and strategic discussions that involve multiple personas including engineering, architect, product, associate, and other stakeholders.
• Assess and leverage technology when appropriate from Global solutions existing in Walmart ecosystem to build / leverage scalable and innovative solutions.
• Build, mentor, and teach a community of engineers, and act as a central resource to provide advisory on complex projects and issues.
• Possess a high sense of urgency to solve problems and executing them with ownership.

What you'll bring:

• Engineering experience with large scale product development in open stack and microservices delivery environment.
• Familiar with new technology trends.
• A technical expert with in-depth knowledge in building distributed systems and products using hybrid cloud technology handling massive amounts of data.Should have built a complex microservices based platform or product.
• Strong knowledge of the following:
• Packaged software releases
• Open-stack technology capabilities (e.g. Python, Spark, Skala)
• Strong data integration capability (e.g. data engineering)
• Experienceor proven ability to drive technical vision and provide technical mentorship to all levels of engineering talent. Must have established credibility as an advisor on complex technical issues and projects.
• Experience of working with globally distributed teams.

Preferred experiences and exposures:

• Agile methodologies.
• Performance instrumentation, tuning, and optimization of large-scale products.
• Good knowledge in design patterns while building cloud-native products.
• Hybrid workplace domain experience will be a huge positive.

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.

Benefits:

Beyond our great compensation package, you can receive incentive awards for your performance. Other great perks include a host of best-in-class benefits maternity and parental leave, PTO, health benefits, and much more.

At Walmart, we offer competitive pay as well as performance-based bonus awards and other great benefits for a happier mind, body, and wallet. Health benefits include medical, vision and dental coverage. Financial benefits include 401(k), stock purchase and company-paid life insurance. Paid time off benefits include PTO (including sick leave), parental leave, family care leave, bereavement, jury duty, and voting. Other benefits include short-term and long-term disability, company discounts, Military Leave Pay, adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, and more. 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 Sam's Club facilities. Programs range from high school completion to bachelor's 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.

The annual salary range for this position is $192,000.00 - $384,000.00 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.

Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or related area and 18 years’ experience with technology/engineering focus working on large-scale and transaction intensive product/product groups in a globally distributed work environment OR 20 years’ experience computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, experience with technology/engineering focus working on large-scale and transaction intensive product/product groups in a globally distributed work environment.

Preferred Qualifications

Outlined below are the optional preferred qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no preferred qualifications.

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.

Primary Location...

10900 Ne 4th St, Bellevue, WA 98004, United States of America

Walmart and its subsidiaries are committed to maintaining a drug-free workplace and has a no tolerance policy regarding the use of illegal drugs and alcohol on the job. This policy applies to all employees and aims to create a safe and productive work environment.