(USA) Principal, Software Engineer Java

Walmart; Arkansas; On-site; USD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as a Principal Architect, where you will lead the design of innovative enterprise systems that drive Walmart's eCommerce and store operations across multiple countries. This role offers a unique opportunity to tackle complex business challenges while collaborating with diverse engineering teams. You will be at the forefront of developing cutting-edge solutions that enhance the shopping experience for millions. If you are passionate about technology and want to make a significant impact in a dynamic environment, this position is perfect for you.

Benefits

Health insurance

Retirement plan

Employee discounts

Flexible work hours

Professional development opportunities

Qualifications

• 15+ years in design and development of scalable applications.
• Proficient in Java, Kotlin, and Scala with strong DevOps skills.
• Experience with Agile methodologies and cloud-native architectures.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and implementation of enterprise systems.
• Drive complex programs to achieve business goals.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams and manage dependencies.

Skills

Java

Kotlin

Scala

DevOps best practices

Agile methodology

Microservices

RESTful web services

Cloud Native Architecture

Data structures and algorithms

Analytical skills

Education

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science

Master's degree in Computer Science

Tools

JIRA

Confluence

CI/CD tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Position Summary

We are seeking a highly experienced and visionary Principal Architect to lead the design and implementation of our enterprise systems and technology solutions. Drives the execution of multiple business plans and projects by identifying customer and operational needs; developing and communicating business plans and priorities; removing barriers and obstacles that impact performance; providing resources; identifying performance standards; measuring progress and adjusting performance accordingly; developing contingency plans; and demonstrating adaptability and supporting continuous learning. Provides supervision and development opportunities for associates by selecting and training; mentoring; assigning duties; building a team-based work environment; establishing performance expectations and conducting regular performance evaluations; providing recognition and rewards; coaching for success and improvement; and ensuring diversity awareness. Promotes and supports company policies, procedures, mission, values, and standards of ethics and integrity by training and providing direction to others in their use and application; ensuring compliance with them; and utilizing and supporting the Open Door Policy. Ensures business needs are being met by evaluating the ongoing effectiveness of current plans, programs, and initiatives; consulting with business partners, managers, co-workers, or other key stakeholders; soliciting, evaluating, and applying suggestions for improving efficiency and cost-effectiveness; and participating in and supporting community outreach events.

About Team

The platforms you build will be used for creating OMNI pricing platform for Walmart, across both eCommerce & store channel & across multiple countries with each of them being a multi-billion dollar business for Walmart. You will be challenged with unparalleled complex business problems that span across multiple countries and a large number of users, and data. This team enables our stores and eCommerce operations across the world. The platforms that we build are used in most of the markets where Walmart has its presence (US, Canada, Mexico, Chile, Central America). The pricing platform in Walmart focuses on setting EDLP for stores & least price for the eCommerce channel among all the competitors.

What You'll Do:

• Interact with Walmart engineering teams across geographies to leverage expertise and contribute to the tech community
• Engage with Product Management and Business to drive the agenda, set your priorities, and deliver awesome products
• Work closely with Distinguished Architects and cross-functional teams and follow established practices for the delivery of solutions meeting QCD (Quality, Cost, and Delivery) within the established architectural guidelines
• Participate in hiring and building teams enabling them to be high-performing agile teams
• You will work with engineering teams to create high-level and low-level designs and drive design
• You will come up with quality, best practices, and other Non-functional standards and guide the teams to execute them along with helping them with overall technical and design aspects
• You will help implement cutting-edge models and algorithms that operate on massive amounts of data and Interact with Walmart cross cross-functional engineering teams as cloud, platform, analytics, etc. across geographies to leverage technical expertise and contribute to the engineering community.

What You'll Bring:

• B. Tech. / B. E. / M. Tech. / M. S. in Computer Science or relevant discipline.
• 15+ years of experience in the design and development of highly scalable distributed applications and platforms - particularly for multi-tenant, SaaS products.
• Programming language Java, Kotlin, Scala
• Experience building a 'Code, Deploy, Run' pipeline using DevOps best practices by leveraging the best available CI/CD tools.
• Strong computer science fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, and design patterns.
• Own Tech Debt/Tech Modernization - Ability to balance the long-term "big picture" and short-term implications of design decisions.
• Having proficiency in Java/J2EE, Microservices, and Cloud Native Architecture.
• Hands-on experience in Microservices, and RESTful web services development in Java SpringBoot, Spring Kafka or equivalent framework).
• Good knowledge of messaging systems: Kafka / RabbitMQ.
• In-depth knowledge of Cloud Native Architecture, Microservice Architecture, and related stacks (Service Registry, ELK / Splunk, service registry, VMs, etc. ) and container technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, etc.)
• Knowledge of at least one of Azure/Google Cloud Platforms.
• Self-starter with the ability to multitask across several priority areas in the face of fuzzy situations.
• Demonstrated end-to-end ownership for the development and design of at least one cloud-based project.
• Strong hands-on development skills to prototype technical solutions.
• Strong desire to drive change, and ability to adapt to change quickly.
• Proficient in new and emerging technologies.
• Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills - including negotiation, facilitation, and consensus-building skills; ability to influence and persuade, without direct control.
• Focus on reusability, frameworks, patterns, and configuration tools for faster development.
• Practitioner of Agile (Scrum) methodology

About Walmart Global Tech

Want to be at the forefront of changing how people shop? The Walmart eCommerce team is rapidly innovating to evolve and define the future state of shopping. As the world’s largest retailer, we are on a mission to help people save money and live better. With the help of some of the brightest minds in technology, merchandising, marketing, transportation, supply chain, talent and more, we are reimagining the intersection of digital and physical shopping to help achieve that mission.

