- Location
- IN KA BANGALORE Home Office PTPP1, India
- Type
- Full-time
- Department
- Engineering
- Seniority
- Director
- Education
- Bachelor
- Source
- Workday
Description
Position Summary...
What you'll do...
About the Team
Global Catalog
Global Catalog sits at the heart of Walmart's commerce ecosystem, powering product experiences across online and in-store journeys for millions of customers worldwide. It enables suppliers and sellers to efficiently create and manage product experiences while helping customers discover, evaluate, and purchase products with confidence. By powering high-quality product information, rich content, and intelligent commerce experiences, Catalog plays a critical role in connecting customers, suppliers, and sellers across one of the world's largest retail platforms. As Walmart continues to transform retail through people, technology, and AI, Global Catalog is helping shape the future of commerce through innovative capabilities that serve customers, suppliers, sellers, and associates around the world.
The Group Director will be based in the Bengaluru office and will play a key leadership role in shaping the technology strategy and execution for Global Catalog. Working closely with peer engineering leaders, this individual will deliver strategic initiatives, help advance catalog capabilities, and contribute to platform transformation and innovation while partnering with senior stakeholders across Engineering, Product, Business, and Data Science.
What You'll Do
Lead a team of senior engineering leaders, architects, and technologists responsible for building and evolving key Global Catalog capabilities across product data, content, quality, seller enablement, and platform services.
Define and execute the technology strategy and roadmap for key areas within Global Catalog, ensuring alignment with Walmart's business priorities, commerce strategy, and AI transformation agenda.
Lead strategic initiatives that contribute to the evolution of Catalog into a SaaS-like platform by enabling scalable, self-service capabilities, reusable services, APIs, and platform foundations that accelerate innovation across the enterprise.
Partner closely with Product, Business, and Data Science leaders to identify opportunities, prioritise investments, and deliver measurable outcomes for customers, sellers, merchants, and associates.
Influence senior stakeholders across Engineering, Product, Business, Data Science, and Operations organisations, building alignment and driving execution of strategic initiatives across a complex global ecosystem.
Balance long-term strategic platform and architectural investments with short-term business objectives, ensuring sustainable technology evolution while delivering near-term business impact.
Lead the design and operation of highly scalable, reliable, and resilient distributed systems within the Global Catalog ecosystem.
Build and develop a world-class engineering organisation by attracting, mentoring, and growing senior engineering talent while fostering a culture of accountability, innovation, and engineering excellence.
Drive continuous improvement across catalog quality, platform capabilities, operational excellence, and engineering productivity through data, automation, and AI-driven solutions.
Serve as a key technology leader helping shape the future of Walmart's commerce and AI strategy through the evolution of Global Catalog capabilities.
This role requires a leader who can balance deep technical expertise with strategic business thinking and is passionate about advancing the capabilities that power Walmart's global commerce ecosystem.
What You'll Bring
20+ years of technology leadership experience, including leading large engineering organisations (200+ engineers) and developing senior engineering leaders and architects. Deep expertise in building and scaling large-scale distributed systems, with a strong focus on reliability, availability, performance, security, and operational excellence.
Proven experience leading platform, commerce, marketplace, or enterprise product organisations, driving both business growth and technology transformation at scale.
Strong technology and architectural leadership, with expertise across modern software platforms, cloud-native technologies, data platforms, AI/ML-powered systems, and platform engineering practices.
Demonstrated ability to define and execute long-term technology and platform strategies while balancing strategic investments with near-term business objectives and customer outcomes.
Strong executive presence and stakeholder management skills, with a track record of influencing senior leaders, driving alignment across complex organisations, and leading through collaboration and influence.
Proven success building high-performing teams and cultures, including attracting, mentoring, and developing top engineering talent while fostering engineering excellence.
BS/MS in Computer Science or a related technical field, with prior experience in high-growth technology, eCommerce, marketplace, or platform organisations strongly preferred.
This is a unique opportunity to help shape one of Walmart's most strategic capabilities and lead a significant engineering portfolio that powers product experiences across one of the world's largest retail ecosystems.
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 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.