Senior Director, Engineering (Sunnyvale)

Walmart
Sunnyvale, CA

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Base pay range

$208,000.00/yr - $416,000.00/yr

Position Summary...

What you'll do...

The Emerging Tech team is passionate about solving customer and associate problems with the newest technologies. The team is responsible for creating breakthrough capabilities, delivering frictionless experiences and making these technologies easily available to thousands of Walmart developers and 2.2 million associates. The applications and services built on these capabilities are used by hundreds of millions of customers daily.

What you'll do:

  • Lead a High-Performing Organization: Attract and develop top talent. Provide guidance, mentorship, and career growth opportunities. Set high performance expectations.
  • Foster Culture: Create an engaging, collaborative, curious and innovative organizational culture.
  • Technical Leadership: Provide technical leadership and oversee system architecture decisions.
  • Operational Excellence: Build a culture of operational excellence, ensuring the availability, scalability, and performance of our systems. Enhance operational and engineering standards proactively.
  • Deliver Impactful Solutions: Own the delivery of software systems that significantly impact the company.
  • Define Technical Strategy: Collaborate and influence business and product teams to maximize long-term success.
  • Communicate Vision and Strategy: Effectively communicate vision and strategy to cross-functional teams, from senior leadership to partner teams and engineers.

What you'll bring:

  • Bachelors, Masters, or Ph D from a reputed institution.
  • 15+ years of software engineering experience in a related industry.
  • 7+ years of experience managing and mentoring software engineering teams.
  • 4+ years of experience managing other managers.
  • Demonstrated history of building successful software products at scale.
  • Demonstrated history of building successful software products leveraging GenAI technology.
  • Strong system architecture, problem-solving, and data-driven decision-making skills.
  • Ability to influence business and product teams with strong collaboration skills.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills, adept at communicating with executive levels, peers, and subordinates.
  • Demonstrated history of customer obsession and an agile mindset.
  • Strong sense of ownership and urgency.

About Walmart Global Tech:

Imagine working in an environment where one line of code can make life easier for hundreds of millions of people. Thats what we do at Walmart Global Tech. Were a team of software engineers, data scientists, cybersecurity experts and service professionals within the worlds 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.

Walmart's culture is a competitive advantage, and its fostered by being together. Working together in person allows us to collaborate, align quickly and innovate with greater speed. We use our campuses to create purposeful connection rooted in deepening understanding and investing in the development of our associates.

Our hubs: Walmart is a global company with offices across the United States and around the world. Our global headquarters is in Bentonville, Arkansas, with primary hubs in the San Francisco Bay area and New York/New Jersey.

Benefits:

Benefits: Beyond our great compensation package, you can receive incentive awards for your performance. Other great perks include 401(k) match, stock purchase plan, paid maternity and parental leave, PTO, multiple health plans, and much more.

Equal Opportunity Employer:

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 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.

The above information has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed in the role. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all responsibilities and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job. The full Job Description can be made available as part of the hiring process.

At Walmart, we offer competitive pay as well as performance-based bonus awards and other great benefits for a happier mind, body, and wallet. Health benefits include medical, vision and dental coverage. Financial benefits include 401(k), stock purchase and company-paid life insurance. Paid time off benefits include PTO (including sick leave), parental leave, family care leave, bereavement, jury duty, and voting. Other benefits include short-term and long-term disability, company discounts, Military Leave Pay, adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, and more.

You will also receive PTO and/or PPTO that can be used for vacation, sick leave, holidays, or other purposes. The amount you receive depends on your job classification and length of employment. It will meet or exceed the requirements of paid sick leave laws, where applicable.

For information about PTO, see

Live Better U is a Walmart-paid education benefit program for full-time and part-time associates in Walmart and Sam's Club facilities. Programs range from high school completion to bachelor's degrees, including English Language Learning and short-form certificates. Tuition, books, and fees are completely paid for by Walmart.

Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to a specific plan or program terms.

For Information About Benefits And Eligibility, See One.Walmart.

The annual salary range for this position is $208,000.00-$416,000.00

Additional Compensation Includes Annual Or Quarterly Performance Bonuses.

Additional compensation for certain positions may also include:

  • Stock

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 and7 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.

Working on cross-functional teams or projects

Masters

Primary Location...

1375 Crossman Ave, Sunnyvale, CA 94089-1114, United States of America

Seniority level

  • Seniority level

    Not Applicable

Employment type

  • Employment type

    Part-time

Job function

  • Job function

    Engineering and Information Technology
  • Industries

    Retail

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