SENIOR DIRECTOR, SOFTWARE ENGINEERING

Walmart · Retail & E-commerce

IN KA BANGALORE Home Office PTPP1
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Position Summary...

Walmart is seeking a Senior Director of Engineering to lead technology delivery across Energy, Real Estate and Manufacturing within the Walmart US Store OPD organization. This leader will own engineering strategy and execution for federated Digital Twins, the modernization of proprietary meat and dairy manufacturing operations, and Goods Not For Resale (GNFR) supply chain and asset procurement systems.

The role connects technology investment to the everyday operation of stores, manufacturing plants, and GNFR facilities. You will partner with business and product leaders to improve energy efficiency, equipment reliability, manufacturing operations, and the availability of maintenance and replacement parts. You will turn complex operational problems into clear requirements, sound technical designs, and measurable results.

You will lead engineering managers, architects, and multidisciplinary engineering teams through the full lifecycle of business applications and their integrations—from discovery and architecture through rollout, production operations, and continuous improvement. Success requires business judgment, technical depth, and the ability to lead change across software teams and physical operations.

What you'll do...

About the Team

The team builds and operates technology that helps Walmart understand and improve its physical environments, modernize manufacturing, and support the assets that keep stores running. Its work spans digital representations and simulations of stores and supply chain facilities, IoT and automation in meat and dairy plants, and GNFR systems connecting stores, service technicians, and distribution centers.

What You Will Do

Own Business Outcomes and Engineering Strategy

Start with operational problems: Work directly with store, energy, real estate, manufacturing, and GNFR partners to understand user workflows, operational constraints, and business priorities. Translate these into product requirements and engineering commitments.

Set direction and prioritize investment: Define a multi-year technology roadmap with product and business leaders. Balance new capabilities, modernization, technical debt, operational resilience, and cost; make investment tradeoffs explicit.

Measure value after launch: Establish business, functional, and engineering baselines before delivery. Review adoption and realized benefits with operating teams, and use evidence to adjust priorities and solution design.

Business and Domain Responsibilities

Digital Twins and Energy and Asset Intelligence

Connect Walmart’s digital twins: Deliver a federated ecosystem connecting 13+ digital twins through a unified connective layer for shared simulation, standardized data, and cross-domain intelligence. Preserve domain ownership while enabling information to work across business boundaries.

Create a consistent operational model: Standardize the enterprise ontology for associates, products, spaces, and equipment. Define shared identifiers, relationships, and data contracts that reduce silos and shorten use-case onboarding from months to weeks.

Turn simulation into operating decisions: Scale simulation for HVAC, lighting, and refrigeration energy efficiency; emergency routing; predictive equipment maintenance; and hazard detection across stores and the supply chain. Partner with business owners to validate results and incorporate them into operational workflows.

Lead the technical design: Own architecture decisions for 3D engine integration, core service databases, spatial and equipment data, alarms, and event processing. Establish data freshness, interoperability, and simulation validation practices so users can trust the results.

Scale efficiently: Set baselines for simulation latency, query throughput, and concurrent scenario capacity. Improve compute and storage efficiency while maintaining the performance required by each business use case.

Modern Manufacturing Engineering

Modernize meat and dairy operations: Direct the engineering strategy and technical roadmap for Walmart’s proprietary processing and manufacturing plants. Partner with plant leaders to prioritize operational needs and sequence delivery around production requirements.

Connect operational data and workflows: Lead IoT and automation solutions that bring equipment and production information into usable engineering and business applications. Define integrations, data ownership, and exception handling across connected systems.

Improve plant visibility and execution: Enable timely insight into equipment condition and operational exceptions. Work with manufacturing teams to reduce manual intervention and improve the reliability and efficiency of technology-supported production processes.

Deliver safely into live operations: Coordinate testing, site readiness, deployment windows, training, and support with plant and operations partners. Validate changes against operational requirements and establish clear recovery and escalation procedures.

GNFR Supply Chain and Store Asset Support

Own GNFR warehouse technology: Lead engineering and technical operations for Warehouse Management Systems across the GNFR network, with accountability for dependable inventory and fulfillment workflows.

Deliver OneAtlas facility rollouts: Lead technical rollout and integration across upcoming GNFR facilities. Own integration readiness, data migration validation, end-to-end testing, cutover, stabilization, and handoff to operational support.

Support store asset maintenance: Enhance ordering, inventory tracking, and fulfillment of maintenance and replacement parts for commercial HVAC, refrigeration systems, fixtures, and other store assets. Improve visibility for stores and service technicians from request through fulfillment.

Connect procurement and fulfillment: Modernize asset procurement, catalog management, inventory visibility, and order routing between stores, service technicians, and GNFR distribution centers. Address inconsistent data and workflow gaps that delay fulfillment or require manual coordination.

Technical and Operational Leadership

Architecture and Technical Depth

Own application and integration design: Guide domain modeling, service boundaries, APIs, event contracts, workflow orchestration, and data architecture across the portfolio. Make deliberate choices on scale, decoupling, extensibility, and maintainability.

