STAFF, SOFTWARE ENGINEER

Position Summary...

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 promoting a belonging mindset in the workplace. 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.

What you'll do...

About Team:

We are looking for staff engineer to join Supply chain and forecasting team at Walmart.

Everybody has data but at Walmart, the sheer volume of data can be infinite. Our Data Engineering team comes in to help Walmart manage this data, by building pipelines and data lakes to prepare big data for analysis, they help unlock actionable insights in real-time. Data Engineering specialists also use cross-departmental data and machine learning to get a clear picture of the cost incurred at each stage of the supply chain and build a holistic perspective on true profitability - this saves millions of dollars across item categories and geographies, while helping our leadership make better decisions, faster.

What you will do:

You enjoy working on high performance and scalable solutions that extract, transform, and load big data. You love to take raw ideas and define the technical roadmap to solve the business and product problems by building solutions as multi-tenant, scalable and extensible platform approach. You spend most of your time on owning up multiple systems across big data platforms, and work with engineers, product managers, and engineering leaders to identify opportunities for business impact.

• Architect, design, develop, and implement large-scale distributed systems that process large volume of data; focusing on scalability, latency, efficiency and fault-tolerance in every system that you build.
• Take ownership of a vaguely defined major business problem or product vision, translate it into executable technical design and roadmaps to solve the problem or realise the product vision.
• Participate in setting a vision and objectives for the team in alignment with business and market needs.
• Role model for behaviours such as – being data intensive while taking everyday decisions, approach everyday problems with scientific temperament and rigour, having customer-first mind-set, maintaining highest standards for operational and engineering excellence.
• Raise the bar by improving the team’s definition of best practices and architecture with deep domain knowledge.
• Demonstrate the belief that you can achieve more on a team that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts and rely on others’ candid feedback for continuous improvement.
• Drive the creation and modifications of the product portfolio components, identify and engage all technical resources necessary to contribute to the solution ensure the solution is consistent with Walmart architecture, design and development standards.
• Experiment: This is a startup-like environment so everything can change as we experiment with doing more custom partnership work.
• Stay current with latest development tools, technology ideas, patterns and methodologies; share knowledge by clearly articulating results and ideas to key stakeholders.

What you will bring:

• B.Tech. / B.E. / M.Tech. / M.S. in Computer Science.
• Minimum 10+ years of experience in design and development of highly scalable applications and platform development in product based companies or R&D divisions.
• Strong computer science fundamentals: Data structure, algorithms and design patterns.
• Advanced knowledge of at least one programming language, including Java and/or Python.
• Deep understanding in Big Data Ecosystem - Hadoop, Spark and NoSql.
• Proven ability to lead a group through an architectural development process and collaborate with stakeholders at all levels.
• Mandate skills requires Spark, Java, Python, Hadoop, HDFS, GCP, BigQuery, SQL, Hive
• Have worked alongside the pioneers of Big data systems such as Hadoop, Hive, Spark, Presto and Kafka to build out a highly reliable, performant, easy to use software systems for Walmart’s planet scale of data.
• Strong sense of ownership, focus on quality, team orientation, design thinking, responsiveness, efficiency and innovation
• 10+ years of experience in building large scale products, distributed systems in a high caliber environment, with frameworks and abstractions that are reliable, scalable, flexible and reusable.
• Proficient of multi-tenancy, resource isolation, abuse prevention, self-serve debuggability aspects of a high performant, large scale services.
• Ability to work with distributed teams in a collaborative and productive manner.
• Prior exposure to GCP, NoSQL based cloud native databases, and big data technologies.
• Experience with containerisation and container platforms. (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes, Docker EE, Etc).
• Good understanding of orchestration framework like Airflow or Oozie

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.

Walmart’s culture sets us apart, and we know being together helps us innovate, learn and grow great careers. This role is based in our [Bangalore/Chennai] office for daily work, with the flexibility for associates to manage their personal lives.

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.

Belonging

We aim to create a culture where every associate feels valued for who they are, rooted in respect for the individual. Our goal is to foster a sense of belonging, to create opportunities for all our associates, customers and suppliers, and to be a Walmart for everyone.

At Walmart, our vision is "everyone included." by fostering a workplace culture where everyone is—and feels—included, everyone wins. Our associates and customers reflect the makeup of all 19 countries where we operate. By making Walmart a welcoming place where all people feel like they belong, we’re able to engage associates, strengthen our business, improve our ability to serve customers, and support the communities where we operate.

Equal opportunity employer

Walmart, inc., is an equal opportunities 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 unique styles, experiences, identities, ideas and opinions – while being inclusive of all people.

Minimum Qualifications...

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

Minimum Qualifications:Option 1: Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or related area and 4 years’ experience in software engineering or related area.Option 2: 6 years’ experience in software engineering or related area.

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 2 years' experience in software engineering or related area

Primary Location...

Block- 1, Prestige Tech Pacific Park, Sy No. 38/1, Outer Ring Rd Kadubeesanahalli , India