Drive change. Make impact. Join us on our mission.

We are looking for a Staff Technical Program Manager to join our Walmart International eCommerce Engineering teams (based in Sunnyvale), to own and drive several complex programs, forming a portfolio of efforts that are geared towards achieving Walmart International eCommerce’s business goals.

What you'll do

• Develop broad domain and technical knowledge.
• Influence executives - simplify problems, creating solutions, drive process to timely results.
• Able to communicate clearly on all levels from support to executive levels.
• Understand technical implementation at the architecture level and propose technical alternatives when necessary. Ask questions that clarify priorities and enable the team to be highly effective.
• Understand key technical dependencies between the cross-functional teams: Data contracts, Infrastructure dependencies like cloud capacity and platform services, and Info sec requirements. Drive the cross-functional teams to think about and plan these dependencies throughout the various stages of the project
• Have a complete view of the program and know how the dependencies affect each team; Use technical judgment to drive project delivery and adjust milestones as dependencies change.
• Setup technology reviews across all the impacted teams, challenge proposals, and build consensus.
• Work closely with architects, engineering managers, and tech leads to ensure that the systems are production-ready and observable - monitoring, alerts, etc.
• Set product and technical milestones, track deliverables, manage expectations, identify risks at the right time, and drive mitigations across all stages of the project.
• Have day-to-day responsibilities for managing complex Agile software development programs and projects to completion.

• Builds roadmaps and Lead large, complex, cross-functional teams within your market and with our stakeholders and partners to initiate, build, delivery and consultation services.
• Develops program/project/release plans and timelines (usually involving multiple tracks), monitors execution progress and drives resolution to possible scope/time trade-offs
• Manages multiple highly complex projects (for example, migrations and system integrations) or a large complex Global eCommerce program in an Agile environment (for example, software development, infrastructure).
• Aligns geographically distributed teams to common business/end-customer/release goals, works cross-functionally to achieve them and ensures accountability to deliver them
• Resolves issues, makes recommendations for improvements to existing processes and develops Program Management best practices.
• Interact and drive communication with key Business Stakeholders, Engineering/ Product Leaders, and Executive sponsors.
• Ability to team with Product managers, Engineers and Engineering leaders to establish and maintain our roadmap, setting appropriate expectations and insuring our product and services meet our high standards for service excellence.
• Models compliance with company policies and procedures and supports company mission, values, and standards of ethics and integrity
• Perform statistical analysis to identify data trends, diagnose product pain-points, and calculate KPIs leveraging survey tools, such as Excel, and more advanced statistical packages.

What You'll Have:

• Bachelor of Science/Master's and 8 years full lifecycle technical program management experience OR Master of Science and 5 years technical program management experience OR 8 years technical program management experience.
• Experience using multiple development approaches (Agile, Kanban ideal).
• Coaching teams on various aspects of the problem, process, tools, and context.
• Experience in working with global and cross-functional internal and external teams.
• Excellent written, verbal presentation and organizational skills, ability to interface with all levels within the organization.
• Comfortable in a fast paced, ambiguous and growing environment.
• Agile tools (JIRA, Confluence, Portfolio and Planning Tools)
• Analytical skills with data sets and intermediate knowledge of statistics from ALM tools or workflow analytics based software
• Experience or Understanding of large scale distributed systems, databases, big data systems, and Cloud native application development
• Solid technical aptitude and an ability to understand technical designs, challenges, and risks
• Contribute to strategy of programs and projects.
• Be good at leading and facilitating discussions. You get the right people in the room, let conversations run their course while they are productive, move them toward consensus when possible, and make hard decisions or escalate, as required

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field.
• Certified Scrum Master preferred
• Experience driving Devops or Platform initiatives is preferred
• Strong business acumen supporting business operations in technology companies and/or retail.
• eCommerce and retail experience strongly preferred.
• Strong solution analysis experience in a global environment with distributed teams
• Knowledge of CI/CD, Test driven development.
• Knowledge of mobile apps development and front end web technologies
• Former software development experience a huge plus

Primary Location

805 Se Moberly Ln, Bentonville, AR 72716, United States of America

Minimum Qualifications

Outlined below are the required minimum qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no minimum qualifications.

• Option 1: Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or related area and 5 years’ experience in software engineering or related area.
• Option 2: 7 years’ experience in software engineering or related area.