Director, Software Engineering DevOps - Walmart : Job Details

Job Summary:

Walmart is looking for a passionate DevOPS Leader who is willing to solve large customer problems across a horizontal organization. USOmniTech focuses on building reusable technologies that aid in acquiring customers, onboarding, and empowering merchants. E2E supply chain fulfillment both in e-commerce and stores. Delivering customer orders via store and last mile fulfillment.

As a DevOPS functional owner, the role expects the associate to work E2E with different teams to build a strong DevOPS strategy, define the technical roadmap, and build a strong people culture with extreme ownership.

About Team:

USOmniTech Operations, DevOPS and E2E is responsible for operations, stability, and reliability of highly optimized products to manage the entire gamut of the UsOmniTech lifecycle for our retail and e-commerce lines of business. With our rapidly increasing footfalls in stores and exponential growth in online orders; this all has to be done to scale millions of owned and marketplace SKU's complete inbound and outbound fulfillment lifecycles.

Team's mission - “Enable customers to receive their orders when and where they want in an innovative and cost-effective way for Walmart“ derives from Walmart's mission statement - “Save Money. Live Better” complementing our organization's philosophy to deliver low prices every day, on everything.

How we achieve this comes down to the team of operation specialists and the smartest technologists from India focused on the entire suite of supply chain management products for the Walmart Supply Chain at a massive scale. From forecasting & replenishing inventory for millions of items worth billions of dollars, sourcing of millions of orders, to route optimization & last mile delivery to Warehouse Management Systems to the most advanced grocery & order management systems & Item and inventory Systems. Operations team will minimize any disturbance to Supply chain operations by proactively identifying and remediating potential causes resulting in minimum to zero system downtime.

With over 1500 associates in the US and India, we're bringing together some of the best professionals from around the world. If you're inspired by the opportunity to solve complex problems at scale and make a difference for our customers and members, join us.

What you'll do:

• Build, develop and guide high-performing talent. Define a long-term talent strategy cutting across technology. Provide supervision, mentoring, and development opportunities for the team who report into you.
• Help define Technical and process Roadmap and own the entire DevOPS end to end.
• Work very closely with various business stakeholders to drive the execution of multiple business plans and technologies.
• Improve, optimize and identify opportunities for efficient Support and development process.
• Handle budget planning, spend and tracking for your area of responsibility. The budget will be across headcount and 3rd party contractors.
• Promote and support company policies, procedures, mission, values, and standards of ethics and integrity.
• Drive changes in multiple areas spanning across domains.
• Set, define and implement best practices and industry standards to constantly raise the quality bar of DevOps.
• Focus on generating intellectual property assets on DevOps, tools, and techniques implemented.

What you'll bring:

• An Engineering Degree - B.E/B.Tech/MS/PhD in any stream – Computer Science preferred.
• 18+ years of relevant experience with below mentioned skills.
• Experience in leading/Heading operations/development teams for a large customer base for complex and critical systems.
• Knowledge of industry's legal rules and guidelines. Knowledge of transition and executed at least two transition projects and setting up successful operations teams.
• In-depth knowledge of diverse business functions and principles (e.g. supply chain, finance, customer service etc).
• Knowledge of procurement process, managing budgets and financial systems, software engineering and architecture knowledge, and understanding in emerging technologies of Cloud.
• Distributed computing and big data ITSM knowledge and industrial best practices.
• Strong development background preferable in Java/J2EE development track record. A good understanding of CS Fundamentals, Data Structures, Algorithms, and Problem Solving.
• Understand the product and project management space with Agile methodologies. Experience across the product development SDLC.

Our Ideal candidate:

Our ideal candidate is an energetic; self-motivated individual focused on solving customer problems. He/she is someone who thrives in a fun, fast-paced, dynamic, start-up-like environment.

• Should have deep interest and passion for technology.
• Should be enthusiastic and excited about cloud computing and its impact on solving business problems at scale.
• Should have strong problem-solving, analytical, decision-making, communication, and interpersonal skills and should be a team player.
• Should have strong consulting and relationship skills to build long-lasting relationships with Walmart business and technology teams.

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 skill sets 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, hybrid work:We use a hybrid way of working that is primarily in office coupled with virtual when not onsite. Our campuses serve as a hub to enhance collaboration, bring us together for purpose and deliver on business needs. This approach helps us make quicker decisions, remove location barriers across our global team and be more flexible in our personal lives.

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