- Location
- IN KA BANGALORE Home Office Building 11, India
- Type
- Full-time
- Department
- Engineering
- Seniority
- Lead
- Education
- Bachelor
- Source
- Workday
Description
Position Summary...
What you'll do...
About our team - Data Ventures
Data Ventures exists to unlock the full value of Walmart’s data by developing and productizing B2B data initiatives that empower merchants and suppliers to make better, faster decisions for the business. As part of this transformation, we’re seeking entrepreneurial individuals to help drive data productization from concept to deployment.
What You'll Do:
Define and drive the technical vision and architecture for large-scale backend platforms, distributed systems, and data-intensive applications serving millions of customers and associates.
Architect highly available, resilient, secure, and scalable systems using Java, Spring Boot, microservices, distributed systems, and cloud-native technologies.
Lead the design and evolution of enterprise-scale backend platforms, reusable frameworks, APIs, shared services, and engineering capabilities used across multiple teams and products.
Establish architectural standards, design patterns, and engineering practices that improve scalability, reliability, maintainability, security, and developer productivity.
Design and optimize distributed systems for high throughput, low latency, fault tolerance, multi-region availability, and operational excellence.
Architect data processing solutions supporting both batch and real-time workloads, leveraging technologies such as Apache Spark, Hadoop, Kafka, and cloud-native data platforms.
Guide the development of scalable ETL/ELT pipelines and data processing frameworks supporting operational applications, analytics, and AI/ML workloads.
Evaluate and optimize distributed compute, storage, messaging, and data processing architectures based on performance, scalability, reliability, and cost.
Establish engineering practices for data quality, data governance, schema management, lineage, observability, and reliable data processing.
Partner with Data Engineering, AI/ML, Platform, Infrastructure, Product, and Architecture teams to solve complex cross-domain technical problems.
Lead architecture reviews and provide technical direction across multiple engineering teams and strategic initiatives.
Make critical architectural decisions by evaluating long-term technical, operational, business, and cost implications.
Drive modernization of legacy platforms through cloud-native architectures, distributed technologies, automation, and reusable platform capabilities.
Mentor Staff and Senior Engineers and raise the technical bar through architecture guidance, design reviews, technical forums, and knowledge sharing.
Influence engineering strategy and investment decisions without relying on formal organizational authority.
Drive resolution of complex production and architectural issues through structured problem solving, root cause analysis, and sustainable engineering solutions.
Maintain and communicate Architectural Decision Records (ADRs) and technical strategies to provide transparency into key architectural decisions and trade-offs.
Identify emerging technologies and evaluate their applicability to Walmart's engineering ecosystem, including AI/ML, GenAI, distributed computing, and modern data platforms.
Champion engineering excellence through automation, observability, performance engineering, security, reliability, and continuous improvement.
What You'll Bring:
12+ years of software engineering experience, with significant experience designing and building large-scale distributed systems and backend platforms.
Deep expertise in Java and modern backend technologies such as Spring Boot.
Extensive experience with microservices, distributed systems, API architecture, event-driven systems, and cloud-native architectures.
Strong understanding of distributed computing concepts including scalability, partitioning, consistency, concurrency, fault tolerance, resiliency, and multi-region architectures.
Strong experience with Apache Kafka or comparable distributed messaging and streaming technologies.
Strong working knowledge of Apache Spark, Hadoop ecosystem technologies, distributed data processing, and large-scale data pipelines.
Experience with ETL/ELT, batch and streaming processing, data modeling, data quality, and data platform architecture.
Familiarity with modern Data Lake/Lakehouse architectures and technologies such as Apache Iceberg or Delta Lake is preferred.
Strong understanding of SQL and experience with relational and NoSQL databases, distributed storage, caching, and analytical data platforms.
Experience designing and operating highly available systems on Azure, AWS, or GCP.
Strong experience with Kubernetes, Docker, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, observability, and production operations.
Demonstrated ability to optimize large-scale applications and distributed workloads for performance, reliability, scalability, and cost.
Strong understanding of software architecture, design patterns, security, resiliency, and operational excellence.
Proven ability to solve highly complex technical problems spanning multiple systems, platforms, and engineering domains.
Demonstrated ability to influence architecture and technical strategy across multiple teams and organizations without formal authority.
Experience mentoring Staff and Senior Engineers and establishing engineering standards across teams.
Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to communicate complex architectural concepts and trade-offs to engineers, architects, and senior leadership.
Experience integrating AI/ML, MLOps, or GenAI capabilities into enterprise software platforms is a plus.
Demonstrated curiosity, technical depth, and ability to evaluate emerging technologies and translate them into practical engineering solutions.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 3 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.
