Position Summary...
What you'll do...

The Associate Fellow role is a hands-on role that supports architectural designs and advisory within the Enterprise Business Services team. This is a highly technical role positioned uniquely to drive disruptive growth across key priorities by leveraging differentiated technical prowess. The right candidate would be required to go deep into specific application and services, and work on higher-level multi-domain system designs, transcending functional boundaries.  They would also be responsible for curating, mentoring, and training a vibrant engineering micro-community within the team. 

About Team: 
Our team is focused on developing a streamlined, dependable company that includes service operations and technology solutions for Finance, People, and Associate Digital Experience (ADE). We also provide a variety of services such as procurement, supplier portfolio management, merchandising master data, and analytics. From developing HR chatbots and virtual assistants to creating invoice solutions and facilitating legal changes, we help drive efficiency across Walmart globally. 

What you'll do:

The Associate Fellow role is a hands-on role that centrally supports architectural designs and advisory for multiple enterprise business domain areas. The role will lead overall tech strategy & architecture across a business area. Senior engineer individual contributor roles help drive disruptive growth across our top priorities and can be game changers through:

• Depth focus
• Building systems
• Mentoring and teaching engineers
• Driving holistic outcomes
• Being a central resource

In this role, you will provide direct support and engagement to engineering teams, improve designs, reduce complexity, and contribute to adoption of better practices and strengthened expertise.  This role contributes towards larger systemic decoupling, and better shared standards. You will work to elevate the entire engineering organization and improve the overall quality, stability, and availability of our production systems. 

Some key responsibilities include:

• Lead and inspire high-performing engineering teams to build and scale highly reliable, secure, and performant platform / products and frameworks.
• Drive a results-oriented culture with a strong focus on engineering excellence, execution and propagate build for scale mindset.
• Develop trusted partnerships with developers, business partners, product, and architecture leaders to drive optimized platform / product delivery.
• Lead complex technical and strategic discussions that involve multiple personas including engineering, architect, product, associate, and other stakeholders.
• Assess and leverage technology when appropriate from Global solutions existing in Walmart ecosystem to build / leverage scalable and innovative solutions.
• Build, mentor, and teach a community of engineers within ADE, and act as a central resource to provide advisory on complex projects and issues.
• Possess a high sense of urgency to solve problems and executing them with ownership.

What you'll bring:

• Engineering experience with large scale product development in open stack and microservices delivery environment.
• Familiar with new technology trends.
• A technical expert with in-depth knowledge in building distributed systems and products using hybrid cloud technology handling massive amounts of data. Should have built a complex microservices based platform or product.
• Strong knowledge of the following: 
• Packaged software releases 
• Open-stack technology capabilities (e.g. Python, Spark, Skala)
• Strong data integration capability (e.g. data engineering)
• Experience or proven ability to drive technical vision and provide technical mentorship to all levels of engineering talent. Must have established credibility as an advisor on complex technical issues and projects.
• Experience of working with globally distributed teams.

Preferred experiences and exposures: 

• Agile methodologies.
• Performance instrumentation, tuning, and optimization of large-scale products.
• Good knowledge in design patterns while building cloud-native products.
• Hybrid workplace domain experience will be a huge positive.

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.

Ways of Working

Flexible, hybrid work
We use a hybrid way of working with primary in office presence coupled with an optimal mix of virtual presence. We use our campuses to collaborate and be together in person, as business needs require and for development and networking opportunities. This approach helps us make quicker decisions, remove location barriers across our global team, 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 a host of best-in-class benefits maternity and parental leave, PTO, health benefits, and much more.

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 diversity- unique styles, experiences, identities, ideas and opinions – while being inclusive of all people.

At Walmart, we offer competitive pay as well as performance-based incentive 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 https://one.walmart.com/notices .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 at https://bit.ly/3iOOb1J .The annual salary range for this position is $240,000.00-$360,000.00Additional compensation includes annual or quarterly performance incentives.Additional compensation for certain positions may also include:- Regional Pay Zone (RPZ) (based on location)- Stock equity incentivesMinimum Qualifications...

Outlined below are the required minimum qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no minimum qualifications.

Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or related area.

18 years’ experience with technology/engineering focus working on large-scale and transaction intensive product/product groups in a globally distributed work environment.

Preferred Qualifications...

Outlined below are the optional preferred qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no preferred qualifications.

Primary Location...
680 WEST CALIFORNIA AVENUE, SUNNYVALE, CA 94086-4834, United States of America