Engage in the hardest engineering decisions: Work directly with architects and engineers on complex design and production problems. Challenge assumptions, review alternatives, and explain tradeoffs in business and technical terms.

Modernize with continuity: Define incremental migration and integration strategies for existing business systems. Protect data integrity and operational continuity through compatibility planning, reconciliation, controlled rollout, and tested rollback or recovery paths.

Govern data quality and access: Establish clear ownership, validation, lineage, and access controls for equipment, location, catalog, inventory, and operational event data. Partner with security and relevant business teams on privacy, security, and compliance requirements.

Engineering Excellence and Production Ownership

Own the full development lifecycle: Set expectations for design reviews, code quality, automated testing, CI/CD, documentation, and production readiness. Cover integration, performance, resilience, and critical business workflows in validation.

Run reliable business services: Define service-level objectives and agreements that reflect operational criticality. Establish end-to-end observability across applications, integrations, and business flows, including detection of stalled or incomplete processing.

Lead incident prevention and recovery: Build clear on-call ownership, runbooks, escalation paths, and recovery procedures. Review incidents with business partners, address recurring causes, and test continuity and disaster recovery plans.

Improve performance and unit economics: Use telemetry, profiling, and capacity analysis to improve latency, throughput, and resource utilization. Manage cloud, storage, and software costs against the business value and workload served.

Eliminate operational toil: Automate repetitive support, data validation, deployment, and recovery tasks. Measure reductions in manual effort and failure rates while retaining appropriate controls for actions affecting live operations.

Organizational Leadership and Execution

Build and develop the organization: Design teams with clear ownership and appropriate spans and layers. Hire and develop engineering managers, architects, and senior technical contributors across software, data, IoT, and systems engineering.

Set a high performance standard: Run consistent goal setting, coaching, calibration, promotion, and performance management. Build succession plans and strengthen both technical and people leadership.

Establish execution mechanisms: Translate strategy into OKRs, milestones, dependency plans, and regular business reviews. Surface risks early, resolve cross-team dependencies, and maintain clear accountability for commitments and benefits.

Influence across functions: Align executive stakeholders in Supply Chain, Real Estate, Store Operations, Manufacturing, Product, and Global Technology. Communicate decisions, investment needs, progress, and risks clearly to technical and business audiences.

Model Walmart values: Respect the Individual, Act with Integrity, Serve our Customers and Members, and Strive for Excellence. Create an inclusive environment where associates can challenge assumptions, learn, and take ownership.

What You Will Bring

Minimum Qualifications

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical discipline.

15+ years of software engineering and systems architecture experience, including at least 5 years leading large-scale, multi-team engineering organizations at Director level or above.

A proven record of delivering enterprise business applications and distributed systems, with experience in data integration or federation and complex cross-system workflows.

Demonstrated experience in supply chain technologies, specifically Warehouse Management Systems and enterprise asset management.

Experience leading engineering managers, architects, and senior technical contributors, including hiring, organization design, talent development, and performance management.

Evidence of translating business problems into technical requirements and delivering measurable improvements in operational outcomes, service reliability, performance, or cost.

Strong architecture and engineering judgment across APIs, event-driven systems, databases, integration patterns, and the full software development lifecycle.

Experience owning production services and major modernization programs, managing cross-functional dependencies, and communicating with senior business and technology leaders.

Preferred Qualifications

Experience architecting or operationalizing virtual stores/DC/FCs, simulation engines, enterprise ontologies, or 3D and spatial data solutions.

Experience with IoT, equipment telemetry, automation, or technology delivery in manufacturing or industrial environments, especially meat or dairy processing.

Experience with energy management, predictive maintenance, refrigeration or HVAC systems, or technology supporting physical asset operations.

Experience rolling out WMS, asset management, procurement, or related business applications across large distribution, manufacturing, or retail networks.

Experience connecting enterprise applications with operational technology and managing site readiness, cutover, stabilization, and business adoption.

Strong financial and technical governance acumen, including cloud infrastructure budgets, vendor decisions, performance contracts, and total cost of ownership.

How Success Will Be Measured

Agree baselines and targets with business owners for the scope of each initiative. Evaluate both business impact and engineering health rather than delivery volume alone.

Business results: Energy efficiency and asset reliability; manufacturing operational efficiency and manual effort; GNFR inventory accuracy, ordering and fulfillment cycle times, and facility rollout readiness.

Digital Twin effectiveness: Use-case onboarding time, simulation adoption and validated usefulness, data freshness and quality, simulation latency, query throughput, and concurrent scenario capacity.

Engineering and organizational health: Availability, incident impact and recovery time, change quality, delivery predictability, cost efficiency, operational toil, and development of engineering talent.

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 experts 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.

Flexible Work

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 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.

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 7 years’ experience in software engineering or related area.

Option 2: 9 years’ experience in software engineering or related area. 4 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 5 years' experience in software engineering or related area., 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...

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

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