GROUP DIRECTOR, SOFTWARE ENGINEERING

Position Summary...

What you'll do...

GD - GTP, Builder Experience

About Builder Experience 

Builder Experience (BeX) improves how people plan, build, deploy, and operate technology at Walmart. A builder is anyone who contributes to delivering technology outcomes, including engineers, product managers, architects, operators, security partners, and program leaders. 

We create connected workflows, capabilities, and integrations that make secure, compliant, and reliable delivery easier. We work with application teams across Walmart and Sam’s Club, as well as platform teams, to provide cohesive builder experience while teams retain ownership of their products and platforms. 

About the Role 

As Group Director, Build and Deploy, you will lead the global organization responsible for the builder experience from code through production. You will own the strategy, product direction, engineering execution, adoption, and measurable outcomes for Walmart’s build and deployment experiences. 

You will lead teams in India and the United States and work across product, platform, security, reliability, architecture, and business organizations. 

This is a transformation mandate. Deployment is the center of gravity, along with the upstream build capabilities required to deliver software safely and repeatedly. You will simplify fragmented workflows, modernize build and release practices, and help Walmart advance toward AI-enabled, intent-driven software delivery. 

What You Will Do 

• Set the multi-year strategy, architecture direction, and roadmap for Build and Deploy within Builder Experience. 
• Reimagine the code-to-production journey by removing the highest-friction and highest-risk steps. 
• Deliver secure, compliant, reliable, and self-service workflows that are easy for builders to use and application teams to adopt. 
• Modernize build systems, reusable components, artifact flows, continuous integration, continuous delivery, deployment orchestration, and release practices. 
• Create a cohesive builder experience that abstracts tool complexity and supports deployment across environments and platforms. 
• Integrate AI-assisted planning and execution into build and deployment workflows with appropriate evaluation, guardrails, and human accountability. 
• Establish and improve measures for cycle time, pipeline performance, deployment quality, recovery, adoption, builder satisfaction, and manual toil.  Define shared roadmaps, ownership boundaries, decision rights, and operating mechanisms with platform, runtime, reliability, Information Security, architecture, and product teams. 
• Lead and develop a distributed organization across India and the United States, with clear accountability, strong succession, and equitable access to high-impact work. 
• Manage portfolio investment and make deliberate build, buy, and partner decisions based on differentiation, time to value, total cost, and long-term ownership.
• Embed security, privacy, compliance, reliability, accessibility, and responsible AI into product and engineering decisions. 

Scope and Partnership Model 

The Build and Deploy organization owns the builder-facing experience, workflow orchestration, product roadmap, reusable capabilities, adoption, and outcomes. 

Partner teams continue to own core deployment infrastructure and production operations. You will establish clear boundaries and shared measures, align teams around joint roadmaps, and create a seamless experience across platforms. 

What Success Looks Like 

• Builders can move from code to production through clear, self-service workflows with less manual coordination and fewer handoffs. 
• Application teams adopt common build and deployment capabilities because they are faster, safer, and easier to use. 
• Delivery performance improves against agreed baselines, including cycle time, pipeline success, deployment quality, recovery, and toil.
• Security, compliance, reliability, and responsible AI controls are integrated into the workflow rather than handled through separate approval processes. 
• Platform partners operate with clear ownership, joint roadmaps, service expectations, and escalation mechanisms. 
• Teams in India and the United States operate as one global organization with strong leaders, clear accountability, and a healthy succession bench. 

What You Will Bring 

• A bachelor’s degree with a major in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, or a related technical field. 
• Demonstrated success leading a large platform engineering, developer experience, build and release, or software delivery organization through significant transformation. 
• Technical depth in build systems, artifact management, software supply chain controls, continuous integration and continuous delivery, deployment orchestration, cloud-native delivery, and reliability. 
• Experience modernizing complex legacy environments while protecting operational continuity, security, and builder trust. 
• A strong product mindset, including customer research, adoption leadership, data-informed prioritization, and measurable outcome delivery. 
• Experience leading leaders and distributed teams across regions, with a track record of developing talent and successors. 
• The ability to create shared outcomes across organizations with different responsibilities, priorities, and incentives. 
• Sound judgment across security, privacy, compliance, accessibility, reliability, and responsible use of artificial intelligence. 
• Clear and influential communication with technical teams, executives, and business partners, including the ability to explain trade-offs and make difficult decisions. 
• Experience managing enterprise investment, capacity, vendors, and build, buy, and partner decisions. 

How You Will Lead 

You will build an inclusive global organization that listens to builders and partners, develops strong leaders, and recognizes contributions across locations and roles. 

You will make transparent decisions, protect customers and associate trust, uphold security and compliance, and maintain human accountability for AI-enabled actions. 

 You will connect builder productivity and delivery quality to reliable experiences for Walmart customers, members, associates, and sellers. 

 You will set a high engineering bar, use data to drive improvement, simplify complex systems, and scale what works. 

The Opportunity 

This role offers the opportunity to shape how software reaches production on Walmart scale. You will combine platform strategy, technical depth, product thinking, and global leadership to reinvent the Build and Deploy experience and continuously adapt it as technology, risk, and builder needs evolve.  

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 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, 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...

Building 10 (sez), Cessna Business Park, Kadubeesanahalli Village, Varthur Hobli , India