(IND) GROUP DIRECTOR, SOFTWARE ENGINEERING

Position Summary...

Provides overall direction by analyzing business objectives and customer needs; developing, communicating, building support for, and implementing business Join our dynamic and forward-thinking engineering organization as our Group Director Software Engineering relating directly to the Runtime Platforms in Global Technology Platform (GTP).
where you'll be at the forefront of driving innovation, spearheading transformative projects and foundational improvements of Runtime platform products and solutions. We are seeking a visionary leader who can seamlessly bridge the gap between business asks and architecting the technical landscape to deliver. Your projects will have tremendous impact, be scalable, and at the center of platform modernization efforts in building a world class Technology platform for Walmart Business.

What you'll do...

About Team:

Join a dynamic engineering team focused on transformation of Runtime platform(RTP). Runtime platform is the heart of Global Tech Platform and Walmart Application, where the org supports Traffic Management, Container Management, VM management, Configuration and Secrets. All the Walmart business run on this platform making it as one of the pivotal organizations. The team consists of highly motivated and talent associates who has best knowledge in domain of Container management, Traffic Management, Configuration, Secrets and cloud platform. As part of Runtime platform, you'll play a key role in driving the Runtime organization at IDC owning the delivery of runtime products and initiatives and with a focus on driving global Traffic Management function.

Traffic Platform Vision is “Enable Walmart to serve customers using efficient, cost effective, modern routing stack that unlocks potential for multi-cloud application deployments.​” Traffic Management team focuses on all the incoming and outgoing traffic for Walmart application and business. It involves CDN Infrastructure, Proxy and Load balancer, Global DNS within Walmart, API Management, MGQL, Software Load balancer and the newest geek eBPF technology.

Today, the traffic platform supports 10M of requests/second across various application, persona and requests making it one of the mission critical software to run Walmart business effectively serving our customers with security and reliability.

If youre inspired by the opportunity to solve complex platform problems at scale and make a difference for our customers and members, this is the right place to join.

What you'll do:

The Group Director of Software Engineering will be a pivotal technology leader overseeing the delivery and people management for runtime teams at IDC and Traffic Management team globally.

Key responsibilities for this role include:

• Leading a team of senior engineering leaders and architects to design, build, and run the next-generation runtime platform at IDC and traffic platform globally
• Building and nurturing a world-class engineering organization, including recruiting, mentoring, and developing senior architects and engineering leaders to foster a high-performing team.
• Proactively identifying and addressing customer issues, ensuring continuous improvement in platform performance, reliability, and user experience.
• Cultivating a culture of innovation, platform thinking, and engineering excellence, driving continuous improvement in both product development and operational efficiency.
• Enforce strong platform mindset to build products that support business innovation and growth keeping the operational excellence for business continuity
• Provide a technology direction and oversight for IDC teams working on Container and VM management, Secrets and Configuration platform, while the primary focus would be on Traffic Platform.
• Collaborate with your peers in runtime teams to build a cohesive and integrated offering across runtime technology stack.
• Understand the current traffic ecosystem, business requirements and propose a forward-looking vision and strategy
• Collaborating with product, business, and operations leaders to define, prioritize, and execute the product and technology roadmap for Traffic systems, ensuring alignment with broader business objectives.
• Provide the technical depth in the traffic and network products and build platform for scale. Bring the synergy across different traffic products and visualize as one single platform with policies and rules applied across the hops.
• Ensure compliance with global networking and security standards, including DDoS protection and rate limiting.
• Lead edge computing and CDN strategy to optimize traffic distribution and reduce latency.
• Enable best of breed recommendations in traffic like queuing, rate limiting, edge computing, traffic prioritization, segmentation, circuit breakers to provide the best class customer experience with improved safety.
• Constantly look for optimization in terms of cost, efficiency and improve the availability, performance and resiliency posture.
• Convert the CxO level goals into roadmap and initiatives, drive the initiative through strategic decision. Define, design and deliver the objectives and key results with metrics driven success measure.

This role requires a visionary leader who can balance technical expertise with strategic business acumen, and who is passionate about shaping the future of Walmart Global Technology Platform.

What you'll bring:

• Extensive experience in managing large-scale platforms, focusing on container and VM management, secrets and configurations platform, traffic, ingress, egress, and network flow.
• Over 10 years of experience in platform development, cloud solutions, and delivering large-scale web events and traffic.
• In-depth knowledge of running large scale Kubernetes and VMs,  distributed networking, edge computing, and cloud-native traffic optimization.
• Practical experience with cloud networking (Azure, GCP, AWS), Kubernetes networking, and service mesh technologies (Istio, Envoy, Linkerd).
• Proficient in TCP/IP, HTTP/HTTPS, and application layer traffic.
• Familiar with traffic policies and best practices such as rate limiting, traffic shaping, and DDoS mitigation.
• Proven track record of enhancing operational excellence and achieving service restoration within 5 minutes through observability and automation-enabled service recovery.
• Competent communication and presentation skills for driving vision, motivating teams, and engaging executive leaders.
• Experience with contributing to or delivering open-source products in the traffic and network domain is advantageous.
• Strong collaboration and communication abilities, capable of building robust relationships across cross-functional teams and senior stakeholders.
• Demonstrated ability to influence across functional boundaries, build consensus, and align diverse teams toward shared objectives.
• Success in hiring, mentoring, and developing top-tier engineering talent—establishing high-performance and impactful teams.
• Holds a BS or MS degree in Computer Science (or a related technical field) with over 20 years of industry experience in engineering and technology leaders   hip.
• A strong inclination towards innovation, committed to advancing technology solutions and introducing new methods to address complex challenges.

About Global Tech

Imagine working in an environment where one line of code can make life easier for hundreds of millions of people and put a smile on their face. Thats what we do at Walmart Global Tech. Were a team of 20,000+ software engineers, data scientists and service professionals within Walmart, the worlds largest retailer, delivering innovations that improve how our customers shop and empower our 2.2 million associates. To others, innovation looks like an app, service or some code, but Walmart has always been about people. People are why we innovate, and people power our innovations. Being human led sis our true disruption.

Ways of Working

Flexible, hybrid work

We use a hybrid way of working with primary in office presence coupled with an optimal mix of virtual presence. We use our campuses to collaborate and be together in person, as business needs require and for development and networking opportunities. This approach helps us make quicker decisions, remove location barriers across our global team, be more flexible in our 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.

Walmart Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer – “ By Choice. We believe we are best equipped to help our associates, customers and the communities we serve to 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
8 years’ experience in software engineering or related area.

Option 2: 10 years’ experience in software engineering or related area.

5 years' supervisory experience.

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 6 years' experience in software engineering or related area

Primary Location...

G, 1, 3, 4, 5 Floor, Building 11, Sez, Cessna Business Park, Kadubeesanahalli Village, Varthur Hobli , India