Senior Data Platform & AI Engineering Lead

Walmart Inc.; Bentonville (AR); On-site; USD 110,000 - 220,000; Full time

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Job summary

Walmart Global Data Foundation seeks a Senior Manager for Data Ventures Data Engineering to lead architecture, design, and hands-on development of scalable, cloud‑native, AI‑powered data platforms powering our data products.

The role blends technical leadership with people leadership, writing production‑quality code, and guiding engineers who own what they build while driving governance, reliability, and continuous improvement.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in CS or related field.
• 4 years of data engineering, database engineering, BI or analytics; 1 year supervisory experience.
• 5 years of software engineering or related field.

Responsibilities

• Lead design, development, and deployment of scalable data engineering solutions.
• Oversee data integration, transformation, and quality assurance processes.
• Implement data governance practices ensuring regulatory and ethical standards.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate requirements into data strategies.
• Mentor engineers and promote best practices in coding and data modeling.
• Evaluate emerging technologies to enhance data infrastructure and automation capabilities.

Skills

Data architecture leadership

Cloud data platforms

Mentoring engineers

Hands-on coding

Agile collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Master's degree in Computer Science

Tools

CI/CD

Observability

Job description

Walmart Global Data Foundation seeks a Senior Manager for Data Ventures Data Engineering to lead architecture, design, and hands-on development of scalable, cloud‑native, AI‑powered data platforms powering our data products.

The role blends technical leadership with people leadership, writing production‑quality code, and guiding engineers who own what they build while driving governance, reliability, and continuous improvement.