Position Summary...
Provides overall direction by analyzing business objectives and customer needs; developing, communicating, building support for, and implementing business strategies, plans, and practices; analyzing costs and forecasts and incorporating them into business plans; determining and supporting resource requirements; evaluating operational processes; measuring outcomes to ensure desired results; identifying and capitalizing on improvement opportunities; promoting a customer environment; and demonstrating adaptability and sponsoring continuous learning. Develops and implements strategies to attract and maintain a highly skilled and engaged workforce by diagnosing capability gaps; recruiting, selecting, and developing talent; supporting mentorship, workforce development, and succession planning; and leveraging the capabilities of new and existing talent. Cultivates an environment where associates respect and adhere to company standards of integrity and ethics by integrating these values into all programs and practices; developing consequences for violations or non-compliance; and supporting the Open Door Policy. Develops and leverages internal and external partnerships and networks to maximize the achievement of business goals by sponsoring and leading key community outreach and involvement initiatives; engaging key stakeholders in the development, execution, and evaluation of appropriate business plans and initiatives; and supporting associate efforts in these areas.
What you'll do...
About The Team
(Health & Wellness Pharmacy Technology)
Our Health and Wellness Pharmacy Technology team is part of Walmart Global Tech. We are a group of engineers and software leaders. We build technology to connect and enable our pharmacy associates with our patients, both online and in store. We use cutting-edge technology and have a blend of in-store and cloud-based approaches to best serve our customers. We are continually modernizing the footprint of 5400+ pharmacies to reduce friction in our Health & Wellness environments and experiences.
What you'll do...
As a Software Engineering Director for Pharmacy Tech, you will lead our Pharmacy Technology development teams. You will be managing a global team of 50+ technologists. The role entails the following responsibilities:
- Complete ownership of Pharmacy Digital products including product development, engineering excellence and operational excellence
- Work with a team of Architects and Tech Leads to define, own and implement the technology strategy.
- Define engineering practices, product development patterns and drive products development to scale to Walmart requirements.
- Drive best practices for product development to keep team, cost and processes lean, deliver more and optimize the waste.
- Build, own and mentor the team of high-performance engineering team, product owners and engineering managers, provide thought leadership across each of these functions to bring best efficiencies and quality.
- Promote and support company policies, procedures, mission, values, and standards of ethics and integrity.
- Partner with other functional leaders to evolve the multi-year product & technology roadmap, which includes an ongoing approach to accelerate modernization.
- Hire talent, mentor current associates and grow the team
- Build and implement a succession pipeline.
- Proactively monitor, identify, and resolve customer issues.
What you will bring:
- Technical leadership in design, implementation and support of core platform products that are highly reliable, extensible, and scalable.
- Health/Pharma industry experience along with building & managing large scale Retail platforms/applications.
- Experienced in Platform / Product development at scale.
- Hands on contribution to design reviews, code reviews and technical trouble shooting.
- In depth Knowledge of Microservices, deployment pipelines, containerization, Kubernetes, open stack and deployment patterns are desirable.
- Must be aware of Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment tools and products. Design and architecture understanding of how to build these products are added advantage.
- Expert level knowledge of InfoSec needs for Health/Pharma so that patient safety needs are treated as first-class considerations in software development lifecycle.
- Hands on ability to drive design decisions with clear understanding of tradeoffs. Partnership and influencing architecture leadership is critical for this role.
- Strong experience in driving Engineering and Operational Excellence including E2E Observability, Incident Management, Infra cost optimization, Performance instrumentation, tuning and optimization of large-scale products.
- Have the knowledge of design patterns that help building cloud native products.
- Experience in Supply Chain and eCommerce domain will be a positive.
- Experience working and thriving in globally distributed teams in a collaborative and productive manner. Champion WM culture - Being respectful at all times and navigating the organization successfully putting company and people’s needs in front of their own.
- Provide & coach the team on non-functional requirements for world-class reliability and cost-efficiency throughout the product development lifecycle.
- Understand the product and project management space with Agile methodologies.
- Excellent interpersonal skills, good with people, ability to negotiate and influence where this role might not have decisioning authority.
- Experience with hiring and building teams from ground up Keen eye for new technology trends and how they can be used to help grow the business Experience building products that are powered by massive data.
- Good academic record and graduated (B.E/ B.Tech / M.E / M.Tech/ MBA)
- Strong senior level engineering leadership expertise in medium to large size company
- Proven experience in hiring and mentoring world-class engineering teams
- Proven capability of running & managing systems at scale, as well as modernizing them while continuing to drive business value.
- Biased towards innovation /Customer empathy.
Minimum Qualifications:
- ⁃ Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science or equivalent
- ⁃ 20+ years of experience in platform and product development
- ⁃ Proven experience in building high-performance teams and scalable best practices in SaaS/Online/Enterprise Product engineering organization
Leadership Expectations:
- Hands on problem-solving skills at code, design and prod issue triaging
- Excellent verbal and written communication with stakeholders in a matrix environment.
- Building partnerships, influencing and negotiation are critical expectation for this role.
Technical Skills:
- Languages – Java/J2EE, Spring boot, .NET
- Front end Technologies, Mobile (IOS/Android)
- Micro Services Architecture, Domain and Event Driven Architectures
- Distributed Computing, Large scale Databases- Cassandra, Mongo DB, Cosmos
- Cloud – Azure or GCP
- Messaging Queues - Kafka, RabbitMQ
Mandatory Skills
Candidate must possess years of experience in leading engineering teams in a large retail/health enterprise. In addition to strong engineering experience, the candidate must be a people leader who can lead omni commerce enterprise strategy in delivering best in class omni channel platform. A leader of technology who can navigate the enterprise complexity and help in architecting and delivering capabilities that are truly patient health, experience focused and thereby bringing “Live better” part of our vision to life.
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.
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:
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.
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 diversity- 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.
Minimum Qualifications...
Outlined below are the required minimum qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no minimum qualifications.
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.
Master’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.
Primary Location...
G, 1, 3, 4, 5 Floor, Building 11, Sez, Cessna Business Park, Kadubeesanahalli Village, Varthur Hobli , India
